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Applications for grants in excess of $100,000 in the aggregate authorized to be funded under this chapter, other than grants primarily for the purpose of conducting dissemination or conferences, shall be reviewed by panels of experts which shall include a majority of non-Federal members. Non-Federal members may be provided travel, per diem, and consultant fees not to exceed the daily equivalent of the rate of pay for level 4 of the Senior Executive Service Schedule under section 5382 of title 5.
Source(Pub. L. 93–112, § 18, formerly § 16, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 403,Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1114; renumbered § 18,Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 402(a)(1)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–412.)
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Kentucky native Mike Angel had been interested in woodworking for years but only took it up earnestly after retiring from a fascinating career.
After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in the early 1960s, Mike worked as a trooper with the Kentucky State Police out of Pikeville, Kentucky. In 1970, he became a special agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of the U.S. Treasury Department and, during his career, was stationed in a variety of cities throughout the United States.
In 1987 Mike seriously injured his leg during a drug raid and he returned to Kentucky to recuperate at his parents' home. During this time, he refinished some hickory-bottom chairs that his grandfather had made years before. This project inspired Mike to study old-fashioned Appalachian designs, and experiment with woodworking techniques that led to making hickory-bottom chairs from scratch.
After Mike retired in 1994, he and his wife settled in Laurel County, Kentucky. Mike decided it was time to "get serious" about his chair-making. He created his own line of traditional "mule-ear" chairs, so-called because of the way the back posts of the chairs stick up, like ears on a mule.
What was originally a leisurely pursuit has developed into a thriving business. Mike's furniture is in such demand that he has drawn in not only members of his own family but those from the community, such as craftspeople, chair-weavers, wood carvers, sawyers, and loggers, to apply their skills to the various stages of business and furniture construction.


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MADISON, WI (WTAQ) - Experts say the dangers of talking and driving are clear, but many teenagers feel impervious.
Even if their distracted driving doesn't cause an accident, their wallets could be hurt.
A new state law taking effect next Thursday will make it illegal for teenagers to talk on their cell phones while they are driving.
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for American teenagers.
The new law prohibits anyone with a probationary license or instructional permit from talking on a cellular phone when they are driving.
Also included are adults with suspended or revoked licenses, and any new Wisconsin resident under the age of 21, or with less than three years' driving experience.


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This is the tale of Glenn Duffie Shriver, badly told:
Thanks, FBI.
I guess.
Don't you think it's time for you to join WillieBrownGavinNewsomEdLee's somewhat corrupt "City Family?"
Sure, why not?
You'll get to share beer (or rather, steal beer or rather, actually, IRL, pour out beer) with San Francisco's lovely citizens:
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And after a while you'll get to show potential recruits the intricacies of law enforcement.
Now, I'm not saying that this application process is easy, not at all.*
But I am saying that this might be for you:
"Northern Station Newsletter
Captain Ann Mannix
August 25, 2011 #11-36
Captain's Comments
Finally, we are going to start actively hiring new police officers, starting the application process tomorrow. If interested please log onto www.jobaps.sf and create an applicant account which then allows you to apply for the position of entry level police officer. For further information on the position go to www.sfpdcareers.com. On-line applications will be accepted for one week or until we receive 2500 applications. If you have any interest I would encourage you to apply."
So, watcha waiting watcha waiting watcha waiting for?
*Like, just try to get the those links to work – that'll be a test of how motivated you are. Figure it out, find a way to apply before they get 2500 aps.
Another great one from Shorpy.
December 1941. Enlisting in the Marines. Recruiting office, San Francisco:
Nitrate negative by John Collier, Office of War Information


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When looking at the plethora of wearable devices unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, other companies certainly followed that principle. A walk around the show floor saw startups such as Martian and Pebble and major players such as LG and Sony introduce new wearable gadgets. And in most cases, they offered either a single benefit, such as health tracking, or a handful of clearly defined features, such as notifications from a paired phone.
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In Janet Chapman's Spellbound Falls series, time-traveling Scottish Highlanders (you read that right) keep popping up in a small Maine town. Luckily for the women of Spellbound Falls, they're a handsome bunch. The Highlander Next Door, the latest novel in the series, focuses on Birch, a no-nonsense woman who harbors no desire for a man in her life. Watching her mother's four divorces and running a women's shelter has made her swear off men for life. The case for males is not helped by her gruff, stubborn neighbor, Niall MacKeage. But that Scottish brogue is quite charming, and as Birch discovers, Niall is not at all like other men.
