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The “God’s Particle” and the End of the Universe
It’s the end of the world as Stephen Hawking knows it, or quite possibly the universe, period. In the preface to a new book, Starmus: 50 Years of Man in Space Hawking’s collection of lectures by...
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“Fiat Lux”– The Discovery of Cosmic Background Radiation
In 1965 Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson of Bell Laboratories worked at a new horn antenna designed for detecting low levels of microwave radiation. They had a problem, they found a low microwave...
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When Also the Universe Suffered from Inflation
“The Higgs universe”. Image: ATLAS, NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) In cosmology, the term “inflation” refers to the theorized rapid expansion of the early Universe. Scientists...
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The Earth in Daimones – An Apocalyptic Travel
“Even with the best of intentions, cruelty is just around the corner.“ The Daimones Trilogy deals with many themes, from survival and the rebirth of the race of man after an alien apocalypse, to love...
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“Christians Beware”– Ban This Book
WEIRD AND TROUBLING – “Aliens. A new super human race? Twisting Biblical scriptures? Totally not what I thought it would be! Plus an adulturous affair resulting in a new species. Christians beware!...
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Aren’t You Worried of Fracking?
“Halliburton Frack Job in the Bakken” by Joshua Doubek – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. As you’re reading this, oil and gas companies in 35 states in the US are injecting...
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Writer’s Doubt Syndrome – WDS
In these last years, I met with many developing writers (aren’t we all). Some have found agents and publishers, others are not even looking for such an experience and swear for the independent...
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The Dreaded Writers Block
Writers who claim writers block doesn’t exist, never had it. Those who have spent days, weeks, and months not being able to put their thoughts down on paper, know it exists. There isn’t a writer in the...
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How Much Do Authors Really Earn?
“It doesn’t help authors to say that 70% of the book market is in print if only a small fraction of that money ends up in authors’ pockets. What we want to see is the combined effect of royalty rate,...
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The Birth of a Novel
A few days ago, I was asked to share the truth about the birth of a novel, my novel. The interviewer suspected that what is narrated in the novel came from real life experiences. She said, “there are...
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Getting Personal … with Simone Pond
This beautiful girl smiling at you from the page is Author Simone Pond. In 2013, Pond released The City Center, the first book in her dystopian fiction series. A fast-paced tale of love and adventure...
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Mobsters, Monsters & Nazis
Well, the time has come to announce Dan O’Brien’s latest project: Mobsters, Monsters & Nazis: a collaboration between Dan O’Brien and Steve Ferchaud, who illustrated Conspirators of the Lost Sock...
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How to read Science Fiction
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 England & Wales License. What is SF? Science fiction has a many definitions as there are people who want to...
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Add Symbols to Add Depth
The use of symbols is one way to increase the depth of your writing. Many a doctoral thesis has been written on symbolism and there are many that still can be written. This post will only skim the...
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What Publishers Don’t Want You To Know
SELF-PUBLISHED: James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941), Irish novelist and poet, was considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the...
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Independent Publishing: On Its Way and Here To Stay!
Shake, Rattle, and Roll! If you’re like me, you’re a little tired of slams you hear against self-publishing and independent presses. They call it a substandard industry, a vanity pursuit, a joke. But...
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Words Without Chains
Many writing teachers urge new and not-so-new writers to free-write daily. Free-writing comes under other names called practice writing, daily writing, etc., but the concept behind it is the same....
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Dealing with Grief
Witnessing real grief is easy. Turn on the news. An Iraqi father holds his dead daughter, a Palestinian woman looks numb as she sits on the rubbles of her house and tells of the hacking of her family...
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Ethical Author
ETHICAL AUTHOR CODE I’m an Ethical Author A couple of weeks ago the Alliance of Independent Authors announced the establishment of an Ethical Author Code in response to a general concern about the...
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A Spellbinding Thriller – Shatter Point
Shatter Point by Jeff Altabef is on sale from 12/8-12/12 for only $0.99! Pick up a copy of this spellbinding thriller. You can also enter the giveaway at the end of this post with no more than a click...
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