“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: "The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone." ~ Donna Tartt ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Writing… Continue reading FREE PERIOD — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "A novel is a daily labor over a period of years. A novel is a job. But a story can be like a mad, lovely visitor, with whom you spend a rather exciting weekend.”~ Lorrie Moore ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Having conflict cannot be overstated in our writing. No… Continue reading ELEPHANT TOUCH — Review
Thought for the Day: "The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck." ~ Ernest Hemingway ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Janice Hardy at Fiction University always… Continue reading DEER RUN HOME — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon." ~ Ann Patchett ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Livia Blackburn wrote a good post HERE on A Brain Scientist’s Take on… Continue reading PLAGUE THIEVES — Review & Giveaway
Thought for the Day: "Never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things—childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves—that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers." ~ Salman Rushdie ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Many years ago, I was in… Continue reading THE HOTEL BALZAAR — Review
Thought for the Day: "There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you." ~ Beatrix Potter ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Excellent character description can add so much to a story. HERE Rebecca McClanahan, writing for Writer’s Digest, gives us 11 Secrets to… Continue reading COYOTE LOST AND FOUND — Review
Thought for the Day: "Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest you can think of, and spend the rest of your life carrying it out."~ Harry S. Truman ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Naming of characters can carry a lot of water for writers. HERE Becca Puglisi of Writers… Continue reading TRASHED — Review
Thought for the Day: "To imagine yourself inside another person…is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose."~ Eudora Welty ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: I don't know that I have seen many posts on dealing with the grief our characters… Continue reading THE HAUNTING OF LAKE LUCY — 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: "Just because we are aware of the need for the inciting incident doesn't mean we shouldn't spend the time carefully crafting how we arrive at this point."~ Ran Walker ~ Gifts for My Writer Friends: Lying is on my mind these days as a certain candidate in the election goes on… Continue reading TREE. TABLE. BOOK. — Review & Giveaway
Rosi Hollinbeck 