Matt’s novel, The Mirage, will be published in early February with this new cover design:
The ARCs (advance review copies) were printed with the original green and pink design, which I suppose will make them more collectible.
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Sites I like: Fact-Checking & Journalism
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- Holocaust Resources on the Web
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
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- Journal of the American Revolution
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- Oral History Centers and Collections
- Oxford English Dictionary
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- Primary Sources at Yale
- Project Gutenberg
- Provenance Online Project
- Rag Linen
- Research Buzz
- Researching the American Revolution
- Sarah Werner's compendium of resources (digitized First Folios, book history)
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
- Seattle Public Library databases
- SFE: Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
- Smithsonian Learning Lab
- The Authentic History Center: Primary Sources from American Popular Culture
- The CITE
- The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library
- The European Library portal
- The Historiography of the American Revolution: A Timeline
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- 100 Best First Lines of Novels
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- Bauman Rare Books
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- The Private Library
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Sites I Like: Words & Editing
- After Deadline
- AP Stylebook Ask the Editor
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- Avoiding plagiarism: ORI Guide to Ethical Writing
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- CopyEditing
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- Johnson blog at the Economist
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