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March 11, 2013 Subscribe · Forward How 'Wool' Changed Publishing As someone who writes apocalyptic fiction, it comes quite naturally for me to announce that tomorrow should never happen. Tomorrow is an impossibility. And yet somehow, I'm going to wake up tomorrow morning and find that a story I wrote while working as a bookseller--a story that blossomed into a novel one serialized piece at a time--is now being released into bookstores far and wide. How this came about has been a story unto itself.  Continue reading... Jenni Rivera's Unofficial Biography Released 'Trainspotting' Sequel To Be Adapted For Film 32 Books You Should Read According To George RR Martin Best New Books Out This Week IMAGES: Cats In Books On Susan Spencer-Wendel's Upcoming Book 9 Dead Authors With Insanely Active Social Media Accounts 9 Dead Authors With Insanely Active Social Media Accounts 9 Reasons You Might Be An Introvert GREGORY WEINKAUF Thirteen Reasons I Adore Douglas Adams Today would have been Douglas Adams' 61st birthday. I didn't know him, but I've read his every published word, some many times over, and I miss him. Here I salute him 13 succinct times. (Why 13? I dunno. 42 would blitz my word-count.) Continue reading... GEORGE WEIGEL EXCERPT: Will Evangelical Catholics Save the Church? Grasped in its fullness, Evangelical Catholicism invites Catholics (and indeed all who are interested in the Catholic Church) to move beyond the left/right surface arguments of past decade and learn a new way of looking at the recent Catholic past. Continue reading... LEV RAPHAEL Planning a Blog Tour? Think Twice. Blog tours are all the rage right now for indie and traditionally-published authors. My advice: think it through, and then talk to other people who've done them, and think it through again. Continue reading... TEDDY WAYNE Interview With Leigh Newman, Author of Still Points North Newman writes beautifully and vividly about growing up as a child of divorced parents -- shuttling between fishing and floatplanes with her father in Alaska and a less rugged life with her mother in Baltimore -- and its effects on her adult relationships. Continue reading... VALERIE STIVERS-ISAKOVA 8 Best ('Worst') Mother-Daughter Memoirs Oh, the daughter-memoir, fraught thing. How do you write honestly about your mother when your mother is still alive, part of your life, and probably not going to appreciate the portrait? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here.