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Just did a ladies book club for Rocket Man and I expected it to be the normal give and take of any book club with questions about the writing process and themes. I don't know if it was the wine or wha...

Topics: hazelgrove rocket man, literary, housing, death of the novels, suburbs, a writers survival guide, banned books

Book Downloading by Google Inc.

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

Good luck stopping the illegal downloading of books. I have seen my titles popping up here and there and I requested that Google not scan my books. Mostly they disappeared after that but I just saw T...

Topics: literary, novelist, and writing, publishing

The Quest for Writing Privacy

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

It is getting increasingly harder to isolate yourself for sustained writing which is writing a novel. I have no phone or Internet connection in my office but the day to day life of kids and work and l...

Topics: novels shortstories, first novels, literary, fiction, and writing, publishing, banned books

A Great Recession Story

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

Saw my neighbor and some friends hurriedly throwing wood into a pickup truck. I hadn't seen him since he divorced his wife and we all speculated that Ron might have just left the house. They couldn't ...

Topics: writers, novels shortstories, literary, fiction, and writing, a writers survival guide

Television and Books

by William Elliott Hazelgrove

Bill O'Reilly is bringing out a sequel to Killing Lincoln aptly named Killing Kennedy. Henry Holt the publisher says that due to vigorous sales the second book should be well received. Billy uses a co...

Topics: literary. literature, literary, and writing, publishing, a writers survival guide, banned books

Topic: literary