In this blog post, Chapman discusses how her foray into time travel began—and how much fun she's had on the journey.
When my agent set out to sell my first book, Charming the Highlander, I asked her to please tell the editors she submitted it to that this time-travel gig was a one-time thing, as I really wrote contemporary romance and didn't want them to expect more magical stories from me. (If only I'd been listening at the time, I would have heard the Universe laughing its ethereal head off.) But in my mind even that book was a contemporary, because besides the prologue, the entire story took place in 21st-century Maine.
I think readers believe authors are deliberate creators—which may be true for many—but for me, the characters are in control. They suddenly show up in a book and start demanding a book of their own, and no matter how outrageous their stories are, I am compelled to tell them.
Good Lord, I actually rearranged my wild and beautiful state of Maine! Well, it was really Maximilian Oceanus who moved those mountains and turned a large freshwater lake into an inland sea, but I wasn't about to argue with the powerful magic-maker. And anyway, the Bottomless Sea gave me an even more amazing venue for my stories.
Wait. There. Do you hear that? The Universe is still laughing.
And so we come to Niall MacKeage, a 12th-century highlander who was brought forward in time as one of six suitors for Maximilian's sister, Carolina. Niall wasn't really interested in marrying Carolina; he just wanted to see if the fantastical tales his long-lost, time-traveling father had told him were true. And becoming Spellbound Falls' chief of police gave the displaced warrior a good excuse to stay, for not only did Niall embrace modern technology, he also found himself attracted to 21st-century women—and to Birch Callahan in particular, the pint-sized spitfire hired to run the town's new women's shelter.
I often feel like nothing more than a stenographer furiously taking notes.
Oh, yeah; instead of leaving me alone, the magic seems to be ramping up. But I suppose that's what I get for letting my fictional characters run the show. Yes, I know they're not really real, but I simply don't have the heart to tell them. And besides, they keep providing me with all sorts of wonderful—albeit outrageous—stories.
I silently chuckle when people say they're amazed by my imagination, because what they don't know is that instead of being a deliberate creator, I am merely. . . heck, I often feel like nothing more than a stenographer furiously taking notes. Oh, sometimes my characters let me make suggestions, and sometimes they even use them. But for the most part I graciously do their bidding, since they in turn graciously allow my name to appear on the cover of their books.
So with that being said, I invite you to come join me in Spellbound Falls by way of The Highlander Next Door, and let's see if I can't persuade you that the magic truly is real. Okay, the mountain-moving part might be a bit of a stretch. But all that other stuff in my stories? Well, I can't imagine anything more real than the magical power of love.
Thanks, Janet! See more about the author on her website, or find The Highlander Next Door online: BAM | B & N | Indiebound | Amazon
Laird Hunt's newest historical novel centers on a particularly under-the-radar aspect of the Civil War.
In Neverhome, Hunt focuses on an Indiana farmer's wife, Constance, who disguises herself as a man in order to enlist with the Union Army. Her fearless nature, stoicism and marksmanship quickly impress her peers, and she earns respect on the battlefield.
However, this game of keeping up appearances becomes too difficult after a trip to the nurse, and Ash is exposed to her superiors: Her mesmerizing, heart-rending journey from her jail cell back to her beloved Bartholomew is sure to absolutely captivate readers.
Watch the Ken Burns-inspired narrative trailer below:
What do you think, readers? Are you interested in checking out Neverhome?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in another era? Scientists have yet to create a time machine, but until then, we've got the next best thing: books! From medieval mysteries to WWII dramas, we've put together a list of books published this year that will let you escape to another time.
The life of Laura Bridgman, the first person to communicate using finger spelling, is explored in this compelling novel set in the mid-1800s. Without the ability to hear, see or taste, Bridgman was confined solely to the sense of touch, and both her inner life and her relationships were intensely complex. But despite being a celebrity during her lifetime, Bridgman has largely been forgotten by history. Thankfully, Elkins skillfully revives the memory of this pioneering woman and her singularly fascinating world.
