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Adriana Trigiani

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:15 September 2020
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Sumptuous. That is the word that comes to mind to describe Ms.Trigiani's writing. Very Valentine celebrates the author's heritage and the city of New York that is her home, as…

Marketing Books

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:8 September 2020
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Marketing is meant to sell books, which is no easy task in a world where there seem to be thousands of new ones on the market every single day. (And,…

Will North

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:1 September 2020
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Water, Stone, Heart is a modern romance set in Cornwall, England. The tale meanders comfortably through the countryside and through the friendships of two Americans come to the Atlantic coast:…

Outrages in our times

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:25 August 2020
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Book burning is not a new phenomenon. And the equivalent in the digital world is simple deletion. But both involve choices to destroy something that has been created, which many…

Robert Heinlein

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:18 August 2020
Post category:Adventure / Featured Author / Readers / Science Fiction / Writers
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My first science fiction novels were those of Robert Heinlein. I could not get enough of them. Starship Troopers introduced me to life in outer space. The characters written by…

Unlikely Story

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:11 August 2020
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One of the difficulties in writing is the need to make a story "believable." The trouble is that what is believable in the mind of one reader is absurd to…

Dan Brown

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:4 August 2020
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Perhaps best known for The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown does not restrict himself to tales with religious overtones. In Digital Fortress, technology meant to crack codes succumbs to human…

Where do you read?

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:28 July 2020
Post category:Readers / Writers
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Much is made of what we read: fiction or nonfiction, genres or types within each of those, in print or digital form, as books or articles or blogs. But what…

Janet Chapman

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:21 July 2020
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Charming the Highlander combines a Scottish warrior, a wizard, time travel, a wintry mountain landscape, and a modern woman into a Romance that is both predictable in the sense that…

Movie to Book

Post author:Allison Azulay
Post published:14 July 2020
Post category:General Fiction / Readers / Writers

In a previous blog post, I mention a specific actor and film that inspired one of my characters. Creativity is said to come from putting existing elements together in a…

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I NOTICED THE SWAGGER FIRST: that arrogant saunter that said, “I’m irresistible and I know it.” He was good-looking, yes—as emphasized by the tight jeans that displayed every muscle and more than hinted at one in particular. And the chambray shirt open to show off a broad chest matted with jet hair that proclaimed his masculinity.

–excerpt from Bad Twin

GINETTE LAY STARING into darkness in the low cot by the grand canopied bed in which Lady Barton snored softly. To her surprise and dismay, the old woman had roused from her fireside dozing when she entered the room and had insisted on regaling her with more tales of the foibles and weaknesses of the aristocracy as Ginette helped her undress.

Thinking back on it, she realized there had been a subtle urgency in the manner of the viscountess. Indeed, now that she recalled her months as maid-cum-companion, she recognized that she had felt yet dismissed a sense of impendence. At first, she had wondered was it she who anticipated something vaguely threatening, or was it Lady Barton who expected some event? Now, a certainty filled her that Lady Barton’s choosing to employ her signified much more than she had guessed.

But what?

–excerpt from Propositions and Proposals