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March is Thriller Recipe Month

March is Thriller Recipe Month at stevengjackson.com. Each week, I’ll be posting recipes that will enable you to create a fine dining experience in your home, at a reasonable cost. These are no-hassle recipes that I’ve prepared many times, and always crowd favorites....

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Support Your Local Bookstore

Support Your Local Bookstore

Supporting your local bookstore is good for your community, good for readers, good for writers, and good for our culture. Every community is enriched when locally owned and operated book shops thrive, providing a safe haven for readers of all ages. They provide...

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Chinese New Year Menu

You’re planning your Chinese New Year menu, and you want to celebrate in style, but without the whole duck or whole fish preparation. Because your guests freak out when you place a duck or fish head on their plate. But this is a special tradition, and a good excuse to...

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24 Hour Creative: A Classic Theatrical Challenge!

24 Hour Creative: A Classic Theatrical Challenge!

Have you ever wanted to see a live stage event where everything has been created in the previous 24 hours? 24 Hour Creative, held on February 6th at the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, CA., does just that. Six playwrights are chosen to write a play...

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Get Lit Up!

Lit Up! A Conversation with Orange County Readers and Writers is a monthly gathering hosted by Maddie Margarita at Kean Coffee in Tustin, CA. Sponsored by Pure Fiction League, a critique group for fiction writers, the coffeehouse is transformed into a bastion for...

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Using All Three Halves of the Brain

I use all three halves of the brain. I’m deep into my second career as a full-time professional writer, with a published novel, several produced stage plays, and many award-winning short stories. Many view my first career in engineering as so dissimilar to writing...

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ShowOff! – International Playwriting Festival

I love live theatre. Everything about it screams ‘this is special.’ The audience anticipation as the curtain is about to go up, the vibrant settings of a musical or stage play, the crisp voices, all make for a memorable event, one that lasts for decades. One of my...

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