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Cinder Spires Books / Re: So just what the heck is a Habble?
« on: October 02, 2015, 08:37:40 PM »
Quote from: kdx7214 on September 12, 2015, 08:49:06 PM
Okay, I've read my ARC and enjoyed it.  My ONLY question throughout the whole thing is wtf is a habble?

I have not finished ARC, but I've come to believe that "Spires" are vertical constructs with "arches" as we know them.  "Habbles" are horizontal parts of the Spire/Arch.  Perhaps Habble Morning faces toward the sun as it rises.

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GS Book Club / Re: Ghost Story Book Club - Chapters 46-FINISH **MAJOR SPOILERS**
« on: August 21, 2011, 12:56:33 AM »
I'm in the minority here, but the whole thing reminded me of Trek's solution to a writer writing him/herself into a corner -- aliens playing mind games.  In this case, bad angel playing mind games.  Didn't work for me. 

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Author Craft / Re: Redefining Established Paranomal Beings
« on: October 26, 2009, 04:46:41 PM »
Perhaps they are mutated ghouls.

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: "Turn Coat" released April 7, 2009
« on: January 30, 2009, 07:29:21 PM »
I live in downtown Chicago and I don't drive and it's easier for me to get to London than to Oakbrook.

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: "Turn Coat" released April 7, 2009
« on: January 22, 2009, 04:32:39 PM »
Chicago?  Terrific.  Please let the location be accessible by public transportation -- please, pretty please!

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Author Craft / Re: What are beta readers?
« on: October 20, 2008, 01:40:37 PM »
I frankly admit I would be a terrible beta-reader of Jim's work -- too much of a cheer-leader and not enough fact checker, plot hole detective, or "jump-the-shark" scenario, and too much of a fan.  Except for the grammar part -- but that's what an editor's for. 

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Author Craft / Re: New Writer's Group from this Board
« on: July 26, 2008, 04:55:28 PM »
Add another one to group, if possible.  Have a degree in journalism, but never worked at it.  Did a fair amount of unsuccessful creative writing over the years, but nothing recently.

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Signing: Chicago, IL, on April 8th
« on: March 28, 2008, 04:11:23 PM »
Unfortunately, I live in the city and Oak Brook is the "edge of the earth" to non-drivers.  Hope you all have a great time, however.

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: What, do we have leprosy or something?
« on: July 18, 2007, 03:03:27 AM »
Come to Chicago, Jim!  Visit Wrigley Field.  Note that it does not have acres and acres of parking!  I'm afraid that if you don't come, Harry will move away and we'll be left to battle the creatures of the NeverNever on our own.  How scarey is that?

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Author Craft / Re: Why Do You Write?
« on: July 02, 2007, 05:30:56 PM »
I write to shut up the voices in my head even if no one ever reads what I produce.  I write because when I told my mother I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, she told me I'd never be a writer and that I'd have "to work for a living."  I've spent years trying to shut up her voice in my head.

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Calendar Event Discussion / Re: Jim at Moonlight Rising
« on: June 07, 2007, 07:45:15 PM »
Wish he were coming to Shore Leave in July.  And, a second voice for Chicago if only to learn that the University of Chicago is not in Lincoln Park.

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