Thought for the Day: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ~ Oscar Wilde ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Adventures in YA Publishing has a great guest post HERE by Jake Kerr all about pacing. A great way to add tension is to make your characters uncomfortable. Janice Hardy at Fiction University has… Continue reading Last Minute Shopping Tips and a Giveaway
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Gracefully Grayson — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”~ Maya Angelou ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writers Helping Writers has an interesting guest post by Jennie Nash about overcoming book doubts. Click HERE to read it. Janice Hardy at Fiction University has some great ideas for ways to your… Continue reading Gracefully Grayson — Review and Giveaway
A Plague of Unicorns by Jane Yolen — Review, Author Interview, and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist,but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."~ G.K. Chesterton ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Through the Tollbooth has a GREAT post on Creating Character Contradictions you can find HERE. This is one of the best posts I’ve… Continue reading A Plague of Unicorns by Jane Yolen — Review, Author Interview, and Giveaway
Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ~ George Orwell ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: One of the critique groups… Continue reading Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
Poisoned Apples — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting tomeet a duck because you like paté.”~ Margaret Atwood ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Augusta Scattergood, my Highlight’s workshop friend and award-winning author of Glory Be, who blogs HERE, tipped me to a great blog post by Dorian Cirrone… Continue reading Poisoned Apples — Review and Giveaway
Breadcrumbs — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silentplace if no birds sang except the best.”~ Henry van Dyke, poet~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writers Helping Writers are busy helping writers again with a guest post HERE by Warren Adler with 11 Novelist-Tested Ways to Defeat Writer's… Continue reading Breadcrumbs — Review and Giveaway
At Your Service — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~ AA Milne ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Aerogramme Writer’s Studio has posted top ten tips for writers by Geoff Dyer. This is one of the best tips columns I’ve seen. Click HERE to check it out. Writer’s Digest has a… Continue reading At Your Service — Review and Giveaway
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
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
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
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