Review: Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter

Tuesday, 26 January 2010, 21:12 | Category : Book Reviews
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If I had judged these books by their covers, I probably wouldn’t have picked them up, since teenage drama at a snobby boarding school isn’t usually my thing. But when I found out the boarding school was just a cover for an elite spy school, I took a second look. And I’m glad [...]

Review: Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 7:00 | Category : Book Reviews
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From the moment the main character wakes up on a slab in the morgue, Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding had me hooked.
Evy Stone, a hunter of Dregs (nonhuman species like goblins, vampires, and weres), has been resurrected into a new body and has three days to figure out who killed her and why. She has [...]

Chronicles of Amber! With Boris Vallejo Covers!

Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 16:57 | Category : Notes
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I can be pretty ruthless about books when I have to; I  just took about a hundred or so to Half-Price Books so I could actually see the rest of them on my shelves.  But I’m also sentimental about old favorites.
One of the series that I read over and over as a kid was the [...]

SuperNotecard Writing Software Reviewed

Wednesday, 6 January 2010, 7:00 | Category : Software Reviews, Writing
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One of my worst procrastination habits is testing new writing software.  I’m an organizational freak and can’t be content with just opening a new document and typing.  I need a program that lets me make timelines, outlines, and keep detailed character notes as well as all my research close to hand.  Also, I prefer to [...]

Merry . . . 2010: Updating the Auld Lang Syne

Friday, 1 January 2010, 0:00 | Category : Writing
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By far the most popular post on Here to Create is Resources for Fiction Writing, which I posted at the start of NaNoWriMo 2007. I flinch a little every time I see it’s still the most popular post, because I’ve known for a while that it has a lot of dead links.
So as a belated [...]