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Celebrating Sex and the City: The Movie

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Today is the release of the long awaited Sex and the City: The Movie. Fan or foe of the fabulous four (Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda) surely you’re curious if Carrie and Big will actually tie the knot.
To celebrate….make the quintessential Sex and the City Cocktail: The Cosmopolitan (which, even though […]

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Congratulations to author Felicia Sullivan (& Free Book Offer)

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A huge congratulations to long time friend, rockstar and author Felicia Sullivan, for her book, The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here, being optioned for film! So very exciting! We interviewed Felicia recently and spoke about her book, being published and all that entails, and of course,  food.  If you are so inclined, you can read […]

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When You Need a Smile….

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Many of you may not know that Jimmy Buffett of Margaritaville fame is a best selling author that has penned no only his biography (A Pirate Looks at 50), but also several fictional tales. As a writer, I have seen some of the best advice to other writers within his biography. […]

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Balance

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I have been reading the postings about the book, “The Boss in You”. It sounds like a really good read and a good way to clarify your thinking if becoming a boss is on your agenda. Lorissa’s posting, “Define your own success” comments on an extract from the book about defining what counts as success […]

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Friday Indulgences

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As the weekend is almost here (yayness!) it’s time to think about how to make the most of it. So, with that in mind, here are some indulgences to consider (a combination is always good as well). If we can’t take some time over the weekend to veg, enjoy ourselves and occasionally over-indulge, when can […]

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Define your own success

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It’s been a rather busy few weeks so I’m only about 2 chapters in The Boss of You and so far I’m loving it! Although I’ve been my own boss for the last few years, I’m learning new things every day and this book is really helping me clarify a few things. One of the […]

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Embracing your inner Good Boss: Becoming an employer without losing your nerve

Hello! This is Lauren, one of the authors of The Boss of You: Everything a Woman Needs to Know to Start, Run, and Maintain Her Own Business. This post is the third installment of a four-part blog book tour we’ve undertaken to support the book’s release. (To read the two previous blog tour posts, visit […]

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Guest Bloggers - The Boss Ladies

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Back in February I talked about resources for women entrepreneurs and mentioned the then upcoming book, The Boss of You by Lauren Bacon and Emira Mears. I was not shy in my praise, although I had not read the book yet, since I’ve followed these two extremely talented ladies for some time and I know […]

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Science Fiction Novel Appeals to Mainstream Audiences

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Earth has been invaded and humans have become hosts to “The Souls”, who take over the minds of the human while leaving their body intact. Out there, however, are those rebel humans: they are the survivors….
Melanie was one such survivor. She and her brother Jamie had been hiding, resisting being taken by […]

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A Great Way to Spend a Sunday Afternoon….

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I’m an avid reader and like most readers, I have my favorite authors. It never fails that when the next James Patterson “Alex Cross” book is released, I am there at the bookstore on that Tuesday (new books, CD’s and DVD’s are typically released on Tuesdays). When I read that Patterson […]

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Poetry performed

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On 17 April, about twenty people, including me, gathered at Mid-Cheshire College in Hartford, Cheshire for an evening with Jo Bell, the Poet Laureate for Cheshire 2007.
Jo performed a number of her poems from her new book, “Navigation” which has recently been published by Cheshire County Council.
During her year as Poet Laureate, she had to […]

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On the 392nd Anniversary of The Bard’s Death

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The Barnes and Noble near my house is relocating about a block away from their current location and part of that move involves not moving a single book from a shelf, but taking shipments of all new books. They are not re-stocking their shelves and have loads of great books on clearance at 40% […]

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For the Love of my DVD Player….

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I’ve always been a movie fan….it seems as if a huge portion of my dating and marriage life was spent at the movies. The translation of that is movies that I love enough that I want to watch a fifth of sixth time…. So, here is my list of five movies that I would […]

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Forbidden Love in Film

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I once heard that if a writer studies their list of favorite movies, and from that list distills a central theme, then that’s what their writing should be about.  This concept came up in one of my weekly writer’s group meetings, and we chuckled a bit trying to distill each of our own central themes.  […]

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Fave Flicks

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So, I’m going to sound like a bit of a copycat here considering Penny and I seem to share tastes in favourite movies. What a tough choice. Only 5 favourite movies? I’ve actually struggled over this for the past week and my list keeps on changing every time I think about it. So, as of […]

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Five favourite films

If you had to choose your top five films what would they be? By only choosing five it’s quite difficult because you have to exclude so many.

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