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The Girl in the Well is Me — Review

Thought for the Day:"If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once."  ~ Tana French ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Authors Publish has a post HERE by Emily Harstone that lists 25 publishers who accept submissions without an agent. This is worth looking… Continue reading The Girl in the Well is Me — Review

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Mayday — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”~ Boris Pasternak ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Maybe the best two minutes you will spend this month can be found HERE. Anne R. Allen’s Blog has a must-read post that is full of links to help… Continue reading Mayday — Review and Giveaway

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Aim — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to myliterary thinking all my life.”  ~ Hunter S. Thompson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Angela Ackerman has a good one HERE called Let’s Get Sensory: Powering Scenes Using the 5 Senses. Dr. John Yeoman has a fun and useful post HERE called How… Continue reading Aim — Review and Giveaway

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Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.”~ Holly Goldberg Sloan ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Tired of your characters all sounding alike. Kathy Temean at Writing and Illustrating has a good post HERE on giving your characters unique voices.Angela Ackerman did a great gust post HERE on 5… Continue reading Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway

Alison McGhee, book review, Kathi Appelt, Lauren Wolk, Maybe a Fox, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wolf Hollow, Writing

Wolf Hollow — a Review

Thought for the Day:“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate thebeautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.”~ T.S. Eliot ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Steven Pressfield has a really interesting post HERE about writing out of sequence. I never would have thought of doing this, but now maybe I… Continue reading Wolf Hollow — a Review

Alison McGhee, book review, Children's Writing, Emelia Whippie Prior, J. J. Prior, Kathi Appelt, Maybe a Fox, Patriot Papers, Writing

Maybe a Fox — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:"Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write.Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that buildswithin you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as… Continue reading Maybe a Fox — Review and Giveaway

Emelia Whippie Prior, Patriot Papers

Patriot Papers — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:"Gather knowledge about the craft of writing. Immerse yourself in the art of it. Then write. Write yourself silly. Write yourself mad. Write yourself blind. Trust the excitement that builds within you when the idea is good and the writing is superb. You can do it, but that's the hell of it as well as… Continue reading Patriot Papers — Review and Giveaway

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The Sleepover — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:"When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand."~ Raymond Chandler ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Sue Colletta wrote a very useful post on The Wicked Writing Blog HERE that has 10  ways to keep readers enthralled. I saw myself in this post by Janice Hardy on Fiction… Continue reading The Sleepover — Review and Giveaway

A Weird and Wild Beauty, book review, Carole Estby Dagg, Children's Writing, Erin Peabody, Sweet Home Alaska, Writing

Sweet Home Alaska — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“Patience is also a form of action.” ~ Auguste Rodin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:Rejections got you down? Maybe you shouldn’t let it get to you so much. Find out HERE why. Keeping your characters in character is pretty darned important. HERE at Through the Tollbooth, Catherine Linka gives us some pretty darned good… Continue reading Sweet Home Alaska — Review and Giveaway

A Weird and Wild Beauty, book review, Children's Writing, Cici Reno: #MiddleSchoolMatchmaker, Erin Peabody, Kristina Springer, San Francisco Book Review, Writing

A Weird and Wild Beauty — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader. Not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”~ E.L. Doctorow ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Greg Pattridge has come up with a good method HERE to avoid slowing your story down with too much back story. Overused words? Erika… Continue reading A Weird and Wild Beauty — Review and Giveaway