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June 1, 2015

Author Interview: Herbert L. Smith, HURRICANE KINGDOM

Herbert L. Smith (Herb to his friends) is a native of Glenwood, Iowa, the town that is the prototype for Hillville, the setting for his Starfire Mystery Series. The stories are set in the 1950’s, and Hillville appears to be enjoying a Golden Age of mid-century, Midwestern optimism and wholesomeness--that is, except for the murders. in addition to being well-published …

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May 30, 2015

A book in 90 days: Week 2 #amwriting

For the newest Molly Barda mystery (tentative title: Molly Barda and the Blessed Event), I'm trying the Write a Book in 90 Days method as recommended on the Author Marketing Institute's site. The schedule looks like this: Full outline by Day 14 First draft by Day 49 Second draft by Day 56 Submit to editor by Day …

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May 29, 2015

College students are not customers. Or are they?

If students are customers, then the university is a business. A business’s only goal is to succeed, as in make the largest profit possible, which it usually does by purveying the cheapest product it can at the highest price customers will pay. In this model, tuition should be as high as the school can get …

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May 27, 2015

Summer “vacation”

I’m blogging over at Higher Education’s Premier Online Publication today. Join me over there, or read on:

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May 26, 2015

One Minute Personality Tests – PsyBlog

The Big Five personality framework is well-validated across cultures and popular with researchers, although it's not as well known at the Myers Briggs. The five factors of personality that emerge with some consistency are Extroversion/introversion Neuroticism Agreeableness Conscientiousness Openness to experience Looking over this list, you can see why the Big Five hasn't caught on with …

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May 23, 2015

Author interview no.702 with murder mystery writer Frankie Bow

Thanks to MorgEn Bailey for a fun interview and a great blog!

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May 22, 2015

How Lobster Got Fancy – one of the most remarkable rebrandings in product history

“Lobster shells about a house are looked upon as signs of poverty and degradation,” wrote John J. Rowan in 1876. Lobster was an unfamiliar, vaguely disgusting bottom feeding ocean dweller that sort of did (and does) resemble an insect, its distant relative. The very word comes from the Old English loppe, which means spider. People …

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May 21, 2015

Academic Water Cooler Flashback: The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing

An AWC flashback The Five Stages of Grade-Grubbing Denial ("I'm an 'A' student!") Anger ("You've crushed my dreams of medical school with your totally unfair grading!") Bargaining [1] Depression Escalated Bargaining (including parents going full Boeing Apache on the dean) All of the special snowflakes are remarkably similar! Acceptance Revenge post on The Site That Shall Not Be …

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May 21, 2015

Simulcasting: Technical Considerations

I've been looking for a better way to duplicate full WordPress posts (not just summaries) in Blogger. EDIT: The Blogspot posts are still appearing truncated. Still working on it...

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May 20, 2015

GUEST POST: Writing from the What-If by John Carenen

John Carenen is an author and a professor of English. He holds an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the prestigious University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Signs of Struggle, his first Thomas O’Shea mystery novel, was published in 2012. In the sequel, A Far Gone Night, a late night stroll by the river propels O'Shea into the middle of a …

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