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There’s a Whip in My Valise

Post author By Daedalus Howell
Post date May 20, 2013
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Last Thursday, we marked the official launch of poet Lisa Summers’ Star Thistle & Other Poems with a wine and music drenched reading at the Epicurean Connection in Sonoma, CA. The evening was a capacity-crowd -smash (and I was smashed as well). Fortunately, I had already prepared the affectionate toast-n-roast below… The late French publisher Maurice Girodias…

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How to Write a Novel: Wait Until You’re 40 and Forget Everything

Post author By Daedalus Howell
Post date July 27, 2012
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This happens sometimes: I?ll get some saying stuck in my head, Google it, and find the only person to have ever mentioned it online was me. And usually in a previous column. For example, someone, somewhere once told me that, ?Novelists are born at 40.? Naturally, the only record I could find of that exact…

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