Interview With Author Sheryl Keen, author of "Journal According to John".

...I grew up watching all the TV episodes and it made me think how limitless space is.

5.  What is your ideal brain food?

Fish. All kinds – Salmon, Mackerel, Tuna etc.

6.  What accomplishment are you most proud of and why?

I am proud of publishing my first novel “Journal According to John” because I have wanted to be a published author for so long.

7.  You want to be remembered for....?

For writing great books, creating memorable works of art and perhaps most importantly, for being a good person.

8.  Of those who've come before, the... (more)

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2012 Black College Expo

...as Dee from the 70's and 80's ABC sitcom "What's Happening" and "What's Happening Now." Wouldn't you like to know that Dr.Danielle Spencer-Fields is presentley a practicing veterinarian in Southern California.She was at the Black College to greet her fans and signing copies of Through The Fire-Journal of a Child Star by Dr. Danielle Spencer-Fields and Cheryl Pelt.The book describes Danielle Spencer-Fields "surreal transition from her life in New York City to Hollywood.Told with humor,she describes her life activities after the show, "What's Happening" ended,until she met with a challenge... (more)

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A Fixated Mind

...I can remember writing down everything from how I thought door stops were a ridiculous invention--I mean come on, someone made millions off of a heel shaped piece of wood--to how bad I wanted to fuck Kelsey Schumann, my neighbor from across the street. I used to call it my All Over the Place journal. It seemed to give me some clarity on my thought process. But now I have nothing, no clarity, no view, and no way to see through the darkness that currently fills my head. I’m so lost right now.

My life has been a rollercoaster. My parents divorced when I was seven, and were remarried ... (more)

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Interview with Abby Luby, author of

About Abby Luby

Abby Luby is a freelance journalist who, for over ten years, has covered nuclear power, particularly issues surrounding the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York. Her articles have appeared in The New York Daily News, The Villager, The Westchester Guardian, The Real Deal, SolveClimateNews, The North County News and the Record Review. She also writes for the Poughkeepsie Journal, The Stamford Advocate/Greenwich Time, Valley Table Magazine, Roll Magazine, Hearst publications HealthyLivingCT, Living@HomeCT covering news, art, food and health. She teaches... (more)

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No, I Can’t

...so many ways the worst in American history, drifts from one nadir to another, he flails around, looking for scapegoats and excuses, looking for his own personal Richard Nixon, if I can put it like that, as an explanation for his failure I note from an article by Andrew Roberts in the political journal Standpoint that he is now is blaming the “millionaires and the billionaires” for blocking the recovery – i.e. tax hikes - , the kind of scapegoating that small people always resort to when in difficulty. But it’s the millionaires and the billionaires who have been taking up the reins... (more)

Tags: barack obama, american politics, the presidency

Review of Jackie O on the Couch by Alma H. Bond

...person. She was a first lady, married to the famous president, John F. Kennedy. She lived a hard life, which includes tragic events such as losing her husband and other family members through assassinations. This is her story, a biography of sorts, fictionalized, written in first person, journal-style. The words and thoughts expressed in this book may be ones she actually used.

The book has an index and a bibliography, so I am assuming that everything is accurate. I am not knowledgeable in the area to comment on the accuracy of the book. What I can comment on is the content,... (more)

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Citizen Journalism vs. Traditional Journalism

I have been following this ongoing debate as to whether free journalistic content on the Internet and real-time amateur photos uploaded from the world’s flashpoints will outpace traditional journalism. No, say the traditionalists: our investigative journalists go deep and cover many viewpoints. Wrong, say the citizen journalists: our information is current and we have no profit motive behind it. We are impartial, counter the traditionalists. You are paid by advertisers, so you have to be politically correct, say the rebels. Our personnel risk their lives in the world’s hotspots and many of... (more)

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The Socialism of Fools

...earth, all in the name of ‘anti-Zionism.’

Yusaf al-Qaradawi, spiritual guide for the Muslim Brotherhood, is a man, Red Ken insists, who is attempting to “reconcile Islam with democracy and human rights, in particular women’s rights.” As Nick Cohen pointed out in the political journal Standpoint, he conveniently forgets to mention Qaradawi’s fatwas in favour of the genital mutilation of girls, wife beating, and the murder of gays, Jews and apostates.

Livingstone is a man who uses terms like Jewish, Zionist and Israeli interchangeably, often in a pejorative manner. ... (more)

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Talking Books with Medical Thriller Author Rudy Mazzocchi

...events are based on what I’ve been personally exposed to over the past 25+ years. I then build the story around these events and support them with as many additional facts that I can identify (for the sake of the individual scenes). The Prologue could have come directly from my daily journal – if I would have kept one back then!

If you could give one piece of advice to authors wanting to write a novel based on fact, what would that be?

Rudy: Try to make sure your readers have an appreciation for which scenes were actual events and which ones of those might be based ... (more)

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Interview with Tiffany Craig Brown, author of

...knowledge and writing skills to gain the position of Corporate Communications Manager for an investment firm where she met her husband. She spent the next 20 years working in various capacities within the communications field.

Tiffany served as Director of Advertising for the Natomas Journal before taking over the role of Managing Editor in 2000. During that time, she also sat on the board of the Natomas Business Association. She resigned from the Natomas Journal in 2003 to fulfill her dream of writing a novel. Tiffany resides in Sacramento with her husband. Her grown children... (more)

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