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Book: The Glass Harmonica

Book Reviews » Fiction, Historical, Science Fiction, Young Adult
July 30th, 2007

Title: The Glass Harmonica
Author: Louise Marley
Genre: Paranormal Historical Fiction
Length: 369 pgs

Summary: The year is 2018 and Erin is the premiere virtuosa on the glass harmonica, an instrument that, over the centuries, has been known to make its player and select members of the audience go mad. Though she publicly denies these rumors, secretly she is terrified they are true once she starts to see visions of a girl who does not exist.

The year is 1761 and Eilish Eam, an Irish orphan, has been plucked from her unlucky existence to play Benjamin Franklin’s new invention: the glass armonica.

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Quote: Try, Try Again

General, Writing » Quotes
July 27th, 2007

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work.
- Thomas Alva EdisonSo, I’ve been getting a lot of writing done, which is exciting. If you’ve been checking out my profile page this week you’ll have watched my percent complete slowly creep up to its current position of 49.89 or something ridiculous like that. It’s slow-going, but then, slow-going while writing just about every day is actually good progress.

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Tension Tips

Writing » Craft, Tension
July 24th, 2007

Fear Factor
Get inspiration from your own fears and phobias - if it scares you, the chances are it will scare a good proportion of your readership. Primal fears go to the very route of who we are and can be particularly effective if they’re magnified or exaggerated for the purposes of your story.

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Quote: Failure to Please

Business, General, Writing » Announcements, Fun, Quotes
July 19th, 2007

A writer attempts to show how even a well-known classic author wouldn’t cut it in today’s cutthroat publishing business.

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