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Off the Shelf: Rachel McMillan & The Blue Castle
Taking a brief break from the Project Runway Coverage on the blog today! I've long wanted to start a blog series featuring authors and the books they evangelize most. I'm delighted that my friend and...
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Project Runway All Stars: Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve (Episode 4.4)
Hey, everybody! Allison Pittman here with a confession: I watched this episode backwards, tuning in to see the runway show, and then watching the entire episode later. And, I must say, the jaded...
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Project Runway All Stars: Designing for the Duchess (Episode 4.5)
'Allo Designers!This week's installment takes us across the pond...but let's not get ahead of ourselves. We open with Alyssa introducing the Promotional Challenge of the Week, inspired by Paddington...
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Twelve Films of Christmas, Part I
A few weeks ago, Melissa Tagg and I decided to celebrate our love of Christmas and movies by putting together a blog event combining the two! The idea grew until it became what you're about to read -...
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Project Runway All Stars: Luck Be A Lady (Episode 4.6)
Allison here: This week’s challenge starts off with deception. The designers are told they will select their own fabric and event. THAT IS A LIE. They will not select, they will have to roll the dice....
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Briefly, Merrily...
Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! Regularly scheduled blogging will resume next week - this week Danny is off for the holidays and I'm joining him. It's been a very busy holiday season with a...
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Project Runway All Stars - Episode 4.6 micro-cap and 4.7 recap: Cheeks Ahoy
Okay, let's do this! *claps hands together*I'll be honest - I'm starting to lose my patience with All Stars. And it's not the designers - there's a lot of talent. But angels above - the judges. What I...
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Project Runway All Stars Recap 4.8: Les Poissons
Hillary here: Allison's heading up this week's recap, with far more wit and clarity than I could manage after this particular episode. Meanwhile, I'm off in a corner playing the blues on my snarfblat,...
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"I never really do anything extremely simple, because - why?" - DmitryConfession: it's been pretty busy around here. Danny returned from an extended work trip in Canada over the weekend - SO delighted...
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Project Runway All Stars Recap 4.10: Always the Bridesmaid
Allison: Hey, y’all--so, this week, totally my fault with the late re-cap from last week’s episode. I had a heavy night of TV watching, what with American Idol, Parenthood AND Project Runway. Oh, what...
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Notes on Jupiter Ascending
The good:1. It's better than Underworld: Awakenings, which was the measuring stick I armed myself with when we entered the theater.2. It looks great - the art direction, even when it's crazy, is...
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A Table by the Window - the gorgeous new cover!
So a funny thing happened...The original Reservations for Two cover used an image that the designers at WaterBrook love for a long time - it was in the running for book one, and when we went in a...
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The Oscars Are Coming, and Other Sundry Things
Shiloh, snoozing against my computer.THE OSCARS ARE THIS WEEKEND. I'm not even remotely ready, and more than that, I don't think I'm going to be able to do my annual coverage. I haven't followed the...
View ArticleCatchy is as Catchy Does
So I shared this on my Facebook wall the other day, and the delightful Rachel McMillan has been complaining ever since that she's had the song stuck in her head.I mean...there are worse things, because...
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Writer's Corner: The Hands-On Approach to Beating Writer's Block
Let’s talk writer’s block today.To really break down writer’s block, you’d need a book’s worth of space – because what we call writer’s block is kinda like Biblical references to leprosy – it’s a...
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The Pear Squares: A Story of Dealing With It
Some days, everything goes fine. Yesterday was not that day.I set out to bake the caramelized pear & buckwheat cake from Amber Rose's Love Bake Nourish cookbook. I've enjoyed several of the recipes...
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Writer's Corner - Writing a Synopsis: a three-step process to getting it done
If you hate synopses, you know who you are. The word gives you the shudders. When you have to write one, you whinge about it on social media.I get it. I do. But there are two reasons why being able to...
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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt: Stop #14 (Pink Team)
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! I am a part of Team Pink, and this is Stop #14. The Hunt begins at Noon Mountain time on April 16 and ends at midnight Mountain on April 19, 2015, so...
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Reservations for Two Release Day Tiramisu!
It's been such a wonderful release day! Reservations for Two is officially out in the world (see purchasing options here). I got to swing by a nearby Barnes & Nobel location (our closest...
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Tales from the Greenroom: Six Minutes on Television
Quite a lot of work can go into six minutes of TV.I heard from my publicist on March 4th that I'd gotten a slot on AM Northwest, which is the local Portland morning show, aired on the ABC affiliate...
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