Moldavite Kindle edition

My novel Moldavite has just been published as an ebook! Hope you enjoy and do please review if you would like:

For the UK click
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moldavite-ebook/dp/B007FS0YM4/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1330945448&sr=1-1

For the US and elsewhere please click Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=Moldavite+Meira+Eliot&x=15&y=13

Moldavite will soon also appear on other retailers and aggregators such as Barnes and Noble, Waterstones, Follett, Gardners, Firstyfish and many more.

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The way we do things is what we are doing

We tend to think of the message and the packaging as two different things. We even argue about whether the form or the content is more important (we do this a lot in teaching). And yet a few hours spent in any family or workplace are enough to show us the truth: the way the message is delivered is often the most important part of the message. Was there ever a great parent or teacher who talked to children as if they were idiots or wastes of space? How many rebellious teenagers have you known who rejected their parents' politics or religion, only to adopt a substitute ideology that perpetuated the same patterns they were trying so hard to escape from? More and more I am convinced that the way we do things is actually what we are doing.

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The 'Paperback' Kindle is here!

So Seth Godin was right, as usual! The new Kindle Wifi is about to launch, retailing in the UK at just 109 smackeroos. So what are we waiting for! I can't wait to have my own portable library in my coat pocket. Bliss!

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July is my Golden Month!

July is my favorite month of the year as a writer - it's the one month I can concentrate completely on writing and nothing else! I am really pleased with myself this month, because I have just finished Book Two of Moldavite: it's called IL Filo, the thread, named for Leopold Mozart's term for the theme in a musical composition.
Now that the text is finished, I am planning to publish the expanded version of the novel on My Ebook, and maybe Lulu. So I still have plenty to keep me busy! I have also started compiling a series of short pieces about Bohemia and Moravia, one or two of which have been published elsewhere, such as Words Without Borders. These are mainly short stories about real-life characters and daily life. Have a good summer!

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Nine

Funny, Nine has always been my favorite number. And I love musicals. So when last weekend turned out really wet, I thought to myself "What a perfect late afternoon for the big screen." I went expecting to be musically entertained, and I certainly was. What I wasn't expecting was a work of art on the level of the "first things", a masterpiece about the creative process itself (shades of "This is It") and the pressures of life in the spotlight. It was moving, it was illuminating. It is not to be missed.

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