The mind of Tom Robbins is a world in and of itself, and we're invited to journey through it in his memoir, Tibetan Peach Pie. Detailing his childhood during the Great Depression, his time as a soldier in Korea and his experiences during the LSD-fueled counterculture movement, the author of the classic Even Cowgirls Get the Blues guides the reader through his life with a sly, playful voice. You can't help but be taken along for the ride.
In 1527, 600 men set sail from Spain to explore the New World. By the end of the year, only four men remained alive. Among the survivors was a Moroccan slave named Mustafa, renamed Estebanico by his Spanish captors. The four men wandered the wilderness for eight years before finally reaching a Spanish settlement, yet Estebanico's account of their journey was never written down. In Lalami's meticulously researched novel, she imagines what the first black explorer of the New World might have to say about the years spent searching for civilization—and what he found when he finally reached it.
If you're looking for a fat, juicy tome to get lost in, this novel, set in 1794 England, might be it. Bent on marrying off their daughters to wealthy suitors, four oblivious high-society men hire a pianoforte instructor to teach the girls the art of the newest musical craze. Little do they know, the musician has an agenda of his own and is instructing their daughters in quite a bit more than pianoforte . . .
Take a relaxing trip to Walden Pond, literary oasis of Henry Thoreau. In his biography of the famous poet, Sims paints a lovely portrait of the delightfully zany father of nature writing. You might be inspired to leave the cumbersome modern world behind and retreat to your own Walden Pond . . . or at least go for a hike.
Furst's masterfully executed spy novel unfolds as the world is on the cusp of WWII, capturing the tumultuous, dangerous moment before all-out war enveloped Europe. Recruited to secretly fight the agents of fascism, a truly diverse crew carries out clandestine deeds across Nazi-infested Europe in this fast-paced, thrilling novel.
The 17th-century Medici court of Florence is the scene for this tale of a talented wax sculptor, Zummo, attempting to outrun his past. While completing a bizarre commission from the Grand Duke, Zummo finds love with a mysterious young woman. But of course, scandal is not far behind, and dangerous secrets lurk in the shadows of the beautiful city.
Reeling in the aftermath of WWI, Frances Wray and her mother decide to take on a young married couple, Leonard and Lillian Barber, as tenants in their South London apartment. The lonely Frances is delighted when she becomes fast friends with the affable Lillian, and Frances' confession that she is attracted to women feeds the flames of their relationship. But as their infatuation grows, things take a dark and deadly turn.
She's got (arguably) the most famous face on the planet. But who is the woman in da Vinci's Mona Lisa? Experts disagree, but many believe the painting depicts Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo, the Florentine wife of a wealthy merchant. Through public records and informed guesses, Hales is able to reconstruct a probable portrait of her life—a life perhaps just as fascinating as her portrait.
Inspired by a real unsolved murder, Frog Music is set in San Francisco during the muggy, disease-ridden summer of 1876. When her cross-dressing friend is murdered, Blanche delves into the shady underbelly of the city, determined to find the killer.
Fast-forward 60 years, and San Francisco is on the upswing. In the talented Lisa See's latest novel, three women of Asian descent with very different backgrounds form a seemingly unbreakable bond working as dancers at the Forbidden City nightclub. But as their fame grows and the world around them begins to change, their friendship is tested.
King Richard II is nervous—and with good reason. Whisperings of a dangerous book are floating around 14th-century London. Within this book are the accurately predicted deaths of every king of England—including him. Rulers, deceit, prophecies and every English major's best friend, Chaucer, all make an appearance in this satisfying medieval mystery. Holsinger, a renowned medieval scholar, lends his formidable knowledge to the novel, giving it a well-deserved air of authenticity.
Perhaps you would like to revel in these last sweltering days before fall. If that's the case, this evocative memoir will take you back to midcentury Georgia as travel writer Mayes unspools memories of her early life, filled with the chaos and love of a dysfunctional family. Highlighting the beauty and pain of her Southern childhood—not to mention the steamy afternoons—Mayes has written the perfect companion book to a tall glass of iced tea.
Spanning decades, this novel inspects the evolution of love and evil within a group of friends. Paris in the 1920s was about as fabulously decadent as you can get, and within the city's glittering night life, a group of misfits and strange geniuses finds acceptance and encouragement. But as the world takes a truly horrific turn, the stunning characters within this novel must turn with it, leading them to unexpected and devastating choices.
