Thought for the Day: "The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right thefirst time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better,find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."~ Robert Cormier ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: If you are writing historical fiction, the Writer’s… Continue reading Nanny X — Review and Giveaway
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My Cousin’s Keeper — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“A children’s story which is enjoyed only by children isa bad children’s story.”~ C.S.Lewis ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Aerogramme Writer’s Studio has a post HERE on revision called Polish Your Prose: An Editorial Cheat Sheet. It’s good. Writer’s Digest published a great article by Elizabeth Sims HERE on how to add… Continue reading My Cousin’s Keeper — Review and Giveaway
The Secrets of Tree Taylor — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse… Continue reading The Secrets of Tree Taylor — Review and Giveaway
Guilty? Crime, Punishment and the Changing Face of Justice — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.” ~Herman Melville ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writer’s Digest is starting off the New Year with 50 Articles on Writing to Help You in 2015. Something for everyone HERE. Janice Hardy at Fiction University starts the New Year HERE with a… Continue reading Guilty? Crime, Punishment and the Changing Face of Justice — Review and Giveaway
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
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