Today the Dragon Wins

"Today the Dragon Wins" offers information from Fantasy Author and Professional Editor Sandy Lender. You'll also find dragons, wizards, sorcerers, and other fantasy elements necessary for a fabulous story, if you know where to look...

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Sandy Lender is the editor of an international trade publication and the author of the fantasy novels Choices Meant for Gods and Choices Meant for Kings, available from ArcheBooks Publishing, and the series-supporting chapbook, What Choices We Made.

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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Word of the Day
Glean
(transitive verb) – to gather; specifically to gather grain left by reapers; to collect information a bit at a time (etymology: from Celtic "glend-no-")

Word in a Sentence: In the fantasy novel Choices Meant for Gods, Chariss gleans information about Jamieson and Julette's plans from Nicholas during a slow interrogation. (Her interrogation of Emperor Wold in Book II is not so slow…)

Your turn! Share a sentence with today's Word of the Day and enter the eBooks contest. You could win electronic versions of Choices Meant for Gods and What Choices We Made at the end of the month.

"Some days, I just want the dragon to win."

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Blogger Asylumgirl said...

Many people glean knowledge of interesting subject matter due to more colorful college courses.

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