The Golden Age of Amsterdam comes to life in this wonderfully imaginative debut. When country girl Nella marries a much-older merchant and moves to Amsterdam, she's disappointed to find that life in her new household is incredibly dull and austere. Her husband seems to take no interest in her, and his severe sister runs the household with an iron fist. So Nella is surprised when her husband orders an expensive cabinet-sized replica of their home as a gift. She commissions a miniaturist to furnish her little home, but soon the miniaturist's work reveals dark secrets about the odd family she has married into.
If you think it's hard to get a book published these days, try publishing in Cold War Russia. The Zhivago Affair details the travails author Boris Pasternak, had to endure in order to get his now-classic novel, Dr. Zhivago, published. It's a fascinating tale of intrigue, the CIA (yes, really) and how one phenomenal book helped sow seeds of dissension in Soviet Russia.
Set in a North Carolina coastal town as the Revolutionary War draws to a close, Smith's debut follows three generations of a troubled family as they struggle to cope with loss. The memory of the well-loved, deceased Helen haunts the family she left behind, affecting each family member in complex ways. This novel eloquently conveys how intrinsically connected love and grief truly are.
If you like your historical novels with a bit of a biting edge, this novel drips with dark Gothic mystery. When Charlotte's brother goes missing within the elite world of Victorian society, she is determined to find him. But she soon discovers that there is something supernaturally sinister afoot, and that high society might be more than a little connected to the underground.
Need an escape from the late-summer heat? Picking up a book with "Ice" in the title might be a good route. In his gripping nonfiction account of the ill-advised 1879 expedition to the North Pole, Sides follows the shipwrecked crew of the USS Jeannette as they struggle to survive the Arctic tundra. This vivid nonfiction thriller is guaranteed to leave you chilled—in more ways than one.
Do you see any books that make you want to hop in a time machine? Let us know in the comments!
Katy Simpson Smith's eloquent debut, The Story of Land and Sea, follows three generations of a family as they struggle, each in their own way, to come to terms with the premature loss of a young woman, Helen. Set in the twilight of the Revolutionary War, this story of love and grief follows those Helen left behind— her father, husband, daughter and former slave. Our reviewer writes that the novel is "a striking debut novel that reads like poetry and will linger like mythology." (Read the full review here.)
We were curious about the books Smith has enjoyed reading, so we asked her to recommend three favorites.
I got to hear Trethewey read from her work at the New Orleans Public Library a couple of years ago, and it was so inspiring to see a fellow Mississippian tackling our past with such bravery and beauty. I read a lot of poetry, but rarely does it reflect my own complex corner of the world. Reading is about accessing new lands, unimagined lives—that's the pleasure it gives us, especially when we find the familiar there—but sometimes it feels good to see your own self clearly in the mirror of the words. Trethewey weaves the past with the present, blacks with whites, and concocts a nuanced version of race and history that reminds us of all the wrongs that still need addressing. The poem recounting the trials of the all-black Louisiana Native Guards during the Civil War is alone worth the price of admission. And Trethewey was the U.S. Poet Laureate, which we'll be telling our Mississippi kids for generations to come.
This slim book was found at a used bookstore's going-out-of-business sale (alas), read by my mother, and then passed along to me. It's a charmingly wry narrative about a small community of people living on barges on the Thames in the 1960s, and if you have any preconceptions about what kinds of people live on barges, Fitzgerald will overturn them. One of her many talents is animating characters with no more than a few keen swipes of description; thus, in under 150 pages, we can know a half-dozen characters intimately. My favorites are the two young sisters, one half-wild and one surprisingly demure, who run from barge to barge across unsteady planks and spend their evenings stopping up leaks; and their cat Stripey, who stalks the boats "in a kind of nautical crawl, with her stomach close to the deck, as though close-furled and ready for dirty weather." There is as little plot as there are stable dwellings, but the humor alone, both mordant and sweet, makes this a book to cherish.
I seemed to have missed this when it was assigned in high schools across America (though I also missed junior-year English altogether, so maybe that's where it was lurking), but I finally got around to this masterwork of race and political identity. (I blame the delay on its forbiddingly tiny typeface in my 1952 paperback edition.) While it didn't hold my love throughout, especially after the narrator left the surreal and provocative South, the first few chapters made me entirely re-imagine what fiction can do, what images a writer can present to a reader, and with what effect. The scene where boys are forced to scrabble for fake coins on an electrified rug! After almost every page, I had to stop and say, "Katy, you need to be a better writer." This reaction, which is regular, is what makes me adore reading so.
