You Only Review Thrice. Hopefully, I can make it back. Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, just my luck.

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Congratulations! Hard work pays off.

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I'M STILL ALIVE!
I'm constantly on tNBW, but always editing, writing and trying to find the time to give insightful reviews. I'd love to turn the moderation of three groups I founded (with great graphics!) to someone who can get the ball rolling.

They are: SPY WITH US, ACTION & ADVENTURE, HORROR AND THE MACABRE. I ALSO FOUNDED LITERARY FICTION, WHICH CHARLES MODERATES, HOWEVER I DON'T SEE THAT GROUP SIZZLING.

I agree with Marilyn, the old site forum really set the tone... positive and negative, but mostly very positive.

Congrats! Keep writing!

Mason-Dixon Loop

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Reference database for the Age of Trump:

http://www.rsdb.org/races

This is actually a great writer's tool.

dreadaphor

a thing, word, idea, etc., implying something else, but you wish it didn't or wasn't.

can i claim making this word up?

AS IN:

Fiery anger erupted from his mouth, as it had from the orange-haired, wall-building Trumpazilla who'd destroyed unity and cooperation between countries and he had to retreat to a fortified liberal barricade along with David Brock.

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thank you

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Thanks, CJ. I'll load up Illustrator, go for cover templates. Then I'll hit InDesign and I p;probably will have questions. Two years since I Adobed anything (except coldfusion). i i DID SOME INDesign books with swipe pages two years ago.... I'm rusty, and getting rustier with all the rain in Washington. THanks for offer of help, I'm sure I'll need it

max

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obviously I hit a K  nerve here. thanks to all for this valuable information!

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That is the crux of a moment to this new paradigm; it will be a revolution and it may create a revolution. Society will survive, a highly stratified society will prevail, with the rich getting richer; the poor, the middle class fighting a class battle they can never win. The biggie here is Artificial Intelligence, the mechanical aspects of robots are already in action at a rudimentary level (compared to what they will be). 

In many ways the wheat thresher, the locomotive, the airplane were advances in robotics. They changed the world and the world's workers. A.I. ... humm, ... now that might make all of us redundant except the human sex workers who service the very advanced robots, lol.

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http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/d … that-works

on a slippery slope

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http://fortune.com/2016/12/30/amazon-ki … ublishing/

also published in this month's WIRED magazine.

i've been out of the loop for 18 months so most of this is new to me.

renegade jackalope

kindle effects

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Success!
All votes from your email address have been validated, thanks!

I'm playing catch-up with the great writers here. Best of luck to you all and Sol, too.

Thanks for asking this Tom. I've been beating some sense into Prunella and she'll return in all her inept android glory in a new iteration. If I recall correctly, the old site had versioning... Or was it virgining? Can't wait to roll Aphrodite's Rainbow again. And, I can't wait to read a revised version of  U O L 2x.

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Go Ann, GO FOR IT! Congrats.

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Winter survival story (with werewolves, lol).  The Pacific Northwest is: freezing butts, rain, snow, Puget Sound, great artists, trees everywhere, lumberjacks, hunters with macho trucks, elk, moose, bears, bigfoot, and beautiful women in furs (faux furs I hope).

Again, can you please award 1st, 2nd, 3rd cash prizes.

Thank you ~ max

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Anyone using InDesign software for cover creation, book layout? I'm picking it up after a two absence. Help!

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Good man, great reviewer, honest and encouraging. He and Ann Everett reviewed my first novel, THE THATCHER HEAD (no it wasn't about Sharon Thatcher, lol).  I'm saddened to hear this news. I often wonder if and when he would return to this site.  Yes, RIP, Sonny.

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Anyone using InDesign software for cover creation, book layout?

syne lang auld

a quantum physics thing, relatively... I guess