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How can writers survive in the looming recession?  Peter offers some do’s and don’ts.   In today’s Write Report, Donna reports that the Author’s Guild and Google reach a settlement in their book scanning lawsuit – there’s a settlement of $45m coming to authors – but who’s really won?  It’s Halloween time of year and our thoughts turn to… vampires!  But why do we love them so much – especially in harder economic times?   In Eve’s Salmagundi Club she asks, how do cockroaches work?  And can you recall the names of the five heaviest building ever moved?  Eve shares a site resplendent with outré trivia such as this, and draws inspiration from the Fourteen Most Rejected Bestsellers of All Time.  We can all dream, huh?

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