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Printing Problems at Lulu.com

I've been working with Lulu.com for several months now, and in general, I am pretty happy with their work. They are fast, affordable, and flexible. I ran into a snag, though, with print quality. About 500 copies of Clay in the Potter's Hands have been ordered. Most orders have been just fine. One order of [...]

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Crazy Creativity (Minas Tirith)

Creativity=Skill+Persistence+One Crazy Concept.

http://www.matchstickmarvels.com/MinasTirith.htm

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Shakespeare Found Guilty of *gasp* COLLABORATION!

I received this heartening note from my friend David Bratman:
I am reading a small book called Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators by Lukas Erne (London: Continuum, 2008), and found this gratifying, and rather familiar-sounding, statement in the Introduction (p. 1):
"Shakespeare's play texts as they reach us are the result of collaboration. What this emphasis on collaboration entails is a view of Shakespeare [...]

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Reading “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years”

Here's what it is like to read Donald Miller: I've heard all this stuff before, but it was alway spoken so politely that I could keep my umbrella up and my raincoat buttoned, but when Donald Miller says it, I am suddenly chilled to the bone and soaked clear through.

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Inspiration or Perspiration?

I LOVE this excerpt on the creative process from Frank Cottrell Boyce, author of Cosmic. You can read the rest ofthe interview at http://www.examiner.com/x-19497-Madison-Books-Examiner~y2010m1d24-An-interview-with-Cosmic-and-Millions-author-Frank-Cottrell-Boyce?cid=edition-rss-Madison. Thanks to Lynn Maudlin for the link.
 
PW:  The theme of what it means to be/to have a dad in Cosmic is wonderful. Did that emerge on its own, or was it deliberate?

FCB:  No [...]

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Clay in the Potter’s Hands: Preview Edition is Now Available

I will be writing more about my new book, Clay in the Potter's Hands,  but for now I wanted  to let you know that you can buy the preview edition directly from my distributor, Lulu.com, by following this link: http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/clay-in-the-potters-hands-preview-edition/5972187
It's priced at $9.99, but you can get an extra 10% off with the coupon code GREATBOOK.
 More soon.

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Winners Announced: Freshman Writing Conference at Azusa Pacific University

Every year, students in APU's Freshman writing program submit essays and compete in three catagories: best personal essay, best argument, and best research paper. APU welcomed more than a thousand new students this year. Competition? Yea, more than a little.
I'm so proud that one of my students took first place in the personal essay catagory and [...]

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Fun Read for Fantasy Fans: Free!

Remember that for one more week, HERE, THERE BE DRAGONS can be read for FREE over at the Simon & Schuster site here: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Here-There-Be-Dragons/James-A-Owen/Chronicles-of-the-Imaginarium-Geographica-The/9781416912279

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Clay Cover (sneak peek)

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