Monthly Archives: October 2009

Blog Carnival Post and Name Change

I’ve just submitted to my first Blog Carnival! I’m hoping it’ll help generate some more traffic to my blog. Here’s the link: http://www.missyfrye.net/Blog/?p=2042 My friend Livia is the one who told me about blog carnivals (you can check out one … Continue reading

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Fashion photos for Project Runway and Mad Men Fans

MyVintageVogue.com has a ton of lovely photos like the one above featuring vintage fashion images. Enjoy! (via The Morning News)

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Developing your book idea into a full-length novel

image by churl So you have an idea for a story, but you can’t seem to get more than a few pages into it. How do you turn a few pages of an idea into a full-length novel? Strategy #1 … Continue reading

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Ugly Betty: Everyone has changed–except Betty

Did anyone else catch Ugly Betty last week? What an episode! It starts of with a dream–Betty getting her braces off. But why oh why was it just a dream? *sigh* Oh well. I guess they’ll have to leave that … Continue reading

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Book Review: When You Reach Me

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead This novel is strange and thought-provoking–but in a good way. It starts off quietly, and reads as an episodic kind of a story (which usually bores me to death) but as soon as … Continue reading

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3 Writing Lessons from Battlestar Galactica

(Inspired by Peta Andersen’s blog post “5 Things I Learned From ‘The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh‘”. We had a bit of an online conversation on the commentary section of her blog about learning from TV shows, and I … Continue reading

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New E-reader from Spring Design

E-reader alert! Spring Design has announced their new e-reader Alex. Like Barnes and Noble’s new e-reader, Alex will have both a black and white e-ink screen and a smaller color LCD screen and run on Google’s Android software. It will … Continue reading

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3 Shows I Have Officially Deleted From My DVR

So now that I’m back from vacation, I found my DVR had run out of room!! That meant…time to delete stuff I’m never ever going to watch (and time to buy a new hard drive). What shows did I delete? … Continue reading

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National Book Award Finalists

The National Book Award finalists have been posted! Now I have even more books to add to my to-read list… From Publishers Weekly and Nationalbook.org: Young People’s Literature: (judges were: Kathi Appelt, Coe Booth, Carolyn Coman, Nancy Werlin, and Gene … Continue reading

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FlashForward Picked for Full Season

According to TV Guide, FlashForward, Cougar Town, Modern Family, and The Middle will all continue on ABC for a full season. As for the other channels, CBS has picked up The Good Wife and NCIS: LA and Fox has picked … Continue reading

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