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January 13, 2017 From The Editor's Desk

Roadmapping 2017

What’s on the calendar? Here’s a sneak peek You can look forward to lots of projects from Edward J. Branley

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January 12, 2017 From The Editor's Desk

New Year … New & Noteworthy 2017

Timeline: January 12th, 2017 Yes, I know it’s past when the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square for the

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October 21, 2016 book lists / Books / Friday Fun

Friday Fun ~ Questions for Bibliophiles: Name the book that…

I found this list of questions at Captivated~by~Fantasy, and thought I would ask you to answer them!  It is the

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October 13, 2016 In the News / Literature

‘How does it feel?’ Bob Dylan awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2016

Congratulations to Bob Dylan for his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, awarded today, for “having created new poetic expressions within

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October 10, 2016 From The Editor's Desk / Infographic / Science

Infographic: Science behind writing drunk and editing sober

Thanks to our editing friends in Australia, The Expert Editor, for this infographic. In this interesting article from The Guardian,

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September 21, 2016 Word Wednesday / Word(Less) Wednesday

Word & Word(Less) Wednesday: Tsundoku

September 16, 2016 book lists / Books / From The Editor's Desk / Writing

Umberto Eco and the Anti-library

  “The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is

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September 14, 2016 Word Wednesday

Word Wednesday: Finifugal

Finifugal Pronunciation adjective | [fan’ee-fyoo-gal] Definition Hating endings; of someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moment of a

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September 12, 2016 Books / Chained Libraries

Malatestiana Chained Library – Cesena, Italy

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the

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July 26, 2016 book lists / Books

IMO… 12 Black Authors Everyone Should Read

A friend posted about a novel quiz he took and realized that he didn’t know any of the Black Authors.

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July 11, 2016 Books / Cookbooks / Monday Musings

A Thyme and Place Cookbook by Tricia Cohen & Lisa Graves

  Remember back in April when I went to the book launch for Ageless Women, Timeless Wisdom? Lisa Graves has

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July 8, 2016 Friday Fun / From The Editor's Desk

Friday Funny Photo … Pokémon

Apparently, there was a Pokémon— Rattata — on my hand in Starbucks, and I had no idea. For those who are

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June 20, 2016 From The Editor's Desk

Where in the World is the Editor?

I’m going to be traveling this week, so the usual Monday Musings and Word Wednesday posts may be delayed. (I

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June 17, 2016 punctuation / Quote

Quote: Russell Baker on Punctuation and Body Language

When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly — with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation

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June 15, 2016 Books / Word(Less) Wednesday

Word(less) Wednesday: Name a book that changed your life

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