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realthog"THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!"
How Authors Keep You Turning Those Pages
A free panel by
The New Jersey Authors’ Network
Tuesday, June 16, 7-9 p.m.
Ringwood Public Library (bus 196 or 197 from NYC Port Authority on 42nd St)
30 Cannici Drive, Ringwood, N.J.
Seven novelists share their secrets:
* Lee Barwood, environmental thrillers
* Peggy Ehrhart, Steven Rigolosi
and Cheryl Solimini, mysteries
* , fantasy & political satire
* Gary Frank and E. F. Watkins,
paranormal thrillers
Come learn the tricks of the trade!
And . . . there's a pub up the road for afterwards!
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Date: 2009-06-14 06:57 pm (UTC)I'm certain it will be a scintillating event.
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Date: 2009-06-14 10:39 pm (UTC)"I'm certain it will be a scintillating event."
You put your finger on it. Folks around here are saying it should put the scintle in scintillate.
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Date: 2009-06-15 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-14 08:07 pm (UTC)Is this what you've been dancing around the Maypole about?
Seriously, this sounds like (as though it will be) a fun panel, wish I could be there (me and my pea shooter).
Sorry . . . I can't help myself.
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Date: 2009-06-14 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-14 09:06 pm (UTC)"Is this what you've been dancing around the Maypole about?"
Nope.
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Date: 2009-06-14 10:08 pm (UTC)Playing hard to get, I see. Is it bigger than a bread box?
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Date: 2009-06-14 10:39 pm (UTC)Oh no! Not the FLYING MONKEYS!!!!
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Date: 2009-06-14 10:41 pm (UTC)"If your name were any redder and any bigger it would put the reader's eye out."
I'm still trying to discover the HTML coding to make it flash on and off like a neon sign . . .
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Date: 2009-06-14 11:26 pm (UTC)you are hopeless . . . part of your charm
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Date: 2009-06-15 12:15 am (UTC)Oo, look -- I discovered the coding!
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Date: 2009-06-15 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 12:40 am (UTC)"Oh dear GOD. So you did."
Good, innit?
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Date: 2009-06-15 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 12:44 am (UTC)So, how long does a person have to stare at your big, red letters before they go all neon-like and flashy? 'Cause I ain't gettin' nothin', honey.
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Date: 2009-06-15 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 01:02 am (UTC)"obscenely self-aggrandizing"
Jealous of my geekly proficiency, are we?
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 01:14 am (UTC)Yes, I found the code for that, too, and am waiting for an appropriate moment to use it . . .
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:16 am (UTC)Hm. I wonder if one could combine the two?
Whatever: I'm off now to slurp mushroom soup while Pam attempts to enjoy the series opener of True Blood. Me, I wanted us to watch the Kenneth More version of The 39 Steps . . .
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 03:44 am (UTC)"Google is my friend."
I 'fess: That's what I did too.
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Date: 2009-06-15 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 04:34 pm (UTC)You think?
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:07 am (UTC)I would expect nothing less from our esteemed Thog.
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:11 am (UTC)"I would expect nothing less from our esteemed Thog."
*bows humbly, yet with a certain inner pride*
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:01 am (UTC)"So, how long does a person have to stare at your big, red letters before they go all neon-like and flashy?"
How odd. The HTML's obviously working for others, like quietselkie -- who as you can see really loves it.
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-15 01:11 am (UTC)"You and Selkie have ganged up on me. I know a load when I see one."
Try opening the post in a different means -- i.e., if you're viewing it on your Friends page, try clicking on the entry's header so that you go to its own page, or vice versa.
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Date: 2009-06-15 01:13 am (UTC)Let me rephrase that:
"or vice versa"
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Date: 2009-06-15 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-14 10:40 pm (UTC)Shame you can't be. However, I'll drink your beer for you.
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Date: 2009-06-17 11:32 pm (UTC)"How did it go?"
Very well indeed -- they had to fetch extra chairs, etc. Sold a buncha books. We made some good new friends, which is perhaps most important of all.
Hm. Not "perhaps".
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Date: 2009-06-15 09:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-17 11:34 pm (UTC)And how much fun it'd be if you could be! Do you ever stray to this side of the Pond?
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Date: 2009-06-18 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-16 10:51 pm (UTC)Have a drink for me. :)
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Date: 2009-06-17 04:04 am (UTC)Yikes -- I didn't realize you were so close by! We must find an occasion to get our folks together for the beering part of the process . . . or, come to think of it, to participate in future panels like the Ringwood one tonight. This was organized under the auspices of the NJ Writers' Group on Yahoo; would you like me to e-mail details?
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Date: 2009-06-18 05:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-18 07:46 pm (UTC)"Oh, I'd love it! (Is it okay that I'm a geochemist, not a writer?)"
I've e-mailed you on this.
(Since e-mailing, I've discovered that indeed the NJAN is open to unpublished writers.)
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Date: 2009-06-18 07:53 pm (UTC)Yeah, well . . .
Books like Corrupted Science attract a lot of (a) angry holy rollers and (b) intelligent kids. I don't want to draw down additional flak on myself by giving the former an excuse to huff'n'puff 'til they've blown up a furor with LJ's owners, and neither do I wish to run the risk of having parents of the latter complain to LJ about the occasional profanity I (or commenters) might use. So it's just easier to have the warning.