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October 28, 2011 Media

Speller-poets vs. reporters who ‘see through words’

Twitter has been abuzz with talk about The Price of Typos. Here’s the angle in the essay that most intrigues

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October 10, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Footnotes vs. endnotes: A Scandalous take

Yes, I mean real footnotes, not just endnotes—so readers will actually read them. The Solomon Scandals contains two endnotes, and

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September 14, 2011 BRAC-133: The Quarter Pentagon / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

$1B+ Quarter Pentagon bungle makes Time Magazine

The terrorist-friendly Quarter Pentagon, the twin towers formally known as BRAC-133, has made Time Magazine. Time depicts the 6,400-worker complex

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September 1, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Cyber-ghosts: Your digital ‘life’ when you’re dead

The literary afterlife was oh so simple for Jonathan Stone, protagonist of The Solomon Scandals. While still alive in the

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September 1, 2011 Buying info / The Solomon Scandals

‘Scandals’ e-book back to $2.99 at Amazon

A sign that the U.S. economy is looking up? Twilight Times Books has ended the 99-cent sale, and the e-book

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July 19, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

AdWords finally working

Update, 7:51 a.m., July 20: The AdWords gods have sent me other notes recommending Amazon-style features but for now are

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July 18, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

More on AdWords’ nitpicking

Update, 5:53 p.m.: I’ve just heard from Google’s Alan Davidson and will not be calling the FTC tomorrow. As a

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July 16, 2011 The Solomon Scandals

Ah, yes! To the Flemish Cap, Speaker Boehner!

";” alt=””> Film as perfect budget-crisis metaphor? As generic rhetoric, some in Washington may talk of  a “perfect storm” of

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June 28, 2011 Building collapses / Media / Publicity / The Solomon Scandals / Washington area life

How to ‘Scandalize’ your book group—either the online or in-person kind

The Solomon Scandals is fiction—a mix of suspense, tragedy and satire—but more than a little history lurks within in it.

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