Sabin Howard and Paul Brodeur in the HuffPo, separately
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Sabin Howard and Paul Brodeur in the HuffPo, separately

Two of my men were featured in the Huffington Post within a day of each other.

Yesterday, my dear, longtime, brilliant, accurate, and very feisty friend Paul Brodeur struck back at American Hustle. He was roundly defamed in the movie, and he didn’t stand for it. He spoke with a HuffPo reporter and set the record straight.

Catch the article here, at

Paul Brodeur: I Never Said That Microwaves Take Nutrients Out Of Food, Despite ‘American Hustle’.

Paul is a wonderful fishing buddy, btw.
Today my husband master artist Sabin Howard was featured in an article on drawing by artist Daniel Maidman.
Maidman waxes eloquent about my husband’s remarkable draughtsmanship, and the figure drawings Sabin has been producing of late:

The form of beauty Howard pursues is the Greek beauty, awful, unmerciful, scouring. There is no more hiding from the crushing demands of virtue or from the stark final nature of things in his conception of the figure. Howard is, after a manner of speaking, a servant of Apollo, and not just any servant. He is trying to become Tiresias; he scarcely requires eyes to see what he sees.

Find the post here, at

Art and Artists III: Forms of Beauty.

Sabin Howard
This is one of Sabin’s latest, and isn’t it rather lovely?
3 Best of 2013 Lists; Crystal Reviews on FAR SHORE; Blog upload issues.

3 Best of 2013 Lists; Crystal Reviews on FAR SHORE; Blog upload issues.

Good news first: Three of my books made it to “BEST OF 2013” lists on Book Review Blogs:

Also, the ineluctable and insightful reviewer Viviane Crystal reviewed FAR SHORE on Crystal Book Reviews:

The unique quality of this final novel is how love plays out in very, very unexpected ways that are notably profound not only for the characters but for those who are forming new Safe Zone communities….Far Shore… is a well-crafted finale to a notable sci-fi story.  Traci Slatton doesn’t reduce the story to a simple good guy-bad guy scenario and leaves the reader again with questions about evolving relationships, powers of the mind and spirit, and what it takes to live with each person’s virtues and vices and all the foibles in between.  

Click here for the review.

Now the flip side: Something is going on with the way this blog page feeds into my website. Whether it is a Rapidblog coding issue, server side PHP problem, or google feed snafu, I have not been able to ascertain. Very frustrating. I’m usually excellent with tech stuff, but this has me stymied. I hope the issues resolve, and if anyone reading this has a suggestion, I’m open to hearing it!

Meantime, if you are trying to get to my blog from my website tracilslatton.com, try the google blog itself, tracilslatton.blogspot.com

THANK YOU!
And happy new year.

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