Happy new electronic year!
Got a new Nook or Kindle? Lots of folks are jumping on the e-book bandwagon and as authors we are all thrilled to get more folks reading fiction, whether ours or somebody else’s. Several of us here at Thalia Press Authors Co-op have free or specially priced e-books right now. Go forth and load up those e-readers!
Gary Phillips is offering up up a free holiday story for everyone – The Kwanzaa Initiative at FourStory.
Sparkle Hayter has the first book in her very funny Robin Hudson series, available in many formats for free at Smashwords.com
Katy Munger is offering many of her mysteries for free for Amazon Prime members. Her Casey Jones mysteries are a kick-ass ride. Check them out!
Rory Tate (that’s Lise McClendon) is also offering up her new thriller Jump Cut for free to Amazon Prime members who can borrow books for Kindle.
And don’t forget DEAD OF WINTER, the short story anthology for your Kindle and Nook. Chilling stories from bestselling mystery writers for only $4.99.
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Movies About Writers
I finally saw Midnight in Paris. The fiancée and her parents were clichés, though the kind one meets too often in Paris, but that minor flaw is easily forgiven because of the look of the film, the clever plotting, a perfect Hemingway, and the Surrealists. Magic! Writers are often the protagonists in Woody Allen’s films, which got me thinking about all the movies I’ve seen about my profession.
Writers spend most of their time in their bathrobes in tiny rooms, working, so they seem unlikely heroes and heroines for the screen. Probably, their prominence in film is due to the fact that movies are written by, duh, writers, and we tend to solipsism. Read more 
Pan American Airways
I haven’t seen the TV show yet. Is it any good? I’m a big Pan Am history fan, since I was a kid in landlocked Northern Alberta clutching my atlas to my heart. Their posters are the stuff of dreams
Pan Am represented adventure in far-flung places, made less distant by jet travel. Although I never wanted to be a “stewardess,” I always admired their sense of adventure, professionalism and glamour.
The show is set in 1963 so (SPOILER ALERT)… Read more
