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Audrey Wait, Highlights Founders Workshops, Lesley Kagen, Robin Benway, Whistling in the Dark

Land of a Hundred Wonders by Lesley Kagen — A Book Review

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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

High Five Magazine, Highlights Founders Workshops, Highlights Magazine, Peter Jacobi

A Highlights Founders Workshop with Peter Jacobi

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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

Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Pat Frank, Ray Bradbury, William Golding

Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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, Jame Richards, writer

Interview with Jame Richards, Writer Extraordinaire

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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

Elizabeth Varadan, Jame Richards, Johnstown Flood, Sacramento Book Review

Three Rivers Rising by Jame Richards — A Review

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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

awards, Writing contests

Another Writer’s Contest and a Winning Week for Me!

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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!

Writing contests

Writer’s Contest

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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