If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do. Oh, and I love comments.Some years ago when I first began writing seriously, I got together with a few others and we tried to start a critique group.… Continue reading It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan
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A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog so you'll be counted as a reader. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.It’s been a bit of a gap since my last post, but I’ve been very busy with reading and writing and baseball.… Continue reading A Couple of Things and a Review of Chris Crutcher’s Angry Management
Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A year or so ago, my sister Tudy gave me a book she had enjoyed: Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen. I was transported to a small town… Continue reading Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review
A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.I spent four days last week in Boyds Mills, Pennsylvania at a terrific workshop for writers of non-fiction. The wonderful people from Highlights Magazine run a series of workshops… Continue reading A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi
Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do."A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at… Continue reading Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder
Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire
If you are reading this in your email, don’t forget to click on the headline to go to my blog. If you haven’t subscribed yet, please do.A couple of posts ago, I reviewed a book I LOVE called Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards. If you haven’t read this… Continue reading Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire
Freeeeeee Stuff!
If you are reading this in your email, please click on the title of the blog. It will take you to my blog and two things will happen: I will know how many people are really reading my blog and you can leave a comment at the end of the post. If you aren’t reading… Continue reading Freeeeeee Stuff!
Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards — A Review
My friend Mitty – AKA Elizabeth Varadan of The Fourth Wish blog – wrote a review for the Sacramento Book Review of Three Rivers Rising: a Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards. First, I must admit I have a kind of voyeuristic fascination with disasters. Secondly, I love historical fiction. Thirdly, if Mitty… Continue reading Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards — A Review
Another Writer’s Contest and a Winning Week for Me!
Another quick blog today with news that may be important to you as a writer, followed by news about me as a writer, followed by blogging awards I'm handing out. First, there is another contest for writers that I think is a wonderful opportunity. I’ve read it’s harder to land an agent than a publisher.… Continue reading Another Writer’s Contest and a Winning Week for Me!
Writer’s Contest
Just a quick post to all my writing readers. There is a terrific contest going on right now. If you go to http://deareditor.com/2011/04/15/newsflash-a-deareditor-com-free-fiction-edit-giveaway/ you can get all the details. To celebrate the completion of her final manuscript for Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies, the Editor is giving away a FREE Substantive Edit of one… Continue reading Writer’s Contest
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