Thank you, Katy! Have you read any of her suggested picks?
(Author photo by Elise Smith)
August is First Fiction Month on BookPage.com! Click here to read all our First Fiction coverage on the blog; click here to read our most recent debut novel reviews.
First Fiction Month may be winding down, but not to worry—there are plenty of new voices to look forward to this fall. Here's a sneak peek at some of our most anticipated debuts for next season.
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas (S&S). Thomas sold his debut for a startling $1 million—not a bad payday for an English teacher. It's the story of an Irish-American family chasing the American dream across three generations that's already being compared to The Corrections. Worthy? We'll find out.
A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride (Coffee House Press). Published in the Commonwealth last year, this first novel is a challenging stream-of-consciouness narrative, told from the perspective of a young girl, that proved a tough sell: McBride spent most of a decade shopping it around before finding a home with a small press. But its vital, visceral voice—one UK reviewer called the book "an instant classic"—earned it the Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction for 2014. Will it be equally lauded by American critics?
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (Norton). Set in the rigid society of 17th-century Amsterdam, this jewel box of a debut follows a young wife after her marriage to a wealthy merchant. But when her new husband gives her gives her a miniature replica of their home, strange things start happening . . .
Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre (Bloomsbury). Though many novels have come from the Iraq War, Pitre's stands out as one of the first to include the Iraqi perspective as well as that of the occupying forces, demonstrating once again that despite appearances, there are no winners when it comes to conflict.
The Story of Land and Sea by Katy Simpson Smith (Harper). Smith's heart-rending debut takes Revolutionary-era North Carolina as its setting, where three generations of women and the men they love contend with a very imperfect world. Smith excels at depicting not only how characters from this time lived, but how they thought, how they view the world through the lens of religion and myth.
How to Build a Girl by Catlin Moran (Harper). Humorist, feminist and pop culture icon Catlin Moran wades into the waters of fiction with her debut, a semi-autobiographical look at a young girl's coming-of-age in the Midlands in the 1980s.
Gretel and the Dark by Eliza Granville (Riverhead). Fairy tales and psychoanalysis combine in this darkly compelling, magical debut that follows twin storylines: one about a girl in 1899 Vienna who is certain she is a machine, and the other about another child living 40 years later who clings to the stories of the Grimm brothers to shut out the approach of war.
The Ploughmen by Kim Zupan (Holt). A 77-year-old hired gun awaiting trial strikes up an unlikely friendship with a lawman just starting out in Zupan's haunting Western, set in the author's native Montana.
Crooked River by Valerie Geary (Morrow). Fans of writers like Tana French and Laura McHugh will enjoy Geary's atmospheric first novel, set in the Pacific Northwest. Two young girls find a body in the river, and their father is the prime suspect in the murder. Can they prove his innocence?
If I Knew You Were This Beautiful, I Never Would Have Let You Go by Judy Chicurel (Amy Einhorn). Composed of linked short stories, this first novel follows a young woman's coming of age in the 1970s and should please fans of Cowboys Are My Weakness or The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing.
What debuts are you looking forward to this year? Tell us in the comments!
American cuisine is a hard thing to pin down, owing to our status as a cultural and culinary melting pot. But Elena Rosemond-Hoerr and Caroline Bretherton have collected an impressive set of recipes they feel represent it best in The American Cookbook: A Fresh Take on Classic Recipes.
Tales abound about who invented this sandwich, with Arnold Reuben of Reuben's Delicatessen in New York City and Reuben Kulakofsky, a grocer from Omaha, Nebraska, both strong contenders. The first reuben was probably made in the early 20th-century, and by 1956, it had won "best sandwich" in a contest sponsored by the National Restaurant Association.
This sandwich is piled high with classic deli fillings, contrasting sweet, sour and salty flavors.
Serves 4
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 10 mins
For the Russian dressing
1. In a bowl, mix together the mayonnaise, horseradish, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce. Season well.
2. Spread the dressing over each slice of bread. Layer 4 slives of bread with 2 slices of cheese, 3-5 slives of beef, sauerkraut and 2 more slices of cheese. Top with the remaining slices of bread.
3. Melt a pat of butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Fry each sandwich for 1-2 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Serve your Reuben hot with refrigerator pickles (see p. 248) and kettle-cooked potato chips.
