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The series began with A SEASON FOR THE DEAD and continues with block-buster after block-buster.
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Don't you want to make a block-buster movie and sell plushies of your characters?
Archive 2010-04-01 Stroppy Author 2010
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With the exception of authors of block-buster works such as Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and the top romances, most authors are writing more books, but the numbers of copies of each title sold tend to be lower.
November « 2008 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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And if you think of that time RoboCop was made, who directed it … Well i too don't want some "block-buster master" doing it, like Michael Bay or dunno what other names.
Darren Aronofsky is Eyeing the RoboCop Remake?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I did manage an effort a couple of weeks ago, which I may get around to recording, if I can remember how it goes (always the litmus test), but that was really just the block-buster.
Nobody ever got fired for using an E instead of an Em « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008
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Gena will be chatting about her current block-buster release and gossiping about the writing life in general.
Come chat with Gena Showalter in the Knight Agency chatroom! 2008
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The story dealt with a speculator who moved a black family into a white neighborhood, setting off panic selling to the "block-buster."
Alfred Balk dies: Former Columbia Journalism Review editor was 80 Keith Thursby 2010
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Don't you want to make a block-buster movie and sell plushies of your characters?
How to read a publishing contract (1) Stroppy Author 2010
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This finding has put in doubt a legend, popularized in modern times among Czechs by several block-buster movies, which says that Mr. Brahe died because of an internal infection after his bladder burst.
Danes to Exhume Medieval Astronomer in Prague Leos Rousek 2010
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With the exception of authors of block-buster works such as Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code, and the top romances, most authors are writing more books, but the numbers of copies of each title sold tend to be lower.
The Future of Fiction? Its meaning? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2008
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