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Inclinations Speaks To The Hidden World Only Few Have Touched

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Added by Steven Clark Bradley on December 28, 2009 at 5:03pm — No Comments

Between Life and Death

Between Life and Death by David Pyle is a new Supernatural Thriller centered in historical Natchez, Mississippi. The main character James Earl Williams has inherited something unusual that he doesn't want to receive. With the inheritance he ha… Continue

Added by David Pyle on December 8, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Holiday Signings and a New Arrival

I'm back from my brief weekend break. Over the last few weeks I have seen first hand how the economy and the increased use of the internet for book purchasing is effecting the normal author book signing events. … Continue

Added by Storyheart on July 6, 2009 at 10:25am — No Comments

Kentucky Derby Upset and Gone With the Wind Wrap

Mine That Bird Rail to Wire Win Dream up all the cliché’s in the book and you’ll find several that will fit into Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. When Calvin Borel looked at Mine that Bird’s past performance chart he saw a mixed bag. Two-year-old champion in Canada and then some unmentionable races in the States. But as he studied the form some things became apparent. Mine that Bird’s losses came with consistency when he got caught wide on the turns. I suspect a wry grin crossed Calvin’s face… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on May 6, 2009 at 1:28pm — No Comments

Nigeria, West-Africa!!! Why me???

So I beat-up on two kids half my age and landed them in the emergency room with cracked ribs. "What's the big deal?" You ask from the side or your mouth, not letting go of the Nintendo cruiser you clutch in your hands. Well, the big deal is that my par… Continue

Added by Joan Peck on April 30, 2009 at 10:13am — No Comments

Jeez! How was I to know???

You’ve been waiting to hear what I did to merit a punishment as extreme as boarding school in AFRICA of all places. Okay, I’m totally gonna tell you. But bear in mind that this happened a long time ago, like when I was twelve. At that time, I guess I must have been a really frustrated kid, full of angst and bitterness at the failing relationship between my parents. How was I to know, at that time, that trying to be a punk was not the best of solutions to an impending family divorce? I was o… Continue

Added by Joan Peck on April 29, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Oz, Wind and The Great Gatsby

Let’s Go to the Movies Part 14 Exhausted! Victor Fleming never got a break between his work on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and his assignment to ‘Gone With the Wind.’ Under normal circumstances, with only a couple of days rest it would have been enough for a routine transition. However, his assignment to ‘Gone With the Wind,’ was anything but routine. The general public had already formed opinions and had high expectations of what they wanted from reading the 1034 page novel. And David Selznick h… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on April 22, 2009 at 2:16pm — No Comments

GWTW on Location, Nazi Stolen Art and Blogging

Let’s go to the Movies David Selznick had some sleepless nights mulling over his vision for the final cut of his Gone With the Wind film. Not only did it involve the length of the picture it involved the grand scope of every frame. Could they make a larger than life picture within the confines of their back lot? The answer was a resounding NO. Selznick tackled the problem and alluded to a partial answer in a memo dated March 9, 1939 directed to Ray Klune, his production manager, Selznick… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on April 15, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

Whaddya know? Meet my family...

So, I am the only child in my family–can’t say whether this is good or bad, but that’s just the way it is. My dad’s name is Richard, and like I said before, he is a physician. He’s really tall (like, above six feet), dark and handsome. When people meet him these days, they keep saying he looks like Barack Obama!!! Lol!!! I guess they’re kinda right, after all, my dad, like our dear Mr. President, is a half-breed too. His dad (my grandfather) is from somewhere in Anambra State, Nigeria (I think… Continue

Added by Joan Peck on April 10, 2009 at 5:30am — No Comments

Stuffs you wanna know...

About Me... Umm…yeah, I’m sure it’s no secret anymore that I was born in San Francisco, in August of 1995. That should make me like what…? Yep, 13 years old as of 2008 when I featured in the novel, FEDDIE GIRL. Being from California and all, you all would think that I’m all flashy, bitchy, snooty and bratty, right? Well, you’re right… Okay, no, I used to be like a total bitch before I went to school in Nigeria. I had like a ‘don’t mess with me’ attitude which got totally worse when my p… Continue

Added by Joan Peck on April 8, 2009 at 6:30pm — No Comments

Hi, welcome to my world!

