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Mark and Lauren are a couple of wannabe children's writers who scatter their hopes, dreams and neurosises around this site like pots of cursed gold. Book reviews, short stories, videos, pictures of kittens, other weirdness and more can be found in every corner, crammed against the buckling pixel walls. Most of it comes from Mark, Lauren is regretting ever getting involved.
The Moving Pictures Bewitch You!
Ah ah ah ah ah ah, me'ladie! You have a woman's website!Mark
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Dark Thoughts
+++Project Babylon+++ +++ Artifact recovered, 12-34-4001+++ +++Recovered from orbit around 12th planet. Outer structure heavily damaged. Inside contained various technology not of our origin. Included in this, several encodings of the below transcript via different storage methods and languages, not all of which we were able to translate. Those that we did translate all resulted in ...Read on
Latest Writing
Amazing Writing Advice #21: How Many Manuscripts Will an Agent Accept from the Slush Pile?
How Many manuscripts will an agent accept? In a year? In a month? In a day? Some agents will tell you that it all depends on what they actually get. They might accept three in a row or none in a hundred submissions. But, not that long ago, I met an agent I know for lunch. She's a really good agent, so good that she asks people to pay her to read their work. After a bottle of vodka and some ...Read on
Latest Reading
A World Between Us by Lydia Syson: ¡No pasarán!
A country is torn apart by civil war as a young woman serving as a nurse is torn apart by her conflicting feelings for two young men. As the battles rage around her Felix has to make her choices in this passionate historical adventure set in Spain. I'll admit historical romance books aren't the first ones I reach for when I'm choosing something to read but I've always had an interest in the ...Read on
