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“Lost Girl”

“Lost Girl”

  If I could place a bet in Vegas on the biggest surprise hit in American television for 2012 I’d bet the house on “Lost Girl,” which debuts on the SyFy Channel tomorrow night, Monday, January 16th, at 10pm (EST).   I spent quite a bit of time in the summer and fall of 2010 at our cottage in Nova Scotia and saw one night on Showcase (the network of Canadian-originated commercial television) the debut of a gothic fantasy/sci-fi series. Within five minutes I knew I was watching would be the biggest independent hit in the States since Buffy Vampire...

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Like A Miracle, Last Night

Like A Miracle, Last Night

    I drove over to Westfield Mall last night to pay my final respects to Borders, the large bookstore with café that had thrived here while the rest of the chain ran red. Without Borders, Meriden*, Cheshire, Southington, Berlin and Middlefield were left...

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Foreign Editions in Spring Cleaning

Foreign Editions in Spring Cleaning

Last summer I closed out a storage unit of correspondence, files, books and memorabilia from my publishing career and temporarily stored the stuff in my living room in CT.  Recreating this website was supposed to glavanize the conversion of  piles and piles of print things to...

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What is Betty and White and read all over?

What is Betty and White and read all over?

Betty White and I had the same editor at Doubleday & Company, Loretta Barrett, and we became her first two clients when Loretta started her literary agency.  Wednesday night I was thrilled to see Betty’s talk at the New York Times in connection with  her...

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If You Bought the eBook of Exposé…

If You Bought the eBook of Exposé…

…at the old price of $4.99, please email us your home address and I’ll send you a little something to make up for the fact that we’re doing a trial to see what the eBook does at $2.99. Just email us at: exposepricechange@lauravanwormer.com, tell...

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Kindle Has Cut its Price Again

Kindle Has Cut its Price Again

Well, the eBook Reader War continued yesterday with Amazon.com cutting the price of the Kindle from $139 to $114. The trade-off is that instead of classic writers appearing as the screen savers on the Kindle 3 there will be ads, so when you turn it...

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JUST FOR THE SUMMER

JUST FOR THE SUMMER

Working with The Fortsmouth Press on this, the last of my backlist to join the electronic literary landscape, has afforded me the opportunity to restore Just for the Summer to the way I originally wrote it. While the story of murder and mayhem in...

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