Story By G. Robert Frazier

Author: G Robert Frazier

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Review: Gray Lady a unique, warm story of family, friends, life

Home is where stories happen. Where lives, young and old, come together. Where lives are celebrated, changed forever, mourned, and remembered. Where birthdays are observed, Christmas presents opened, children conceived, marriages endured or shattered. Where the events of the day are witnessed, recapped, debated, and put in perspective. Where laughs…

August 3, 2015
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/31

Every day I scour the web for interesting articles, writing tips, and just great reads. It’s all part of my ongoing effort to learn more about the craft of writing. A lot of these come from email newsletters I subscribe to or from my Facebook newsfeed. From time to time…

July 31, 2015
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Bargain ebook shopping good way to discover new authors

I recently came across this interesting article about bargain ebook buyers, who they are, what they’re reading and so on. Take a moment to read it, I’ll wait…. OK, back with me? Good. Personally, I fall in the category of “see a good bargain, snatch it up, read it later.” In…

July 30, 2015
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Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines are a steal

I only occasionally purchase Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. Not because I don’t want to, mind you, but because I’ve got so much other material to read already (including back issues I still haven’t finished yet.) But, obsessed with reading as I am, when I saw a recent…

July 28, 2015
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Reading and Writing Around the Web 7/27

Today we’ll celebrate three icons of the written word in Reading and Writing Around the Web. First up, Agatha Christie fans will be excited to know that Lifetime is partnering with BBC One on a miniseries adaptation of the best-selling crime novelist’s And Then There Were None. The cast includes Douglas Booth, Charles…

July 28, 2015
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/25: The Amazon edition

It seems like everyone wants a piece of Amazon. Or at least to blame Amazon for their writerly woes. The Interweb is full of articles bemoaning Amazon’s Kindle author pay policy, customer review policy, and more. Here’s just a few articles I came across recently: The Authors Guild is urging…

July 25, 2015
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Review: Ant-Man’s silly fun works for fan boys, kids only

I’m apparently not the comic book fan boy geek I used to be. Otherwise, I should have loved Ant-Man, the latest Marvel super-hero opus gracing your local Cineplex. But, for all of its efforts, I was bored, annoyed, and just plain uninspired by the film. Oddly, it’s getting pretty decent…

July 24, 2015
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Reading and Writing for the Web 7/22

Every day I scour the web for articles on reading and writing to further my education about my craft and try to share the best of those articles with you here. Today, I thought I’d focus on reading. One of the most common, reiterated pieces of advice for writers of…

July 22, 2015
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/21

Has this ever happened to you? Today I had as many as 16 tabs open on my computer at the same time in my web browser, and, naturally, the browser crashed. Fortunately, when you reopen the browser there’s a neat little tool called Recent Tabs that, once you click on…

July 21, 2015
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Reading and Writing Around the Web for 7/20

I tried to keep the distractions to a minimum today and limit my time online so that I could do a little bit of writing. Couple of things did catch my eye and they are listed below for those interested in a bit of writerly advice or an interesting read:…

July 20, 2015