Author Archive: tyunglebower

Author Followings

    In my last post, I mentioned that for the sake of diversity in my reading, I should put forth a greater effort to seek out minority authors and their stories. Read the past to see why this is important, in my opinion. Yet it brings up a far less important but nonetheless interesting …

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Diversity in Fiction

Appropriate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day that I offer some thoughts on diversity, in this case in the fiction world. Let me open by saying that in no way does the level of diversity in fiction these days compare with the importance of Dr. King’s mission and the Civil Rights Movement. There are …

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Duotrope

I finally joined. At least I’ll check it out for a few months. For those who don’t know, Duotrope is a sort of searchable database for writers. With it, one can search for magazines and journals and such that most match, in tone, style and length, the sort of piece one has written. A writer …

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Small(er) Talk

If by now you don’t know i detest small talk, thank you for stopping by my blog and having anything at all to do with  me for the very first time ever. The rest of you know what a thorn in my side it is. I highly prefer conversation of substance, even if I don’t …

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MMXVI

Happy New Year to all. I am obviously back at the blogging wheel as it were. As I tend to do with the first post of each year, I’m just going to lay out the general plans I have for the year, a sort of accountability thing. First I’ll say that I accomplished about 90% …

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