(From the Feddie Girl Blogs. Copyright, April 2009 http://bernardbooks.com) My name is Carlotta Ikedi, better known as Feddie Girl. I am the major character in the FEDDIE GIRL novel by Nona David. I was born and bred in San Francisco, California, USA, where I spent the first twelve years of my life. Right after my twelfth birthday, my parents thought it would be a good idea to relocate to Owasso, Oklohoma. Dumb, right? I thought so too. Anyways, I spent se… Continue

Added by Joan Peck on April 5, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Stormy Beginning for Gone With the Wind

Let’s Go to the Movies Part 10 Quiet on the set – Roll Camera -- Action January 26, 1939 Lowell V. Calvert Selznick International Pictures New York, NY ‘Started shooting “Gone With the Wind” today.’ David O. Selznick Technicolor was still in its infancy in 1939. All the technical people cinematographers, camera operators, lighting, costume designers, set designers were all making the transition from black and white film to color. David Selznick was a tough taskmaster and didn’t make it… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on March 25, 2009 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Fiji Me with Moon Fiji

Avalon Travel Publishing has released the 8th edition of Moon Fiji, the original travel guide to the 322-island Fiji archipelago. Since 1985, Moon Fiji has been the leading travel guidebook to Fiji. Author David Stanley began writing about the South Pacific in 1979, and over the years tens of thousands of Pacific travelers have used his guides to Fiji, Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa, Micronesia, and the South Pacific. In this 8th edition, the introductory material has been moved into… Continue

Added by David Stanley on March 6, 2009 at 11:29am — No Comments

Gone With the Wind, Jezebel and Twitter

Gone With the Wind, Jezebel and Twitter Let’s go to the Movies Part Five The Making of Gone With the Wind During that same time period a fight was brewing between David Selznick and Jack Warner. A screenplay about the Civil War had been floating around Hollywood for some time prior to the purchase of Gone With the Wind by Selznick International but had not sold. However soon after Selznick announced his intention to make Gone With the Wind, the earlier screenplay found a home at… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on February 19, 2009 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Selznick, Serendipity and Somerset Maugham

Let’s Go to the Movies Part 4 Selznick begins to put the pieces together. One of the problems facing David Selznick during the summer of 1937 was the paring down of the GWTW story line (book 1034 pages) to a reasonable motion picture screening time. He even toyed with the possibility of making it into two films, but that idea was almost immediately tossed out. Selznick was anxious for Menzies to finish work on the ‘Tom Sawyer’ cave scene so that he could put all of his time to GWTW sets.… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on February 11, 2009 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Virtual Book Tour on Parenting "Wild Things" (Boys!)

Please join me and my guests, Stephen James and David Thomas, authors of the new book, Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys on tonight's Virtual Book Tour at 5 pm Pacific/6 Mountain/7 Central/8 Eastern. We will be answering questions submitted at http://www.answersforparentingbo… Continue

Added by Diane Eble on February 3, 2009 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Finding Opportunity in a Teacup

I recently read Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin’s Three Cups of Tea, the fascinating non-fiction account of how Mortenson, a mountain climber and American nurse, came to build fifty-five schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In one of my favorite parts of the book, Morte… Continue

Added by Paula Margulies on January 23, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

David Selznick, Nazi Art and Amazon

Let’s Go to the Movies Fifty thousand dollars: The asking price was staggering in 1935. By the age of 33 David Selznick had produced such films as King Kong, Dinner at Eight and a Tale of two Cities at RKO prior to heading his own production unit at MGM. In 1935 he formed his own independent company Selznick International Pictures. Katharine (Kay) Brown a story editor he had known at RKO was one of the first people Selznick hired to work for his new studio. Ms. Brown would work in New Yo… Continue

Added by Tom Barnes on January 21, 2009 at 3:59pm — No Comments

"Bader Field" ----The greater goal.........

My latest book, "Bader Field" was recently published by Nightengale Press and is a family saga that hits hard with tremendous emotional impact. Everyone who has read it has been moved. I know this work, which took me nearly twenty five years to bring to fruition, will tug at the hearts and souls of its readers. It is my way of paying forward on many levels but especially in an attempt to reach and draw back from the brink of destruction those lost souls who are contemplating taking their own li… Continue

Added by Carl David on December 12, 2008 at 6:59am — No Comments

"Bader Field" The larger vision

My story pays homage to a great man, my father, whose extraordinary qualities made him anything but ordinary. It took more than twenty years of attempts for me to wade through the love and pain of those days long gone, digging into the recesses of the past, to paint his portrait with the everlasting impressions so emblazoned in my being. He gave me so many gifts of life, I cannot even count. Those who knew him were blessed with the love, embracing kindness and innate wisdom he so freely imparted… Continue

Added by Carl David on December 4, 2008 at 7:24am — No Comments