The American Cookbook by Elena Rosemond-Hoerr and Caroline Bretherton © 2014 DK Publishing. Photographs © Stuart West. Read our review of this book.
August is First Fiction Month on BookPage.com! Click here to read all our First Fiction coverage on the blog; click here to read our most recent debut novel reviews.
Today's guest post comes from writer Shelly King, whose first novel, The Moment of Everything, goes on sale next week. It's set in a used bookstore, where former Silicone Valley employee Maggie has found part-time work after the failure of the tech startup she was working for. When Maggie finds a lovers' conversation written in the margins of a used copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover, she embarks on a quest to discover who they were—and what happened to their romance.
In a guest post, King—who moved to California from the South and once worked for a Silicon Valley startup herself—explains the mystery of found objects and shares some of her favorite found objects in literature.
I was 15 the first time I found a letter in a used book. I was in Montana visiting family and had wandered into a used bookstore. There I found Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters. I hadn't read Hemingway yet, but I knew he was an important writer and that he'd spent a lot of time in Africa. I opened the front flap and saw it was covered in writing. It was the letter from a father to a young boy.
The details are fuzzy, but I remember the father was traveling in Africa. I thought it was nice that he was sending his son a book about another man who had been to Africa. He missed his son. He signed the letter "Papa." I fell in love with this letter. But I didn't buy the book. I didn't have much money, so I left it behind. But that letter stayed with me. I thought of it for days, wishing that I'd bought that book, not for the letters of Hemingway, but for that letter written in the book. I finally told my mother about it, and she took me back to the bookstore. But the book was gone.
About 15 years after I first found that letter from the father in Africa, I was in Seattle at another used bookstore where I saw a copy of Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters. I smiled thinking of that other copy I found years ago in Montana. I opened up the front flap, and there it was—the handwritten letter from a father traveling in Africa to his son. Only this time I was more familiar with Hemingway, whom I now knew was also known as Papa. And this time, I noticed the letter was dated decades before this book was published. When I looked closer, I realized the letter wasn't written in the book. It was a reproduction of a Hemingway letter that decorated the inside flap.
Even though the letter was not what I thought it was, I'm grateful for my misunderstanding. It started a lifelong search for treasures of the past in old books. Over the years, I've found drawings, letters, postcards, ticket stubs, restaurant receipts, photographs, recipes, and inscriptions. The people who owned these books before left a bit of their lives in them. I love not just the story the author intended but also the story of the book itself.
My favorite novels (and one play!) that have someone discovering something in a book:
Thanks, Shelly! Visit her website for more on The Moment of Everything, or find it online: BAM | B & N | Indiebound | Amazon
The fast-paced world of romance publishing is always offering up great new authors to discover. As part of our #FirstFictionMonth coverage, we're spotlighting three new voices who are each debuting in their own way this year.
Jennifer Ryan will be making her print debut with At Wolf Ranch (on sale February 24, 2015), the first in her thrilling romantic suspense series, Montana Men. The novel focuses on Ella Wolf as she flees to her family's ranch, certain that the man who murdered her sister is now after her. Luckily for Ella, a ruggedly handsome cowboy is bent on protecting her from the killer.
Despite finding eBook success with her best-selling The Hunted and The McBrides series, Ryan is excited to finally have a novel in bookstores, admitting during our discussion at RWA that she's "really more of a print person." And her path to print publication is the stuff of writers' dreams. While attending a panel discussion during a previous RWA convention, Avon editor Lucia Macro mentioned that she would love to see more romantic suspense novels. Taking the cue, Ryan sent Macro her manuscript, and a short three weeks later, Avon bought her series. It's no surprise, really; Ryan is adept at writing those gripping scenes that leave you flipping pages till the end.
Ryan's romance-writing career took off with a bit of a happy shock: the discovery that she was pregnant with third child. "I was reading all the time—I read 10 books a week while my kids were growing up!" she says of her time as a stay-at-home mom with her first two children. But when they grew older, she decided it was time to go back to work as a computer programmer. That plan quickly changed when she discovered that she was pregnant again with her daughter. With another baby on the way, she decided that writing romance novels from home just made sense.
