Thought for the Day: “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”~ Maya Angelou ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writers Helping Writers has an interesting guest post by Jennie Nash about overcoming book doubts. Click HERE to read it. Janice Hardy at Fiction University has some great ideas for ways to your… Continue reading Gracefully Grayson — Review and Giveaway
Category: San Francisco Book Review
A Plague of Unicorns by Jane Yolen — Review, Author Interview, and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Fairy tales are more than true, not because they tell us dragons exist,but because they tell us dragons can be beaten."~ G.K. Chesterton ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Through the Tollbooth has a GREAT post on Creating Character Contradictions you can find HERE. This is one of the best posts I’ve… Continue reading A Plague of Unicorns by Jane Yolen — Review, Author Interview, and Giveaway
Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” ~ George Orwell ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: One of the critique groups… Continue reading Ghostly Evidence — Review and Giveaway
Poisoned Apples — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting tomeet a duck because you like paté.”~ Margaret Atwood ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Augusta Scattergood, my Highlight’s workshop friend and award-winning author of Glory Be, who blogs HERE, tipped me to a great blog post by Dorian Cirrone… Continue reading Poisoned Apples — Review and Giveaway
At Your Service — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~ AA Milne ~Gifts for My Writer Friends:Aerogramme Writer’s Studio has posted top ten tips for writers by Geoff Dyer. This is one of the best tips columns I’ve seen. Click HERE to check it out. Writer’s Digest has a… Continue reading At Your Service — Review and Giveaway
Dash by Kirby Larson — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it.Get over it.”~ Twyla Tharp ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Anne R. Allen has a post all of us need at one time or another. Click HERE to read 14 Block-Busting Never-Fail Tips Every Writer Needs to Know. Fiction University… Continue reading Dash by Kirby Larson — Review and Giveaway
The Secret Hum of a Daisy — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace themwith dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hityears later with the ‘creative bug’ is just a wee voice telling you,‘I’d like my crayons… Continue reading The Secret Hum of a Daisy — Review and Giveaway
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
Say It Ain’t So by Josh Berk — Review and Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy’s Fiction University has an interesting post called Why Should Anyone Help Your Protagonist. This will give you much to ponder. Click HERE to read it. The Editor’s Blog… Continue reading Say It Ain’t So by Josh Berk — Review and Giveaway
Sniffer Dogs by Nancy Castaldo — Review, Interview, & Giveaway
Thought for the Day:"Good observers have the manners of trees and animals, and if they add words, it is only when words are better than silence. But a vain talker profanes the river and the forest, and is nothing like so good company as a dog.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writers Helping… Continue reading Sniffer Dogs by Nancy Castaldo — Review, Interview, & Giveaway
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