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Guest Author: Syrie James

2 August 2010 Jackie 13

Today, I get to welcome Syrie James to Literary Escapism. Syrie is celebrating the release of her newest novel, Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker. Who is this magnetic, fascinating man? And how could one woman fall so completely under his spell? Mina Harker is torn between […]

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Escapist Newsletter (Vol 4 Issue 8)

2 August 2010 Jackie 0

Welcome to the hellish month of August!  Okay, so maybe it won’t be that bad for a lot of people, but this is the month where Simon will be making his world debut and I lose all track of time, sleep, my mind, etc etc.  As such, I have a […]

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LE in August

1 August 2010 Jackie 0

During August, I will not be doing any of the news posts this month – sorry, but I’m going to use those hours to sleep, get adjusted to two boys in the house and prepare the monkey for his first day of school.  However, I’ll be keeping my eyes on […]

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Sunday Surprise – Poetry for Young People Edition!

1 August 2010 Jackie 0

At one point, I was browsing through Amazon looking for “substance” books for Ian and came across this great series titled Poetry for Young People.  I have to say I was really impressed with the collection of authors the series included, for instance: Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, Walt […]

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NAC Mini-Challenge: the RT Board!

1 August 2010 Jackie 4

It’s time to start the next New Author Mini Challege and we’re reading a variety of authors that I happened to have ran into during my two days at the RT Booklovers Convention this past April.  I was only there for two days, but I managed to snag the signature […]