
This first part of an epic Star Wars type of production is very entertaining, often gripping, and well written. It is also easy reading, which isn’t necessarily the same thing. The characters are strong, and the main ones are easily identifiable and very memorable.
There is only one thing…
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My review of Greg Bear's Eon at NewWaveSciFi.net
There’s something very strange about The Stone, an unknown mass floating near the Earth’s orbit: it’s much longer on the inside than it is on the outside. Even more bizarre, there’s a huge, abandoned city inside, with an interactive library documenting a nuclear war in the near future. Gary Lanier and an international team…
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Escape 2 Earth 2012 – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on December 20, 2011 at 6:49pm —
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Plymouth Colony II – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds - Desserts
...Teris wiped her fingers across tear-streaked cheeks. “It looks bigger than our village.” Her fingers tightened on her brother’s arm and her…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on November 8, 2011 at 6:32pm —
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Zaftan Miscreants – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat and Think With Your Taste Buds – Desserts…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on October 27, 2011 at 6:43pm —
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Sixteen-year old Anna Sullivan is an outsider at her high school. Quiet and shy, as well as cursed with a tortuous family past, she can’t hope to attract the attention of popular Tyler Marsh, for whom she has a crush. How could a girl like her, a girl with a low social status, an alcoholic father and a mother who abandoned her, dare hope anything at all in…
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Added by Mayra Calvani on July 24, 2011 at 1:54pm —
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The Adventures of Larry the Alien – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘Murphy didn’t realize the guy at the end of the bar was an alien until he tried to flag him. The guy had been drinking for hours and was pretty scuppered at this point, but when…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on June 7, 2011 at 7:44pm —
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Excelsior – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘Semminex wondered how many tazer shots Radifen had taken today, since the older Denarian was definitely developing a tolerance to them. He lost count of how many times Radifin stood against the guards, shouting his…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on April 18, 2011 at 5:23pm —
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A Space Anthology Book One – Borealis – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘The Borealis is a hive of villainy where anything can be bought or sold – anything or anyone – if the price is right. Once intended to function as…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on February 26, 2011 at 7:36pm —
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Alert: Stay turned to this channel for a special broadcast, Monday, 28 Feb.
Irina Avtsin will tell us all about the power of the word, “No!”.
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If you’re new to this blog, you may think its title, Notes from An Alien, refers to either me, Alexander M Zoltai, or writers in general being aliens…
Let’s see: The roots of…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on February 22, 2011 at 9:18am —
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“Start with a 500-year InterWorld War. Continue through ecological disaster and the decimation of populations. Follow the institution of a Worlds’ government that helps bring a glimmer of hope. Discover the challenges and failures of unifying three very different Worlds. Explore what it takes to give birth to a lasting peace. This is what reading
Notes from An Alien promises. And, this story could help Earth…”
That’s the back-cover blurb for my book. In the last post, I talked…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on February 2, 2011 at 11:12am —
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Zaftan Entrepreneurs – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on January 3, 2011 at 7:33pm —
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I'll start explaining the title's formula with the word "strange". Its
history shows it meaning, "from elsewhere, foreign, unknown,
unfamiliar".
A Strange Life...
So does reading then
writing then publishing then repeating the process create a life that's
unfamiliar, unknown, foreign, and from elsewhere?
Ask any serious writer :-)
The
reason I started this little explanatory formula with reading is
because I'm in agreement with the folks…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 29, 2010 at 3:18pm —
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Authors often solicit opinions from beta-readers--folks who read and comment before the book's published.
Thing is, different readers have very different opinions! Who's right? Which comments need to be heeded?
In my own experience, with my pre-publication edition of…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 26, 2010 at 11:59am —
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O.K. Last post before my holiday break and I think the title is a real challenge--a challenge for me... What to write?...
I am an author. There is a reality out there (and, in here). Let me take a crack at reading…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 23, 2010 at 10:00am —
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December 20, 2010
Whether you're an author, a blogger, or a butcher you need to gain influence to have people consume your product. Even if you're just a nine-to-fiver with no ambition, you'll have no social life if you don't somehow gain a bit of influence.
Sonia Simone has a blog called…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 20, 2010 at 10:35am —
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December 18, 2010
So, my book gets published. That same day there will be well over 2,000 other books published...
So What?
So, the year I've already spent in promoting the idea of my book, the months spent writing and revising, and the last few months of giving people an…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 18, 2010 at 9:43am —
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To Taste the Dragon’s Blood – Children of the Dragon – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat
‘Mars. Small, cold, foreboding, so close to Earth….. For billions of years it remained that way, untouched and untouchable by man, glinting redly in the night…
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Added by Martha A. Cheves on December 15, 2010 at 5:38pm —
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I wish you were sitting here, in front of my computer, and writing this post for me. Of course then, the title would have to be, "This Is What It's Like Inside Me When I Read A Book." Hey! You could write a real long comment to this post and do just that…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 15, 2010 at 10:45am —
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Yes! It's definitely a job to do book promotion. My book's scheduled to be published in March. I've been promoting it for over a year--way before I wrote it. The "experts" say that's very important these days...
Last post, I talked about integrating Twitter into my promotion efforts. Twitter is a weird space but it has great…
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Added by Alexander M Zoltai on December 13, 2010 at 11:23am —
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