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• Blood & Editing

  
  Litopia Daily & Litopia After Dark — Authority: 118
  Is the standard of editing in publishing getting better? Peter believes that, despite suspicions to the contrary, it may actually be improving.  And are there any areas of a manuscript that an editor should never ...
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• Voynichese = Biliteral Cipher?

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  I’ve had a few recent emails from historical code-breaker Tony Gaffney concerning the Voynich Manuscript, to say that he has been hard at work examining whether Voynichese might in fact be an example of an early Baconian biliteral cipher . This is a method Francis Bacon invented of hiding messages inside other ...
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• First Draft in 30 Days.

  
  Taste of Kiwi — Authority: 471
  As a writer I’m always interested in craft books, and I’ve been meaning to pick up this particular one for a long time. The title—First Draft in 30 Days is a bit misleading because if you follow the methods prescribed you’ll end up with a very detailed outline rather than a first draft. Ms. Wiesner [...]
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• Review of Lemonade Stand Simple

  
  WhoInnovated.com — Authority: 152
  Diane Helbig has written an excellent little book for small-business people about how to make the sale.  Lemonade Stand Simple does precisely what the title suggests:  it makes the process of prospecting for customers, networking and retaining customers “lemonade stand simple.” Diane is one of our cadre of Small ...
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• Pater Castell and the Voynich Manuscript, reviewed…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  About a month ago, I mentioned here that there was an upcoming episode of “ Ihr Auftrag, Pater Castell”  with a Voynich theme. Well… this aired on ZDF on 5th November 2009, and ( with a tip of the hat to Michael Johne’s voynichlupe blog ) here’s a link to the ”Das Voynich-Manuskript” episode ...
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• "The End" Doesnt Mean Youre Done

  
  Terry's Place — Authority: 126
  What Im reading: Kindred in Death, by J.D. RobbIll be one of about 20 authors signing books on Saturday. I know the majority of you arent local, but this is our RWA chapters annual event to raise money for the Adult Literacy League in Orlando. Twenty percent of the proceeds will be donated to the organization, thanks ...
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• Handy Manuscript Clipboard Near Computer

  
  My Organized Biz — Authority: 421
  I discovered the handy aspect of a manuscript or letter clipboard near one’s computer.  Image: sxc.hu When I was subbing for a secretary at a nearby school, I noticed the upright clipboard affair next to her computer screen. When I needed to type on her word processor, I discovered how handy it was to have my ...
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• How to Prepare a Manuscript

  
  How to write — Authority: 98
  If you have a real “story” up your sleeve and know how to word it in passable English, the next thing to learn is the way to prepare a manuscript in professional form for marketing.  Good form dictates that the first page of your contribution should bear in the upper left hand corner of the sheet your name, upon ...
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• Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost -1.0 5 2009-11-04 13:06:49 1stAngel (with video) A campaign to save the papers of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon for the nation has been bolstered by a grant of £550,000. The National Heritage Memorial Fund’s award to Cambridge University puts it closer to ...
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• A Question For All Who Wish to Comment in Reply

  
  King James Only? — Authority: 409
  I am looking for an interlinear NT. I would like one that contains some manner of  justification for the reading chosen. At this point I have two based on the TR, but would like one based on the TR with variants noted with a justification for their inclusion.  I would also like one based upon the latest UBS of ...
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• Untweetable Voynich Manuscript limerick…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  Alas, sometimes the limitations of Twitter are all too apparent. The follow-up to my previous VMs limerick simply refuses to be shoehorned inside the 140 character limit:- A dodgy bookdealer called Wilfrid Hotly denied he had pilfered Or hoaxed, faked or shammed His “ Book Of The Damned ” (That he’d ...
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• Nick’s Voynich Manuscript limerick…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  I’m not really getting on with the whole Twitter @nickpelling thing . I try but… it just seems to have all the downsides of texting ( apart from a slightly nicer keyboard ). Here’s today’s tweet, though:- The Voynich Manuscript Is something someone ripped Off guys who died Then placed inside A ...
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• Understanding the Printed Greek Texts

  
  King James Only? — Authority: 409
  Now that we’ve looked at the different text types from the extant  MSS , we need to proceed to the next step in the process of how we got our Bible. The next step is to compile the extant MSS, compare them  look for differences in the readings and make educated decisions about which reading is the right one. Then ...
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• Submission packet mystery theatre, continued: the race is not always to the swift

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 119
  Before I launch back into my ongoing spate of darkly illustrative tales of Submitters Gone Wrong (hey, it’s Halloween — what could possibly be scarier to a writer than a submission gone horribly awry?) I have a bit of procedural business: I’m going to be taking a brief hiatus from posting here at Author! ...
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• “Decoding the lost symbols” mini-conference…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  Next Sunday (8th November 2009), $99 should get you into a one-day mini-conference in LA focusing on “hidden history, signs, symbols, and secrets”, hosted by Simon Cox, author of the brand new book “Decoding The Lost Symbol”… OK, I’m sure you’ve rumbled the secret already: that it’s basically a ...
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• “Das Voynichmanuskript aus pharmaziehistorischer Sicht”…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  Here are two German papers (from 2007 and 2008) by Dr. Michael Mönnich on the Voynich Manuscript I stumbled across a few months ago, both of which place it within the context of the history of pharmacy: Pharmazeutische Aspekte im Voynich-Manuskript. In: “Drugs and medicines from sides of the Atlantic Ocean” ...
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• Wrapping up on wrapping up: what precisely should go in that box?

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 119
  Are you excited to have reached the end of this extended megaseries on everything and anything that should go in a query or submission packet — other than the manuscript, that is? Did that collective “Nyeah” I just heard mean that you’re thrilled to have all of this knowledge under your belt, in preparation ...
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• The Two Guillaumes (Rondelet and Pellicier)…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  Earlier this year, I proposed that the VMs might possibly have brought by Guillaume Pellicier from Venice to Guillaume Rondelet in Montpellier , and listed a short bibliography of titles that would be worth consulting to check this out. A few days ago, I found one of them on the Internet: Correspondance politique ...
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• Dealing with Rejection

  
  The Unutterable Phrase — Authority: 112
  Rejection. It’s one of those memory-laden words that instantly transports us back to a time and a place and a particular song or perfume or words. From the hurtful Kindergarten rejection of, “You’re not my friend anymore” to the adolescent heartache of, “I’m dumping you and going out with your best ...
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• Upcoming Spanish and German Voynich novels…

  
  Cipher Mysteries — Authority: 119
  A couple of upcoming Voynich Euro-novels for your brief attention: firstly, the Spanish ” El caso Voynich ” (i.e. “ The Voynich Case” ) from Argentinian writer and columnist Daniel Guebel . Though references to it seem to have been temporarily removed from Guebel’s website, it appears to be based on ...
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