So what inspired her to base her series on the cowboys of Big Sky country? "When I was younger, I had a friend in California with a small ranch and horses. I would spend my weekends riding horses with her, and I just thought it was the most wonderful thing in the world," she explains. "I grew up daydreaming about cowboys, because who wouldn't? I remember thinking, there's got to be a cowboy our there for me—And I ended up marrying a military man!" Ryan lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children, and can usually be found immersed in a world of books.
We chatted with debut author Lillian Marek over email about her first novel, the Victorian romance Lady Elinor's Wicked Adventures (on sale November 4). This novel answers the call for romance in exotic locales, since its heroine Lady Elinor and a distractingly handsome family friend find love while exploring Italy and the ruins of the ancient Etruscan civilization. Marek writes with humor, historical knowledge and just enough spice to keep things interesting.
Writing historical romance was an easy choice for Marek. "I've never wanted to do anything else—you could call it a compulsion. For a number of years, I got my writing fix, so to speak, as a journalist, but it's much more fun writing fiction," she says. Her focus on romance was inspired by a friend's suggestion to pick up Loretta Chase's romance novel Mr. Impossible. "I absolutely adored it," she says. "I started devouring romance novels, especially historical ones, and had a glorious time. Then I thought it would be fun to write them, so I did." As simple as that!
Getting published was a bit more complex than her decision to write, but after winning a few romance-writing contests, Marek felt confident enough to pitch her book to Sourcebooks. Not only did Sourcebooks buy Lady Elinor's Wicked Adventures, they bought the rest of the proposed series as well. "I was, as you can imagine, ecstatic," she says. Marek lives near Long Island Sound with her husband, where she enjoys taking long walks along the coast. We're excited to see where the next intrepid installment in Marek's Victorian Adventurers series takes us!
Rhonda Helms is venturing into the world of New Adult print with her love- and music-inspired novel, Scratch (on sale September 30). Scratch is a departure from her usual romantic young adult novels, which are "frothy and fun," she says during our conversation at the hotel Starbucks. New Adult is an up-and-coming genre, marketed towards young women in their early 20s—a grown-up YA reader, if you will. New Adult focuses on characters finding themselves and struggling with choices and consequences, from first jobs to first loves, as they explore life after high school. "It's got that young adult voice [first person], but with more adult situations. I like the fact that you can write these characters that are a little bit older, and there's lots of high emotion," Helms explains. Helms has a knack for writing convincing dialogue between her young characters, perhaps inspired by conversations with her 18-year-old daughter!
In Scratch, college senior Casey attempts to keep memories of an unpleasant past at bay by losing herself in her gigs as a DJ. She tends to keep others at a distance, but when a fellow student takes an interest in her, she wonders if letting him in might be worth the risk. Helms knew music would be a big part of the book, and explains, "Music is really important to me. I was a DJ too for a while—It was awesome!" Scratch even includes a track list which "reflects stuff that would be on Casey's personal playlist or music that she would play in the club," Helms says. Here's a sample track from the list.
Along with her interest in music, Helms has always loved romance novels. "I started reading romance when I was a kid," Helms says. "I would hide in my mom's bathroom and read her Harlequins!" Growing up with those Harlequins, she knew she wanted to write. However, she says, "The first book I wrote, I had no idea what I was doing. I just sort of vomited out five chapters, and then didn't know what to do next. . . It took me a year, but after that first book, I learned my process. But that first book was rough!" Seven books later, it looks like she's gotten the hang of it.
Helms lives in Cleveland with her family, where you may find her enjoying time with her pets, reading or perhaps sampling her favorite cheeses. "A good aged Gouda is divine, and Asiago cheese is exquisite," she says. Romance with a side of cheese: what more could you want?
