Sixty-eight years ago this month Joseph Stalin began the expulsion and murder of East German people in what has now become known as the Ethnic German Genocide. In fact,

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A week from Friday I will join other writers in Macon, Georgia, for the 2012 Crossroads Writers Conference. I went last year and was wowed by the quality of the

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  Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in THE HUNGER GAMES. Photo credit: Murray Close   Watching “The Hunger Games” on DVD this weekend made me think where I was one week

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A Conversation with the First Ladies of Fantasy

    Standing L-R, Nancy Knight, Laurell K. Hamilton, Sherrilyn Kenyon and Mercedes Lackey. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, sitting. Four groundbreaking New York Times’ bestselling authors – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Mercedes

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I am still in recovery mode coming off the high of DragonCon 2012, which drew more than 60,000 SF and fantasy fans this weekend to downtown Atlanta.While the “people watching”

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    Adrian Cropley, ABC. Photo: Leland Holder Adrian Cropley, ABC, fresh from serving the past year as chair of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) executive board, talked

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  Behind the Governor’s Palace, home of the Virginia colony’s royal and post colonial governors. This weekend my family and I returned from a fun-filled week in Colonial Williamsburg and

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I spent Saturday hearing from two storytelling experts:  Debra Dixon, best-selling author and publisher of Memphis-based BelleBooks, and Bell Bridge Books, a new imprint focused on paranormal and fantasy fiction

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  The Writing Well’s guest blogger today is Donna Papacosta of Toronto-based Trafalgar Communications. A social media expert specializing in content marketing, social media, and corporate communications, Donna is active

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  Mathew Brady portrait of Rev. C.T. Quintard sometime between 1855 and 1865.            “If it be true that — ‘They also serve, who only stand and wait,’ surely they serve

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