“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ~ Anna Quindlen
Thought for the Day: "Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." ~ Mark Twain ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I don’t think I pay as much attention to my secondary characters as I should. In fact, a… Continue reading THE KING OF JAM SANDWICHES — Review
Thought for the Day: “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”~ Louis L’Amour ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I never tire of reading good articles about creating villains. HERE Sarah Allen from Sarah’s Smorgasbord has a great article about Writing a Satisfying Self-Destructive Villain. Her… Continue reading MYSTERY AT THE BILTMORE: THE VANDERHOFF HEIST — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head." ~ Tim O'Brien ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Show, don’t tell, but with… Continue reading WILD WAVE — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.” ~ Stephen King ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: If you want to get geeky about grammar, Tiffany Yates Martin might be the go-to gal… Continue reading MUMMIES UNWRAPPED — Review
Thought for the Day: “You have to learn to take rejection not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.”~ Ray Bradbury ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: This is something I think a lot of writers struggle with, especially with today's climate in publishing, so when I found the post HERE… Continue reading WILD RIVER — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”~ Tom Stoppard ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all want our characters to be memorable. Lisa Hall-Wilson has written a fun and useful post HERE on Writers… Continue reading A WALK THROUGH THE RAINFOREST — Review
Thought for the Day: “When it comes to people - don’t write about who you know, but what you know of human nature.”~ Candace Bushnell ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: In my early days of writing, I formed a critique group. One of the writers insisted that all writing had to be in a… Continue reading ARTEMIS SPARKE AND THE SOUND SEEKERS BRIGADE — Review
Thought for the Day: "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: It is always a good idea to get new ideas about building characters. HERE on A Writer's Path, Georgio Konstandi has a good post on Creating that… Continue reading THE PRINCE OF THE STEEL PIER — Review
Thought for the Day: “Sure, it’s simple, writing for kids… Just as simple as bringing them up.”~ Ursula K. LeGuin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: You can’t have a good story without a solid story premise. HERE C. S. Lakin has a great piece on Crafting a Compelling Story Premise. If our characters don’t… Continue reading The Hike to Home — Review
Thought for the Day: "You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart -- your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were… Continue reading Every Missing Piece — Review & Giveaway
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