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Category: The Black Hour

  • Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2014Monday, August 4, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

News Flash: Best Sellers, Giveaways, Writer’s Digest and Meet-Ups

Congrats to Marci & Sharon, who won copies of DESOLATION ROW from Kay Kendall!   From the 2014 Debs… Heather Webb is…

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  • Posted on Monday, July 28, 2014Monday, July 28, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

Coming Soon to a Theatre Near You: “The Syndrome”

A comedy in one act. *** LORI RADER-DAY, a writer getting ready for her debut novel launch party, sits at…

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  • Posted on Sunday, July 27, 2014Monday, July 28, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

News Flash: Romance Writers, Hometown Libraries, Yahoo She and Book Festivals

Congrats to Ronna, who won a signed copy of BLADE OF THE SAMURAI from Susan Spann!   From the 2014 Debs……

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  • Posted on Monday, July 21, 2014Tuesday, July 22, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

#sorrynotsorry

The truth about guilty pleasures is that I don’t really believe in guilty pleasures. I believe in PLEASURES. I just…

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  • Posted on Monday, July 14, 2014Monday, July 14, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

Barely Able to Write a Post About Not Writing About…You Know

A while back I talked about how my friend and first reader Yvonne saved my book by wondering what the…

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  • Posted on Sunday, July 13, 2014Sunday, July 13, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

News Flash: Debut Launch, Book Events, Edits, and Perfect Drinks

Congrats to Larry, who won a signed copy of GRAND CENTRAL from Erica Robuck and Alyson Richman! From the 2014 Debs… Lori…

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  • Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2014Wednesday, July 2, 2014
  • by Lori Rader-Day

Characters, Surprises, Happiness, Advice: Lori Rader-Day Sits in the Guest Chair to Launch THE BLACK HOUR + GIVEAWAY

So here I am in the red Deb Ball chair. Putting up my Chucks. (I always sit cross-legged, like a…

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  • Posted on Friday, July 11, 2014Friday, July 11, 2014
  • by Lisa Alber

THE BLACK HOUR by Lori Rader-Day Is An Amazing Mystery Too

I love the posts about Lori’s THE BLACK HOUR this week. Natalia, Susan, and Heather have said everything I was…

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  • Posted on Thursday, July 10, 2014Thursday, July 10, 2014
  • by Heather Webb

Sometimes Craft Trumps All & The Black Hour More than Delivers

I finished reading The Black Hour last weekend, yet it still clings to me. I could philosophize about the violence…

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  • Posted on Wednesday, July 9, 2014Wednesday, July 9, 2014
  • by Susan Gloss

No Ping Pong Here: Dual Points of View in The Black Hour

Tackling more than one point of view is a difficult thing to do well, for any author. It’s especially difficult…

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