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I have this image in my mind of a person looking at this book in the store and in the background behind their shoulder is a group the size of the Verizon support team saying “Can you buy me now?” on 02 Dec 2009 at 3: 39 pm lunch hour links for writers – 12/2/09 « helluo librorum
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Debrief: A month into my novel’s lifecycle 2009
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September 4, 2009 at 6: 08 am lunch hour links for writers – 9/23/09 « helluo librorum
What I Wish I Had Known Before Writing My First Book - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn 2009
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A lot of my longterm readers are telling me they especially liked this book. on 18 Nov 2009 at 10: 18 am lunch hour links for writers – 11-18-09 « helluo librorum
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Old Bones, New Flesh: Building a novel from a fairy tale concept 2009
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But then, who [...] on 06 Jan 2010 at 9: 27 am lunch hour links for writers – 1/6/10 « helluo librorum
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Pingback by lunch hour links for writers – week of 7/13/09 « helluo librorum |
What to include on author websites « The Book Publicity Blog 2009
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Quis tam avidus librorum helluo, who can read them?
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He was so passionately fond of books, and so devoted to reading, that he constantly carried about him some favorite volume which, as a spare moment occurred, he perused with the avidity of an _helluo librorum_.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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True, we have no such omnivorous gatherers of literary rubbish as that magnificent _helluo librorum_, Richard Heber, who amassed what was claimed to be the largest collection of books ever formed by a single individual.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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Lord Ronsdale gazed absently out of the window, through a film, as it were, at a venerable figure below; one of the species _helluo librorum_ standing before a book-stall opposite.
Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham
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Imagine the consternation created in a small circle of collectors by a sudden alighting among them of a _helluo librorum_ with such propensities, armed with illimitable means, enabling him to desolate the land like some fiery dragon!
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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