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Avi Katz, Barbara Krasner, book review, Katherine Anne Porter, Liesl's Ocean Rescue, Ship of Fools

Liesl’s Ocean Rescue — Review and Giveaway

This is a special edition of The Write Stuff to run in conjunction with Susanna Leonard Hill's Perfect Picture Book Friday. If you aren't familiar with Susanna, she is pretty much the queen of picture book blogging with all kinds of contests, reviews, and opportunities for writers on her blog. You can click HERE to… Continue reading Liesl’s Ocean Rescue — Review and Giveaway

book review, Courage for Beginners, Karen Harrington, Kristin Levine, Madeleine L'Engle, Shannon Messenger, The Paper Cowboy

The Paper Cowboy — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we… Continue reading The Paper Cowboy — Review and Giveaway

Book Giveaway, book review, Courage for Beginners, Darcy Pattison, Dash, Janice Hardy, Karen Harrington, Kirby Larson, Luke Sullivan, Sure Signs of Crazy

Courage for Beginners — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “Creativity is like washing a pig. It’s messy. It has no rules. No clear beginning, middle or end. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, and when you’re done, you’re not sure if the pig is really clean or even why you were washing a pig in the first place.” ~ Luke Sullivan ~ Gifts… Continue reading Courage for Beginners — Review and Giveaway

All Four Stars, Book Giveaway, Dash, San Francisco Book Review, Tara Dairman

Dash by Kirby Larson — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it.Get over it.”~ Twyla Tharp ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Anne R. Allen has a post all of us need at one time or another. Click HERE to read 14 Block-Busting Never-Fail Tips Every Writer Needs to Know. Fiction University… Continue reading Dash by Kirby Larson — Review and Giveaway

All Four Stars, book review, K. M. Weiland, Ray Bradbury, Tara Dairman, The Secret Hum of a Daisy, Writer's Rumpus

All Four Stars — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious,  and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” ~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: K. M. Weiland has a list HERE of ten tools to make writers more efficient. Check it out. For… Continue reading All Four Stars — Review and Giveaway

Family Ties, Gary Paulsen, Kate DiCamillo, Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, San Francisco Book Review, The Secret Hum of a Daisy, Tracy Holczer

The Secret Hum of a Daisy — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace themwith dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hityears later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you,‘I’d like my crayons… Continue reading The Secret Hum of a Daisy — Review and Giveaway

Book Reviews, Clara Bowman-Jahn, Family Ties, Gary Paulsen, Kate DiCamillo, Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, Ray Bradbury, San Francisco Book Review

Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties

Thought for the Day: “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something worth living for.”~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Pen & Muse… Continue reading Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties

Book Giveaway, book review, Briar Rose, Jane Yolen, Josh Berk, Say It Ain't So, Sharon Creech, The Secret at Haney Field, Walk Two Moons

The Secret at Haney Field — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “Mistakes are part of the dues that one pays for a full life.”~ Sophia Loren ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Editor reminds us HERE that our characters do not live in a vacuum. Not only does nature abhor a vacuum, but our readers do as well. Read this one. Such… Continue reading The Secret at Haney Field — Review and Giveaway

Barbara Krasner, book review, Goldie Takes a Stand, Josh Berk, Nancy Castaldo, Ralph Waldo Emerson, San Francisco Book Review, Say It Ain't So, Sniffer Dogs

Say It Ain’t So by Josh Berk — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy’s Fiction University has an interesting post called Why Should Anyone Help Your Protagonist. This will give you much to ponder. Click HERE to read it. The Editor’s Blog… Continue reading Say It Ain’t So by Josh Berk — Review and Giveaway