Thought for the Day:"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life." ~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:We can all learn from the masters. HERE is a list… Continue reading Big Top Burning — Review and Giveaway
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Mister Max: The Book of Kings — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Almost anything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes. Even you.” ~ Annie Lamott ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Stephanie Gayle did an interesting guest post on The Writer’s Dig that outlines seven fatal flaws that will tell you your novel isn’t ready to submit. You can find it HERE. Number… Continue reading Mister Max: The Book of Kings — Review and Giveaway
Juba! A Novel by Walter Dean Myers — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing,and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”~ Robert De Niro, actor ~Gifts for My Writer FriendsThe Writer’s Circle post on useless words is a really good one. The word THAT is one we… Continue reading Juba! A Novel by Walter Dean Myers — Review and Giveaway
The Looney Experiment — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“I have often thought that this [East of Eden] might be my last book.I don't really mean that because I will be writing books until I die. ButI want to write this one as though it were my last book. MaybeI believe that every book should be written that way.” ~ John… Continue reading The Looney Experiment — Review and Giveaway
The Girl in the Torch — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you… Continue reading The Girl in the Torch — Review and Giveaway
Water Runs Through This Book — Review and TRIPLE Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:GREAT post on commas HERE. The comma is the most misused punctuation in America. Anne R. Allen has some fun Tips for… Continue reading Water Runs Through This Book — Review and TRIPLE Giveaway
Blue Birds — Review and Giveaway
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
Ranger in Time:Danger in Ancient Rome — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know ten dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.” ~ Ernest Hemingway ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:The Editor’s Blog has a… Continue reading Ranger in Time:Danger in Ancient Rome — Review and Giveaway
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
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
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