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Greetings Kossacks. In place of our usual praiseworthy prose pumping our favored scribblers - and the occasional subtle insertion of a moral or historical tale, or even the assertion that a certain major political candidate resembles Nosferatu the prince of the undead - we instead are gonna craft a plea for other contributors to the series. And explain a little about what we are trying to accomplish here, which works on several levels. Most obviously, this is a forum for those who want to diary about their favorite authors and make the rest of us want to read them. This is especially relevant if the author is perhaps not as well known as he or she should be, maybe just starting out even (although self-promoters are not welcome in this series). And of course topicality is welcome too.
But there are other things we are trying to accomplish here. Let's descend below the fold. . .