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Hmmm, about an hour or so I ago I posted in this thread that the site has been running much slower since the new ads over to the side have appeared. Maybe it's eating posts too?

This thread has been going for a decade now. One of you more industrious BARF'ers should mine the data and post the top five authors. In fiction, I try to expose myself to as many different authors as I can to enjoy the diversity of stories and writing styles. However, some authors are so...

Panetta saying Bissonette should be punished anyway: Panetta: Navy SEAL writer should be punished So that tears it, a government bureaucrat wants to punish someone who hasn't violated any laws. I will right here and now divulge my activities related to guarding a nuclear weapon magazine...

There's absolutely no reason why he shouldn't tell his story. Not even Leon Panetta says the book divulged classified information. Frankly, I wish more people would tell their wartime stories, but I understand many don't want to because they will be indicted for braggadocio. I may or may not...

Should I find the occaison to be in the same room with the venerable Howard Jacobson - I will raise my foot and fart. Then waft it with my James Patterson novel. Ha.

A crime novelist was able to catch one of these fake reviewers, and it turns out the perpetrator was a fellow crime novelist: Crime Writer RJ Ellory Caught Faking Amazon Reviews - ABC News

It was moved to another section: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f21/im-writing-a-book-need-some-support-24345.html

The review by "Avid Reader" is still on Amazon and in fact is rated as the most helpful critical review. In the comments section underneath the review there has been one comment removed by Amazon and several comments that are hidden due to their low rating. All of the hidden comments were in...

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there isn't really any music that Republicans can use in their campaigns. It seems as though virtually all musicians hate virtually all Republicans. I don't think I've ever seen a presidential election go by where a band didn't protest against the Republican's use of their music. Musicians just...

LOL! Well, apparently the new term for self-pubbers is e-authors or digital authors. Anyway, a bunch of dumb ones went on a rampage and got a legitimate lending site shut down: How Uninformed Digital Authors Destroyed LendInk | Good E-Reader - ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News With...

A Jane Austen Facebook game???? Jane Austen's Rogues & Romance Trailer - YouTube Seriously??? This has got to be the most WRONG thing social media has ever done!!! No, wait a minute, this is the BEST thing social media has ever done!

Reading is a time intensive venture, I don't want to waste time finding out if a self-pubbed book is going to "get going". Chances are it won't. I also feel like I have to make it clear - I have the utmost respect for the self-pubber out there who is working his or her ass off to write a good...

From the Author's Note at the end of the book: "Whatever the personality and nature of the 'real' Jane Doe, my assertions are the figment of my imagination and in no way are purported to be real, true, or represetative of heer. I emphasize this point out of respect for her and out of...

The Addict (Cafe Noodle online gig, track 4) - YouTube

Quite a write up on the life and times of Gore Vidal: Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright dies at 86 - Yahoo! News The headbutt mentioned in the Mailer obit is mentioned here as well.

Lisbeth Salander, pretty much how I pictured her:

There's a building in my neighborhood that has had a sign on it that says it is the future branch libarary for out neighborhood. I first noticed it, oh about FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. Anyway, if it were open I would visit it and try to support it. Are laptops permitted in libraries? Would the clacking...

Subtitled 50 years of reporting in Washington, it's his very detaled memoirs with precise dates, locations and names. If you don't remember Novak, he's the one who stirred controversy by mentioning the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame in print. He begins the book giving his side of the Plame...

Cool! thanks for sharing. Best thread ever! :stars5: