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This is a clever way to announce the "birth" of a book: It took a bird, a photographer, a writer, an "I've never attended a writing workshop in my life and everyone's going to know it" gal from Texas, EBWW 2010 and an alignment of the stars to bring these two writers together. Two years later at EBWW 2012, a whine was added, some wine was consumed and Mabel and MayBelle were born. It took less than a year for their story to be written, more than a year to edit it, a thousand or more e-mai ...

"Why is it that when people want to avoid something," I asked my dentist, "they always say, 'I'd rather have a root canal than {fill in the blank}?'" "Years ago it was tough," he responded. "But these days it's like getting a tooth filled." Oh, yeah, I thought, and I suppose you believe in the Tooth Fairy. Dr. G had just told me I needed to have my first root canal. The procedure is a cliché substitute for the word "pain." I had to sink my teeth into the whole id ...