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Binary Pie
by Bethany Maines For me, Thanksgiving and the coming end of the year frequently combine to make me philosophical and prone to navel gazing. Just w…
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The 4 Question Interview
Today Bethany Maines uses her blog space to interview first time novelist J.M. Phillippe about her debut novel Perfect Likeness . Bethany Maines , a …
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Genre Bending
By Bethany Maines I read Marjorie Brody’s post yesterday “ Passion Knows NoGenre ” with interest. Marjorie was discussing that she hates being tied t…
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Who are you like?
By Bethany Maines One of the most common questions a writer hears is: Who are you like? In other words, what (famous, more talented, richer, that I …
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I Swear...
by Bethany Maines The title of today’s blog is not facetious. I do swear. Kind of a lot. I try not to in public. Much like public displays of affe…
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Bulletproof Ideas
by Bethany Maines When I started writing professionally it was with the understanding that I was, as my high school English teacher once wrote on a s…
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Reading vs. Writing
by Bethany Maines On Monday night fellow Stiletto author J.M. Phillippe (visiting from Brooklyn) and I attended the local open mic night from Creati…
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Missing: One Brain
by Bethany Maines The Girls all got together last weekend. We drooped around the place like we were wearing white dresses and existing in the opening…
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In Defense of Trees
or, Ah crap, just move already; I'm tired of emailing you and want to have coffee in person. by Bethany Maines So I’m trying to persuade my one…
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Market Research
By Bethany Maines As we have been exploring the question “Who are you like?” this month on the Stiletto Gang, I’ve been exploring what other books in…
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It's Alllllivvvvvve!!
by Bethany Maines It’s here! It’s here! Tales From the City of Destiny is finally available for purchase! After what seems like months of writing,…
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Support Your Local Muse
by Bethany Maines Last time I blogged about identifying ways of marketing a book in preparation for making a marketing plan. My list, to recap, was……
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Puppy Training
by Bethany Maines Recently my daughter learned to crawl. She's six months old, so basically any time she learns something it's "recently…
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Statistical Addiction
by Bethany Maines Hi, I’m Bethany, and I have a statistical addiction. What? This isn’t Statistics Anonymous? Well, I might as well confess anyway…
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Production for Use
by Bethany Maines In the movie His Girl Friday (Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell), a light hearted screwball comedy that centers around a newspaper …
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How to write with pickles
by Bethany Maines I just read a blog about a woman who bought her husband a giant 5’ chicken because they got into an argument about the need for mor…
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V-Day is Upon Us
And You Should Pass the Chocolate By Bethany Maines The ads for that certain holiday have started already. You know the pink, frilly, and frequently …
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Virtually IRL
by Bethany Maines I laughed when I read AB Plum’s recent post about unhooking from the virtual world. It has been a long time since I didn’t enhanc…
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Whodunit? Me!
by Bethany Maines On my recent trip to Iceland we were watching the BBC channel in the hotel room before going to bed (the entertainment value of the…
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Your Vote Matters!
By Bethany Maines T he good news: I have a new short story coming out on Tax Day! Yes, that is an infamously black day, but I thought I’d give peopl…
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