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"Not Easy Being Green," Susy Gage's Tale of Mutant Viruses and Unscrupulous Medical Research, Now Available from Bitingduck Press

“Not Easy Being Green,” Susy Gage’s Tale of Mutant Viruses and Unscrupulous Medical Research, Now Available from Bitingduck Press

Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) February 25, 2015

Clumsily scribbling in a notebook while wearing two pairs of rubber gloves, scientist and author Susy Gage spent two months shadowing researchers in a Biosafety Level 3 lab–the level below space suits–for her newest novel, Not Easy Being Green. The book was originally intended to explore marginal treatments for incurable diseases. But the more the author…

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Puswhisperer, Tales of an Infectious Disease Specialist, Available Now from Bitingduck Press

Puswhisperer, Tales of an Infectious Disease Specialist, Available Now from Bitingduck Press

Pasadena, CA (PRWEB) January 21, 2015

Putting the “MR” in MRSA. The ins and outs of the flu shot. Why pork might be the other white meat, but unless you fancy a brain full of worms, needs to be cooked through. Oregon infectious disease physician Mark Crislip answers all of these questions and many more, in his recently released “Puswhisperer: A Year in the Life of an Infectious Disease Doctor.”

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The "My Writing Process" blog tour.

The “My Writing Process” blog tour.

I’m hunkered on my spot on the couch, my creative place. It’s a brown leather loveseat, I’m on the left cushion, on the right is a stack of books I”m reading, including a book my main character finds in my latest story. A pile of paper. DVDs. Scraps. On my left, is a coffee table. It too is covered in work stuff.

I was sitting in this spot, working, when illustrator Val Lawton (http://vallawton.b…

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The Art of Cover Art

The Art of Cover Art

When a book moves through the process, the publisher usually begins to work up some cover art with the help of an artist. The cover is a big deal, a bigger deal than ever before, I think. There’s so much to read and choose from, a reader is forced to judge a book by its cover.

So the whole story has to be on the cover. Not the whole story, but the heart of the story, in picture form. It can’t…

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Don't fear the black crayon

Don’t fear the black crayon

One of my beta-readers offered an interesting criticism of my new story, tentatively titled “Kill Shot”: My character’s stifled emotion in certain situations, like when he’s angry. His natural responses were muted. I had clipped the ugly moments of the new story. I’m afraid to use the black crayon.

I told him about a few readers’ criticism of my first YA novel, Duck Boy. It was called it demonic.…

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