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October 29, 2007 10:54 PM EDT
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What do a 28-year-old PhD student from the University of Chicago and a 56-year-old horse farmer from rural Michigan have in common? Both of these lucky women will soon have their romance manuscripts . . .
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October 11, 2007 11:49 AM EDT
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The results are in - congratulations to our 5 FINALISTS!
The 5 finalists below have been selected from a group of truly amazing writers, making this a difficult decision for everyone who participated . . .
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October 08, 2007 07:04 PM EDT
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Thank you to everyone who has read Chapters 1 and 2 of In Over Her Head. It was because of the over 100 emails I received from the Gather community that I entered this First Chapters Romance Contest. I . . .
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October 09, 2007 12:19 AM EDT
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Several of us in the First Chapters Romance contest have pledged our Gather points for Home Depot gift cards for the Habitat For Humanity Office in New Orleans. I'd love for everyone to chime in on . . .
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October 09, 2007 09:50 PM EDT
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I’d like to blame it on my wife’s shoes, or even global warming, but when it comes to the Boston Meltdown, the fault -- as usual – lies with my own stupidity.
That’s too . . .
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September 10, 2007 04:59 PM EDT
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I have been glued to my computer as much as possible in the time that I have been home inbetween my travels. (That has only left me with about 3 days.) I have been reading as many of these first chapters . . .
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September 25, 2007 11:26 AM EDT
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When you grow up in a small town, one of your earliest goals is usually to get the hell out as soon as possible. At least that’s the way it was for me and my friends in Corry, Pennsylvania, . . .
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September 18, 2007 11:12 AM EDT
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I admit to feeling a flicker of terror when I first held Fire Bell in the Night in my hands. On March 21st, I wrote a glowing review of the novel's opening chapter in the First Chapters Contest. . . .
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September 24, 2007 12:02 PM EDT
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The results are in - congratulations to the our 25 Round One Winners!
Our 25 semifinalists were selected from an extremely talented pool of entrants. We’d like to thank everyone who had the courage . . .
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September 14, 2007 03:18 PM EDT
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Warning to mystery fans: Throw away your tasseled bookmarks for this whodunit. It's that kind of pager-turner.
The sign says, "Welcome to Maine-The Way Life Should . . .
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September 16, 2007 06:37 PM EDT
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The Way Life Should Be - Review by Tyron Paul Touchard
The last Thursday of November 2004, killing a slow afternoon at work, I told the finance guy that I was going to write a . . .
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September 19, 2007 11:31 AM EDT
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I read Terry Shaw's 'The Way Life Should Be' in a day. It's an easy thrill of a read -- with characters I liked (newspaper editor John Quinn) and intensely disliked (Police Chief . . .
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September 19, 2007 02:38 PM EDT
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Round One voting ended on Tuesday, September 18 at 11:59pm ET for the First Chapters Romance Writing Competition. On Monday, September 24, we will announce the twenty-five semifinalists, and the second . . .
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September 13, 2007 12:36 PM EDT
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Thank you to all the Gather members and my friends and family for helping In Over Her Head advance to the next round! I can't tell you how thrilled I am to be a second-time finalist in a First . . .
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September 10, 2007 02:40 PM EDT
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"There was not an innocent person in the Antebellum South."
It seems like it has become the easy thing to say - to turn times of incredible social injustices and murder into moral absolutes. . . .
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September 04, 2007 11:17 AM EDT
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From FIRE BELL IN THE NIGHT by Geoffrey Edwards. Copyright © 2007 by Geoffrey Edwards. Reprinted by permission of Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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June 27, . . .
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August 08, 2007 11:31 PM EDT
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Hey everybody,
Following Terry's lead, and kind suggestion, I have posted the cover of Fire Bell in the Night. I really like it, and hope you do too. The art department actually designed . . .
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September 04, 2007 11:12 AM EDT
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From THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE by Terry Shaw. Copyright © 2007 by Terry Shaw. Reprinted by permission of Touchstone Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Prologue
It was three a.m. . . .
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September 03, 2007 10:57 PM EDT
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I've always wanted to be a novelist and thanks to everyone here at Gather, Simon & Schuster/Touchstone is releasing my first book Sep. 18.
"The Way Life Should Be" is . . .
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June 20, 2007 09:20 PM EDT
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It’s easy to finish a novel. Take “The Way Life Should Be.” I must have finished it a dozen times in the past few years.
Well, at least I thought I’d finished it. Looking . . .
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The Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition is a first-time author's gateway to publication. One novelist will win a publishing contract with Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, a $5,000 cash prize and promotion by Borders! Enter or read and rate . . .
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The Gather.com First Chapters Writing Competition is a first-time author's gateway to publication. One novelist will win a publishing contract with Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, a $5,000 cash prize and promotion by Borders! Enter or read and rate today.
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