Category: Articles & Essays
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My Hometown
This piece is more than a decade old, but the sentiments expressed within it remain the same. An inveterate editor, I’ve tweaked it slightly. A few days ago two young women who grew up Kinder, the small town in southwestern Louisiana where I also was born and spent my childhood, decided to create a Facebook page dedicated…
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Bulwer-Lytton Contest 2011
For fans of really bad writing: Every year since 1982, the faculty of the Department of English at San Jose State University in California have sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, you might recall, was the author of the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, which gave the world the famous (or infamous) opening line, “It…
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So, What Is It?
Every once in a while, I rouse myself to expand my options from the indie scene that I currently inhabit by a return to traditional publishing, so I send off another couple of query letters to literary agents on behalf of V-Squad. So far, no takers. Most haven’t responded at all (something I have no problem with, since I’m aware that that is standard…
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Now Available: V-SQUAD!
I’m very happy to announce the arrival of my new e-novel, V-Squad, to digital bookstores where it is now on sale for the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple’s iBook for the iPod/iPhone and iPad, and at Smashwords.com. A vampire novel set in World War II, V-Squad is more character-driven than a roller-coaster action adventure. And although a real…
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At the Gate
Springtime in Virginia is absolutely gorgeous, with a profusion of nature’s vibrant colors and fresh scents. There’s still very little evidence of it right now, but we’re getting close. I give it another couple of weeks.
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V-Squad
Coming soon to Smashwords.com, Amazon Kindle, and Apple iPad and iPod: V-Squad. A new novel by Pamela Marcantel, author of An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc. August 1943, ten months before D-Day. Vampires in league with the Nazis plan to murder Prime Minister Churchill and the Allied High Command, and the…
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Online Books: 21st Century Publishing
Anyone born before or around 1975 can remember a time when people bought popular music recordings on vinyl records; when moviegoers enjoyed films either exclusively in theaters or in second runs on television; and when book stores were small, ma-and-pa affairs in quaint buildings on or near every town’s Main Street. All of that changed…
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