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Wastepa­per Prose is pub­lish­ing a series of inter­views with authors, ask­ing each author the same ques­tion in each post.  The lat­est ques­tion is: “If you could change one thing about your jour­ney to pub­li­ca­tion what would it be?”  My answer: “It would be faster. I set aside my aspi­ra­tions for write fic­tion for fam­ily and …

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I have long had a love-hate rela­tion­ship with Google.  Gmail is my pri­mary email address because of its vir­tu­ally unlim­ited stor­age, and Google’s search engine allows more data options than any com­peteti­tor. On the other hand, like many small web­site own­ers who once made extra income from adver­tis­ing in the early 00’s, I watched as …

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An early review of Invis­i­ble Sun cour­tesy of Whatch­YAread­ing: Oh, the char­ac­ters. The best thing about these books for me is the fact that the char­ac­ters are com­plete peo­ple. With sci-fi, it’s easy to get bogged down in the cool world-building and the neat gad­gets, but David Macin­nis Gill has writ­ten two nov­els now where …

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  The Com­mon Core Stan­dards are rais­ing hack­les again. This time, because the archi­tect of the stan­dards, David Cole­man believes that it inau­then­tic to do pre-reading before teens dive into a scin­til­lat­ing text­book piece. Cole­man is against these meth­ods because he says they’re not how real read­ers read. He argues that peo­ple in the real world …

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