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Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
Grove Atlantic • $26.00 • ISBN 9780802121646
Published August 5, 2014
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1410 - Prague Clock
The Old Town Hall of Prague consists of five different clocks, the oldest dating from 1410. The dial shows unequal hours as well as regular hours. Through animations, the details of the clock's working are described, showing how the clock accommodates the irregular length of daylight throughout the year. An engineering marvel and astronomical delight. Don't miss the Excel spreadsheet at the bottom of the page.http://www.wijzerweb.be/prague.html
Oldest astronomical calculator? Read about the discovery of the Antikythera over one hundred years ago. Only recently has its purpose been revealed through x-ray analysis and digital analysis. This website points to a number of research sites and published articles such as "Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism" and "Calendars with Olympiad display and eclipse prediction on the Antikythera Mechanism".http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/
Atmospheric Effects
Why is the sky blue? Well, yes, because of Rayleigh scattering of ligh. But the result of a blue sky is the red sunrise or red sunset. This website provides easy to read scientific literature that tells of light's action in the open air and backs up words with wonder photos of these phenomenon of rainbows, arcs, sundogs, and sun pillars. The site and links are worth browsing.http://epod.usra.edu/blog/2011/03/sunset-and-atmospheric-refraction.html
The Sundial Mail Archive
Want to know what's the latest topic in sundials? What are some of the questions asked about sundials? You can join Dan Roth's Sundial Mailing List but here you'll find the Sundial Mail Archives. Follow sundial topics and see what the experts say. Interesting historical items are uncovered and new dialing techniques discussed. Enjoy it all.http://firstname.lastname@example.com/
Two Worlds - One Sun
The Mars Exploration Rover carried the first interplanetary sundial that primarily served as a panoramic camera color and intensity calibration target. The dial inscription in part read "People launched this spacecraft from Earth in our year 2003. It arrived on Mars in 2004. We built its instruments to study the Martian environment and to look for signs of life. We used this post and these patterns to adjust our cameras and as a sundial to reckon the passage of time. The drawings and words represent the people of Earth. We sent this craft in peace to learn about Mars' past and about our future. To those who visit here, we wish a safe journey and the joy of discovery." The sundial design team included Bill Nye (the Science Guy), Steven Squyres, James Bell, Woodruff ("Woody") Sullivan, Tyler Nordgren , Jon Lomberg and Louis Friedman. This inspired the idea to make a simple copy of this Mars dial, a gnomonic dial, that could be built by dialists and students all around the earth. The motto was "Two Worlds, One Sun." At one time the sun never set on these dials.http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/03/6.26.03/sundial.html


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Phil Spector remains an enigma after his 2009 conviction for the death of actress Lana Clarkson six years earlier. He's in prison today. Clarkson, dead of a gunshot wound, was found in his mansion. Was it suicide, an accident or murder?
Spector was a record producer famous for a technique, called "The Wall of Sound," that he developed to create an overall style for his groups. Wikipedia tells me: "Spector called his technique 'a Wagnerian approach to rock & roll: little symphonies for the kids.' " He named and renamed groups, selected their material, acted as their svengali and essentially created the soundtrack for freeway commuting in L.A.
In the case of "Phil Spector," the Wall of Sound Man is played by Al Pacino, loosely inspired by life, as in another recent performance, that time as euthanasia advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
He plays the role cannily. His Spector knows if he's guilty of murder, but we don't, and that adds to the film's interest. The script is by director David Mamet, who as he often does, prefers an almost hypnotic style in which a character seems to be arguing with himself. This could have happened. That could have happened. The character was there and saw whatever happened, and he doesn't know.
This phenomenon is underlined by Spector's lifestyle. Enormously wealthy, reclusive, he lives inside a forbidding structure, which as he approaches and leaves through its iron gates, reminds us of Xanadu in "Citizen Kane."
The co-star is Helen Mirren, playing Linda Kenney Baden, the attorney who was successfully able to reach a retrial in a case where, as one line of dialogue has it, if Spector wasn't found guilty on the merits of his case, he'd be found guilty on grounds of the notorious O.J. Simpson murder case. Mamet deliberately avoids portraying Baden as heroic, or even right or wrong. She's simply doing her best job.
The film contains scant suspense and few surprises, and depends largely on Pacino's work as an articulate and eccentric painter of his own portrait. His description of his hairstyle, as photographed while back-lighted, has a peculiar charm. Hair also plays a role in the Mirren performance. Baden clings to a blond style that must have been more becoming 20 years ago.
Winning the hung jury in the first trial is a tribute to Baden, who in an effective drawing, shows a small-caliber bullet entering the victim's skull, bouncing off its back wall and making a U-turn. Stranger things have happened. Not a lot.
The dialogue, vaguely Mametian, might have profited by more of the Mamet style. He seems bogged in realism. Few write better dialogue than Mamet at full power. Here he seems at half-steam.
A first-rate supporting cast, including Jeffrey Tambor and Matt Malloy, illuminates second-rate supporting roles. "Phil Spector" is just about ideal as an HBO movie; watchable and gossip-worthy but just not that compelling.
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