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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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
Talk About Language! A Review of Healing Waters: A Hawaiian Story by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
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. Spurring me on this week is the following quote."Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same… Continue reading Talk About Language! A Review of Healing Waters: A Hawaiian Story by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
A Magical Highlights Retreat
It has been a while since I’ve posted, but I’ve been away at a writer’s retreat and have been far too busy to blog –in a good way.First, some news – I want to announce I had a poem (one that I really think is a rhyming picture book) called The Monster Hairy Brown, chosen… Continue reading A Magical Highlights Retreat
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