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Capes: The Must Have for Fall

by Julia London

I was surprised to discover the clothing item that no well-dressed woman can live without this Fall season is the cape!  Super heroes are in vogue again and each and every one of us should have a selection of capes to wear with our skinny jeans.  Okay, I confess, I have a pair of skinny [...]

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Whiny Wednesday: Deadlines

by Julia London

Stupid deadlines.  Why am I always smashed up against them, my face pressed against the deadline glass, an unseen force behind me, pushing and pushing until I either burst through the deadline and emerge victorious, or get crushed trying to break through? This happens every. single. book.  And it’s all me.  I used to think [...]

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Writer’s Corner: Getting Readers to Read My Book

by Julia London

It’s a brutal truth for writers these days that the person who is going to put the most work into promoting your book is you.  I say brutal because most of us enter this profession with that starry-eyed gaze, dreaming of all the possibilities for fame and fortune.  I don’t think any of the whiners [...]

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Memorial Day Weekend: Remembering

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Classic Kathleen Givens: from 5/22/09 I’m not usually overly sentimental about national holidays, but I recently heard about the death of the older brother of a high school friend. Dave was 19 when he was drafted for Vietnam. His father had been a WWII hero, so off Dave went to war, thinking he would be [...]

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Writer’s Corner: The Middle Always Sucks

by Julia London

I agonize over my middles. When I am writing a novel, I go gangbusters up to about page 100, and then all the great ideas I had about this book start to slip away from me. I even have trouble remembering those great ideas. I study my cryptic notes–you know, the ones I made when [...]

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Crazy People

by Julia London

I am supposed to talk about Good Books or Good Buys today, but I’ll be honest–I haven’t had time to read or buy anything.  So I am going to talk about crazy people.  I have run across two in two days. The first is a guy in my neighborhood.  I don’t mean to disparage anyone, [...]

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Pop Culture Monday: SAG vs Golden Globe

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Comparisons are fun! Shall we have a look at some different style choices for SAG/Golden Globes? Christina Hendricks. Full figured gal, on the hit show Mad Men. I love that she has amazing curves. And she knows how to play them up or down, clearly. For the Golden Globes, she let the globes come out [...]

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Fashion Friday: Golden Globes Whine Report

by Sherri Browning Erwin

So we already talked about some of the gowns in The Good and The Bad on Sunday. Let’s see the rest, shall we? It seems a lot of the looks were up for debate. No two expert sources (E!, People, In Touch, Us, Entertainment Weekly, Go Fug Yourself) seem to agree on who was actually [...]

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Writer’s Corner: Refilling a Very Empty Well

by Julia London

I had kind of a bad 2009.  A lot of personal stuff zapped my creative energy and I didn’t even know it was happening.  Looking back at the pages I had written during the worst of it (when I thought I was writing my way through it, like well-meaning writers tell you to do) I [...]

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Whiny Wednesday – Airport Screening

by Julia London

Recently, I flew through Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has those full body scanners. I had never been through one before, so when they suggested I step in, I did. I lifted my arms. They took a picture. I got the okay and walked through and got on my flight and never thought about it again…until the [...]

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Whine Sisters Person of the Year

by Sherri Browning Erwin

Whiny Wednesday. There can be no better time to complete the voting and help us choose who deserves the honor of Whine Sisters Person of the Year. In the past, we have honored worthy people who have done really great things. And singled out awful people who have done amazingly bad things. In short, this [...]

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Question of the Week: What Kind of Wrapper Are You?

by Julia London
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In the years that the Whine Sisters blog has existed, I have come into the self-awareness that I am not very domestic.  I don’t cook, I don’t decorate, I don’t do crafts.  I do, however, clean up pretty well and can make everything look nice and neat, which probably suggests that in a previous life, [...]

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Fashion Friday — Mad Men and Petticoats

by Julia London
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I recently began watching The AMC drama, Mad Men, and I am hooked.  If you haven’t seen it, it’s a soap opera set in the heady, sexy, bourbony days of the early sixties before this country experienced a sea-change in culture.  There is lots to talk about in Mad Men, but one thing that always [...]

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Finding your space

by Julia London

Welcome to our wild and wacky Thursdays:  Writer’s Corner.  Every Thursday, one of us is going to blog about writing.  This is a great challenge to me because I don’t have much to say on the topic.  I do what I do, but I can’t really explain how I do it (with that set-up, who [...]

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