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Title: The Guns of Avalon Author: Roger Zelazny Length: 180 pages Genre: fantasy Plot Basics: Corwin of Amber continues his quest to ta...

File this author away in your memory -- J.T. Ellison 's first book will hit shelves in Nov. 2007. Ellison is one of the founding member...

Title: Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe Author: Thomas Cahill Length:...

Word Nerd met her November goal for editing/revising part of the novel before the end of the month. She thought about getting a jump on the ...

Title: Invader Author: C. J. Cherryh Length: 422 pages Genre: sci-fi Plot Basics: Bren Cameron is barely home long enough for treatment...

Word Nerd's putting down the books tomorrow in favor of turkey and all the rest of the traditional Thanksgiving foods. Hope you all have...

Author Answers this week gets the scoop from Kit Frazier about her new book, "Scoop" and other insights to the writing life. Fraz...

Word Nerd and her cohorts in the Oshkosh Area Writers Club have been working on the club's first anthology. We developed submissions gui...

*also known as, the Revisions to Chapter 8. Word Nerd continues to plug away at the revisions on the novel. This weekend's project was s...

Yesterday, Word Nerd got tagged by Raspberry Latte to continue this post . So, being a good sport, she's obliging. This isn't real...

Title: Twelve Sharp Author: Janet Evanovich Length: 310 pages Genre: mystery/chick lit Plot Basics: Ranger, Stephanie Plum's uber-c...

This week's author is Lauren Baratz-Logsted , hereafter referred to as LBL, because her last name is long to type. She also says on her ...

Word Nerd, as many of you know, doesn't really like reading classics. She looks at as the literary equivalent of eating salad -- not som...

Title: Nine Princes in Amber Author: Roger Zelazny Length: 188 pages Genre: fantasy/sci-fi Plot Basics: Corwin of Amber wakes up in a h...

Title: Once Upon Stilettos Author: Shanna Swendson Genre: chick lit/fantasy Length: ~300 pages Plot Basics: Katie Chandler is getting c...

Title: Which Brings Me to You Author: Steve Almond and Julianna Baggott Length: 300 pages Genre: literary fiction Plot Basics: John and...

... if you're looking for Author Answers, well, check back next week. Word Nerd feels bad about the lack of writing wisdom here today, b...

In case you were wondering, Word Nerd isn't dead. Just covering elections. Also, she's digging out from the dearth of comments that ...

Title: Home to Harmony Author: Philip Gulley Length: 215 pages Genre: inspirational fiction Plot Basics: Sam Gardner is a Quaker pastor...

Another month gone, another post of reading statistics. October's total for books read is 8. Word Nerd has been tracking at 8 books a mo...