All Four Stars, book review, K. M. Weiland, Ray Bradbury, Tara Dairman, The Secret Hum of a Daisy, Writer's Rumpus

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

Book Reviews, Clara Bowman-Jahn, Family Ties, Gary Paulsen, Kate DiCamillo, Leroy Ninker Saddles Up, Ray Bradbury, San Francisco Book Review

Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties

Thought for the Day: “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something worth living for.”~ Ray Bradbury ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: The Pen & Muse… Continue reading Double Review and Giveaway — Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Family Ties

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Will in Scarlet — Review and Giveaway

Thought for the Day: “Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer.”  ~ Ray Bradbury~Some Gifts for My Writer Friends:  Barbara Krasner of The Whole… Continue reading Will in Scarlet — Review and Giveaway

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A Review, An Interview, and a Giveaway – What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen

Thought for the day:  “You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.”  ~ Ray Bradbury (We will miss you, Ray Bradbury!!)Some gifts for my writer friends. The following are links I think… Continue reading A Review, An Interview, and a Giveaway – What She Left Behind by Tracy Bilen

Barbara Kingsolver, John Steinbeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House on the Prairie, Pat Frank, Ray Bradbury, William Golding

Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder

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."A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at… Continue reading Visiting My Old Friend Laura Ingalls Wilder