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September 2016 FREE BOOK Winner!
Congratulations to Brenda Backus who won our free book this month! Brenda, I’ll be sending you a copy of Ann Chandonnet’s THE PIONEER VILLAGE COOKBOOK next week! Please message me with your address on Facebook or email me at sue@sueharrison.com. Brenda’s favorite recipe is Potato Candy, an old-fashioned candy recipe her mother used to make! Blessings…
SNECK
Wild Word Friday! Snitch, snatched, have SNECK? I don’t think that would pass muster with most English teachers, but the words are related – not in the sense of tenses, but as “cousins,” descendants of the same Middle English word, snecchen or snacchen – to snatch or grab something. SNECK is a dialectical form that…
PALE
Wild Word Friday! When I hear the word PALE I usually think of the color of my skin. But there is an older nearly obsolete meaning for the word PALE , which comes to the English language from the Latin word palus, a stake. A PALE was a pointed, narrow, upright piece of wood. Generally,…
August 2017 FREE BOOK!
It’s my joy to offer two books this month, BREATHE BREATHE, a poetry chapbook, that includes two short stories, by my friend Erin Sweet Al-Mehairi and BITTER, SWEET by another friend, Canadian author Laura Best. Both women are blessed with the ability to etch a heart-rending and heart-healing picture through their elegant words. From the…
JUNE 2023 FREE BOOK!
This month, it’s my privilege to give away one of my favorite novels ever, THE PORCELAIN MOON by Janie Chang! From the publisher–“Set against the little-known history of the 140,000 Chinese workers brought to Europe [France] as noncombatant labor during WWI, THE PORCELAIN MOON is a tale of forbidden love, identity and belonging, and what…