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
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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
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
Smile — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "When you write any book you do not know who's going to read it, and you do not know when they're going to read it. You don't know who they will be, you don't know their age, or gender, or nationality, or anything else about them.So books, anyway, really are like… Continue reading Smile — Review and Giveaway
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
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
Sniffer Dogs by Nancy Castaldo — Review, Interview, & Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, and if they add words, it is only when words are better than silence. But a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writers Helping… Continue reading Sniffer Dogs by Nancy Castaldo — Review, Interview, & Giveaway
Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." ~ Robert Frost ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Editor’s Blog has a terrific post that will answer a LOT of questions about quotations and italics usage. Click HERE. Since marketing is increasingly becoming the purview of authors, HERE is… Continue reading Goldie Takes a Stand by Barbara Krasner — Review & Giveaway
The Other Half of My Heart — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ~ Maya Angelou ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Fiction University has a great post on character development you can find HERE. The ladies at Writers Helping Writers have a fantastic post on how to have your characters show what… Continue reading The Other Half of My Heart — Review and Giveaway
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