Edward Hughes

Writer, former tennis player, former tennis executive, part time farmer, proudly life-long liberal.

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@ianamikagautam “Sarah, it is time to come home, your country needs you.”

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@BPaigeHersh @EliseBetzBooks I am holding off until fall for my second round of querying. I understand that agents take the summer ‘off’. I am with you on MSWL details. My second novel features WWII, espionage, art, and tennis. With a female protagonist. Hit those agents looking for the same. No hits yet,

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@CreatureAuthor First incarnation. Latest shows the picture (painting) in a gold frame

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@whataimeereads_ Complicated. In my first book, published in UK, moving back and forth between NY, London, DC, etc., in dialogue I tried British for UK folks, and American for US folks. My editor (UK) disapproved. Went with UK. Still found it jarring to see a main US character saying: ‘colour’.

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@SpiesVespers However, if authentic, it should be read with a Queens, New York dialectic.

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@ProfessorXofTex @Mollyploofkins Perhaps a real-life version of Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers.

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@readswithravi Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams. In all his work, every word carefully chosen, every emotion artfully presented. Stories that convey the deep complexities of otherwise seemingly simple lives in rural Ireland. Prose so rich as to rival poetry.

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@mcmuhlenkamp Spent yesterday afternoon (rain here in the Northeast) identifying my second round of potential literary agents for novel number two in my trilogy. Not sure how long I will give the traditional path a chance to respond. I already print hard cover sample books for beta readers.

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@HumbleFlow Anything by David McCullough. Both ‘1776’ and ‘John Adam’s’ were especially good.

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@ThatEricAlper Just in case…’No Retreat, No Surrender’.

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@AuthorGoodwin In a discussion among a group of writers Hemingway interjected that he could write a novel in 6 words. Challenged to prove it, he answered:
‘For sale: ‘Baby shoes - never worn.’

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@thetruthbfree @EastEndJoe Benjamin Franklin: “Blessed is he, who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving the world evidence of the fact.”

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@ATRightMovies Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch

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@SundaeDivine That’s not a smart TV. That’s a brilliant TV.

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@klhicks912 Trans-Atlantic Radio Telephone Line, 1940:
“Sarah, your country needs you…it’s time to come home.”

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@TheRickWilson AI: Yes, lobsters have a prehistoric lineage, with evidence suggesting their ancestors existed over 480 million years ago. Or today…even.

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@DougWahl1 To summarize:
Dear Madam Secretary,
We have read your letter twice. We wish that you had done the same.

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@ianamikagautam Pentimento

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@ATRightMovies This one always does something for me.

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@RoryStewartUK Ask him to cite a single Beatitude.