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“Lost Girl”

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“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

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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 without a bookstore. I looked through the windows of the vacated space with a very tight throat. It wasn’t just the demise of the store, but the Walden store that had preceded it, and most of all the jobs of the loyal staff that had smoothly managed the transition from one to the other. When...

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Foreign Editions in Spring Cleaning

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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 electronic records but I fear all the boxes are pretty much still where they were left.  (Since the living room is 18 x 32 feet you can imagine what a MAJOR task this has become!) So the deal is, a box a day may mean Christmas morning can return to the living room this year… The box I tackled this...

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The Alexandra Chronicles

Reverse Order of Publication

Riverside Park

Mr. Murder

The Kill Fee

The Bad Witness

Trouble Becomes Her

The Last Lover

Exposé

Talk

Just for the Summer

Jury Duty

Any Given Moment

Benedict Canyon

West End

Riverside Drive

Knots Landing

Dallas

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