Thought for the Day: “You might not write well every day, but you can edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.” ~ Jodi Picoult ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all hit creative slumps, so when I saw the post HERE by Macy Thornhill guesting on The Creative Penn, I thought… Continue reading Double Review & Giveaway — A Piglet Called Truffle & A Duckling Called Button
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Wildfire — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing." ~ Margaret Atwood ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I know a lot of you have an interest in writing historical fiction. K. M. Weiland has a good post HERE with 7 tips for researching when writing historical… Continue reading Wildfire — Review & Giveaway
Small as an Elephant — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my… Continue reading Small as an Elephant — Review & Giveaway
Free Lunch — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you… Continue reading Free Lunch — Review & Giveaway
Cryptid Creatures — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.” ~ P.L. Travers ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: We all try not to write boring characters. Martin Cavannaugh has a good guest post HERE on Literary Rambles that… Continue reading Cryptid Creatures — Review & Giveaway
On Snowden Mountain — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare.” ~ Bobby Knight ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: HERE is a cute graphic post to help you know filler words you can cut easily. Suzanne Purvis is HERE at Fiction University to help you punch… Continue reading On Snowden Mountain — Review & Giveaway
Cody and the Heart of a Champion — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it." ~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Cliffhangers are a great way to keep those pages turning. Anne R. Allen’s partner Ruth Harris has a… Continue reading Cody and the Heart of a Champion — Review & Giveaway
Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of 'The Elements of Style.' The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.” ~ Dorothy Parker ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Jane… Continue reading Simon Grey and the March of a Hundred Ghosts — Review & Giveaway
My Fate According to the Butterfly — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~ Will Durant ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: David Griffin Brown has a guest post HERE on The Creative Penn that will help you create memorable characters. Edie Jarolim has a post HERE with 5… Continue reading My Fate According to the Butterfly — Review & Giveaway
The Dollar Kids — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: “Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.” ~ Ray Bradbury ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: In the very first critique group I joined, a long, long time ago, one of the participants told us… Continue reading The Dollar Kids — Review & Giveaway
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