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Immortality and art. Reflections from a library.
Books unread and way past due… Recently, I attended a charity auction for my kid’s school at a downtown club, where I found myself having a Don Draper moment in the unattended library, a stuffy,...
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When fear permeates Adland, it’s hard to do the things you should.
“I don’t know why sometimes I get frightened.” -Split Enz “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt It’s spring. Time to turn on the fear. I’ve been writing a lot about fear....
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By design, most advertising is shiny and happy. Its creators not so much.
“Funny, I don’t feel in good hands.” Much has been documented on the correlation between mental illness and creativity. The starving artist is an unfortunate cliché. That he or she will be tormented...
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The world says good-bye to “Lost” and “24″ while I never even said Hello.
“I can’t find Steffan anywhere!” Recently I wrote about “choice overload” and its impact on modern society. I was inspired by Barry Schwartz’ book, The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less. Like the...
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Once again, the Gods of Advertising have gathered at Cannes.
“…a bunch of overpaid dinosaurs sunning their fat asses.” -anonymous comment, Agency Spy And so, Cannes… Last year the economic “crisis,” as it was referred to in Europe, took its toll on the...
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When it comes to awarding Lions at Cannes, the eyes have it.
“Asia” for Fed Ex, DDB Brazil, Sao Paulo Per usual, a great many short-listed adverts in the press and poster categories in Cannes are driven by their visuals. Assume similar for films. This has come...
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July burn: distracted by real life.
And it’s not always pleasant… Some people I care about are in pain. A Marriage is blowing up –quietly on the outside; loudly within I’m sure. There are children, who make these things complicated,...
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Internet troll questions if I have the “balls” to write gay character. Well,...
My first Altoids ad. They didn’t call it “curious” for nothing. Saying I must have “some kind of weird balls,” an anonymous commenter took me to task for writing about a gay character in my new novel,...
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Gratitude, guidelines and early results for ‘novel slash social media...
Several of your covers thus far… Gentle Readers- I want to thank you for participating in my ‘novel slash social media experiment,’ Sweet by Design.. For those unawares, Sweet by Design is my third...
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Best selling author and ebook expert, M.J. Rose to help choose cover for...
M.J. Rose is the international bestselling author of 11 novels, including Lip Service, The Memorist and The Hypnotist. The 2010 FoxTV series Past Life was based on her novel – The Reincarnationist....
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