Thought for the Day:“The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.” ~ Thomas Hardy ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Adventures in YA Publishing has a terrific post HERE on making any scene more interesting. Check it out. K.M. Weiland has a terrific post… Continue reading Blue Birds — Review and Giveaway
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The Tapper Twins Go to War (with each other) — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book.” ~ Philip Pullman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I know some of you write picture books or want to. I have several PB manuscripts I’m working on in addition to… Continue reading The Tapper Twins Go to War (with each other) — Review and Giveaway
Random Body Parts — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't beenwritten yet, then you must write it."~ Toni Morrison ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Through the Tollbooth has a very useful post HERE on writing from the antagonist’s point of view. It’s worth your time. Writer’s Helping Writers… Continue reading Random Body Parts — Review and Giveaway
My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The trick is to pay attention to what you wrote – not whatyou THOUGHT you wrote.”~ David Lubar on fixing mistakes ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy again has a very useful post over at Fiction University. This one is on working with multiple point of view characters. Click… Continue reading My Near-Death Adventures (99% True!) — Review and Giveaway
Fatal Fever — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Sometimes I think I should just start a blog that does nothing but link to Janice Hardy’s… Continue reading Fatal Fever — Review and Giveaway
All We Left Behind: Virginia Reed and the Donner Party – Review, Giveaway, and Author Interview
Thought for the Day: "Formats and approaches and publishers' wants are constantlychanging. STORY stays as the one great constant. The challenge isto find the way to tell your story in a way that is true to it ANDthat works for the market of the day."~ Harold Underdown ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends:Anne Greenwood Brown… Continue reading All We Left Behind: Virginia Reed and the Donner Party – Review, Giveaway, and Author Interview
Anyone but Ivy Pocket — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Forget about inspiration. You won’t get anything done sitting around waiting for it to strike. Creativity is work. It requires discipline, tenacity, undeviating routine, and the total investment of both body and mind.”~ Twyla Tharp ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Guardian has a fun article HERE on the Top… Continue reading Anyone but Ivy Pocket — Review and Giveaway
Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls — Review, Giveaway, and Author Interview
Thought for the Day: “Every time you look at a blank piece of paper, you’re doing something new. You have to step onto that blank territory and remind yourself the sky didn’t fall in the last time you wrote. Writing is a question of overcoming your fears—and everybody has them.” ~ William Zinsser ~Gifts for… Continue reading Imogene and the Case of the Missing Pearls — Review, Giveaway, and Author Interview
Squeeze Play — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “I just give myself permission to suck. I delete about 90 percent of my first drafts … so it doesn’t really matter much if on a particular day I write beautiful and brilliant prose that will stick in the minds of my readers forever, because there’s a 90 percent chance I’m… Continue reading Squeeze Play — Review and Giveaway
The Perfect Place — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Remember, the villain is always the hero in his own story. Wanting to‘rule the world’ just to ‘rule the world’ is for cartoons.”~ Kristen Lamb ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: This isn’t the sort of thing I usually link, but I found a great site for people concerned about helping kids… Continue reading The Perfect Place — Review and Giveaway
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