Louella Parsons, one of the real-life gossip columnists who features in my Hollywood novel Gossip Column, is pictured here on the left at a celebrity function. She appears to be eavesdropping on the two stars to the right of the photograph, Barbara Stanwyck and Natalie Wood. Louella, together with her great adversary, Hedda Hopper, held enormous […]

Posted on March 31st, 2007 by Pat Turner
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If you like animals, you’ll get a kick out of some of the characters in my novels ‘Snap Me a Future’ and ‘A Mouth Full of Shell,’ published by DLSIJPress.com Shell’s heroine, Professor Betsy Craig, has a parakeet named Fritz. Snap’s central character, Shelby McCoy, has a Setter-Lab named Sam. He is […]

Posted on March 29th, 2007 by Connie Gotsch
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There is something magical about spring. As soon as I see the Bradford pears coming to life and boasting their lush branches and moonlit blooms, I take off my shoes and dig my toes into the rich, red Alabama clay. Spring brings back all of the most precious memories of my youth–a childhood spent with […]

Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by Kelly Clark Baugher
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AJ Caywood’s newest release is a Paranormal eShort titled “The Promise”. For those that love a tale about mysterious occurances, this story will send a tingle down your spine!
Synopsis: 
Marie Carter lost her husband to cancer, leaving her to raise two young children on her own. Her once faithful heart is broken and bruised, making her question her […]

Posted on March 23rd, 2007 by AJ Caywood
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If you think your class would like to read the classics in a more modern setting, Check out ‘Insomniac Tales by Chaucer’s Women’ at DLSIJ Press.
The book came about when several DLSIJ authors decided to each take one of Chaucer’s 14th Century ‘Canterbury Tales’ and write it from a woman’s point of view. […]

Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Connie Gotsch
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In my main stream novel, ‘A Mouth Full of Shell,’ Dr. Betsy Craig thinks she’s on tenure track at a small university in the German-speaking area of Pennsylvania. Now, all of a sudden, the Promotion and Retention Committee is denying her tenure, stating that her morals are unbecoming for a professor.
At […]

Posted on March 21st, 2007 by Connie Gotsch
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Gossip Column : a Hollywood novel
During Hollywood’s Golden Years, the stars of the era lived in fear of two all-powerful gossip columnists, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons. Many a career was ruined as the pair attacked them with their poison pens. I began to wonder what would happen if a rookie reporter tried to usurp […]

Posted on March 19th, 2007 by Pat Turner
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