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Another Kindle Fire HDX

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Win a Kindle Fire HDX, Amazon Gift Card or Paypal Cash ($229 value)   This is a joint AUTHOR & BLOGGER GIVEAWAY EVENT! Bloggers & Authors have joined together and each chipped in a little money towards a Kindle Fire HDX 7" (or $229 Amazon Gift Card or $229 in Paypal Cash). All New Kindle Fire HDX 7" Giveaway The winner will have the option of receiving a 7" Kindle Fire HDX (US Only - $229 Value)   Or $229 Amazon.com Gift Card (International)   Or $229 in Paypal Cash (International)       Giveaway Sponsors I Am A Reader, Not A Writer Feed Your Reader Author Clover Autrey Buried Under Romance Chosen by You Book Club Author Elizabeth Woodrum Author Elizabeth Isaacs Author Fabio Bueno Fae Books Gins Book Notes and Design Author Inger Iversen Paranormal Book Club Hallowed Ink Press The Storybook Kingdom The (Mis)Adventures of a Twenty-Something Year Old Girl Stuffe

Survival Skills for Writing Partners by Ellie Campbell

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Hi, we’re Pam Burks and Lorraine Campbell, the ‘chicklit sisters’ who write under the name of Ellie Campbell.   This always brings up questions, mostly about how we manage to avoid killing or alienating each other.   People understand creativity is an intensely personal thing – as one variation of a famous quote has it: ‘Writing is easy.   You just open a vein and bleed’.   Given the intense emotions and vulnerability the process inspires, involving another person could be considered nearly as touchy as sharing a boyfriend – let’s just say you’d better have some strategies in place.     And frankly we are not the angelic siblings portrayed in “Little Women”: the four of us Campbell girls were infamous for flare-ups, squabbles, fist fights, marathon sulks – all the fun family dynamics we explored in our first novel ‘How To Survive Your Sisters’. But with our fourth novel, ‘To Catch A Creeper: A Crouch End Confidential Mystery’, ready to be launched on March 24 th , we’ve deci

Virtual Nightstand February 9, 2013

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Good afternoon!  I hope you all are enjoying your Sunday.  This week I went to see Sarah Addison Allen but spent most of the time in traffic.  I enjoyed meeting her.  Also wanted to make sure that everyone is aware of the giveaways going on currently:  Kindle Fire HDX , Cover to Cover, and Shadowed by Grace.   Please check out these links.  Here is the nightstand for this week. On the Reader: