LIBRARY
Wild Word Friday! You don’t get much wilder than a LIBRARY. What? Really, you don’t. You can pull a book from a LIBRARY shelf and become Frankenstein or Hannibal the Cannibal or Alexander the Great. You can be a pioneer child in the big woods of Wisconsin or find a hidden treasure large enough to make you into the…
About People You Don’t Like
I’m rewriting a scene in the third draft of my novel PRODIGY. The scene introduces two FBI agents. They’re minor characters, and I never get into their thoughts. One of them is an okay, likable guy, but the other is really irritating. My problem? I just can’t picture the irritating one. His hair color, his eyes, nose,…
Books I Love/On Becoming A Novelist
ON BECOMING A NOVELIST by John Gardner is an incredible book about the “getting there” process of becoming a novelist. My copy is falling apart at every seam and page, but I still keep it handy for inspiration as I write.
CACHINNATION
Wild Word Friday! Last week I was rereading one of my favorite novels, JANE EYRE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Charlotte Bronte. In the part of the novel when Jane was employed as a governess, she would hear an eerie laugh in the middle of the night. She described that laughter as CACHINNATION. I’ve read JANE EYRE at…
About November
About You! November is one of those months that I both love and dread. I love that November (in the US anyway) means Thanksgiving, the beginning of holiday celebrations, a time that reminds us to be grateful. I dread that the days are short and often gray, that the trees are bare and that November…
Nov. 2011 Free Book!
ALMOST HEAVEN by Chris Fabry is about as close to heaven as you can get with a book. I absolutely loved this story, the characters and the author’s skill in word use. Not only is ALMOST HEAVEN a Christy Award Winner, it’s also a Christian Book Award winner. From the back cover: “Some people say…
Oct. 2011 Book Winner!
Congratulations to Sarah McHatton who won our October Free Book – THE GIRL IN THE GATEHOUSE! I’ll be sending the book your way, Sarah. Tomorrow I’ll post information about our November, 2011, Free Book tomorrow. I hope everyone will post a reply for a chance to win! Blessings! Sue
Books I Love/PRAYERS FOR SALE
My reading group chose the historical novel PRAYERS FOR SALE by Sandra Dallas as our October book. Great choice! From the back cover: “A powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between two women and the secrets they’ve kept in order to survive life in a rugged Colorado mining town.” I love this book because the main character…
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