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Aim — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to myliterary thinking all my life.”  ~ Hunter S. Thompson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Angela Ackerman has a good one HERE called Let’s Get Sensory: Powering Scenes Using the 5 Senses. Dr. John Yeoman has a fun and useful post HERE called How… Continue reading Aim — Review and Giveaway

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Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day:“What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.”~ Holly Goldberg Sloan ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Tired of your characters all sounding alike. Kathy Temean at Writing and Illustrating has a good post HERE on giving your characters unique voices.Angela Ackerman did a great gust post HERE on 5… Continue reading Counting by 7s — Review and Giveaway

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Forget Black Friday…and a Book Give-Away

Forget the crowds and the lines and staying up all night. Give the gift of stories and reading this year. AND you don’t have to spend a lot of time sorting through all the books out there. I’ve been writing book reviews for this blog and for the Sacramento Book Review this year, so I… Continue reading Forget Black Friday…and a Book Give-Away

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It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan

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. Oh, and I love comments.Some years ago when I first began writing seriously, I got together with a few others and we tried to start a critique group.… Continue reading It’s Okay to Know Everything: A Review of I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan