Oprah Winfrey and Kindle

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Links on Tell Me a Story

• How To Describe - Mastering Descriptive Writing
• To Write A Story - 20 Ways To Write A Story Better
• Story Characters - 7 Cool Ways To Jump-Start Your Writing

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Ultimate endorsement for Kindle

For those authors like myself, who have taken a very tentative look at Amazon's Kindle e-reader and dithered over whether or not to go down that route, the push to action may just have been taken.

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In a posting on her Web site, and on her show, Oprah Winfrey discloses that Kindle is her "favorite new gadget".

Wow! That sort of sets it in concrete, doesn't it. The future will definitely be bright for Kindle. It now has the ultimate endorsement.

I wish she'd do the same for Without Reproach!

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David Wroblewski and the Oprah Winfrey show

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Links on Tell Me a Story

• How To Describe - Mastering Descriptive Writing
• To Write A Story - 20 Ways To Write A Story Better
• Story Characters - 7 Cool Ways To Jump-Start Your Writing

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David Wroblewski, new writer on the block, has hit the roll-over prize of literary fiction. I wish him all the best, green with envy though I am.

The dream-of-a-lifetime has happened for him. Oprah Winfrey has selected his debut novel, "The Story of Edgar Sawtelle," as her latest book-club choice, which means of course it has the prospect for sales of hundreds of thousands of copies.

Barnes & Noble had already selected the novel as a "Fall 2008 Discover New Writers" title, and it has had critical tributes in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor and from author Stephen King.

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What an incredible happening. I'll bet he thinks he's won the biggest lottery of all time. He's now made forever. Wow! I'll raise my glass to him tonight. Cheers, David. (I wonder if he'll do a blog on me).

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Next post, Book signing.

Bedlam.

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