Tonight and tomorrow I will be in Tyler, TX for the East Texas Bookfest in Tyler, Texas, and, as usual, I left too many things until the last minute, so I will be busy most of today getting everything in order. There are always so many little details, like don’t forget the flyers and your […]
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Today one of my frequent Wednesday’s Guests is over at The Blood Red Pencil, sharing some tips on improving the vocabulary of young people today. It is a fun post, so I hope you can hop over and see how Alphonse proposes to help kids, like, talk better. I am a guest on Terry Odell’s
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When I was a kid, my sister and I played often with sock puppets. Sometimes, when we were feeling a little silly while folding clothes, we would put a sock on our hands and have a little puppet show until our mother made us get back to the job. (Picture from Playsational) That is what
If you enjoy reading books such as the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, then you’ll love this new release, 25 Years in The Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back. It is now available as a bargain e-book for Kindle, Nook, Smashwords, Kobo, and more. This collection of poignant and uplifting essays is the perfect
Initially my plan for today’s blog was to write about Robin Roberts and all the attention she is getting regarding her illness and treatment. My husband commented yesterday that he found all that media attention a bit disheartening since there are so many other everyday people who are fighting terrible diseases, and they do not
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Before we get into the fun part of today’s post, I just want to mention that my short story, The Visitor, is free today then tomorrow, One Small Victory goes free for five days. This will be the last time One Small Victory will be free, but I will occasionally put a short story free
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It’s Monday morning and I was so busy trying to get QR Codes for all my books and finalize a flyer to take to an upcoming book festival, I almost forgot to do a blog. Have you ever done that? Get so wrapped up in a task you forget something important. Not that blogging is
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The Spaniel Family’s ThanksgivingBy Sharon EllsberryIllustrated by Amy FoxISBN 978-0-9790777-2-2website http://www.gospaniels.com/ You may have noticed that I love children’s books. With no young kids or grandkids to read to in recent years, I’d forgotten how much I loved them, until I started meeting some authors who write children’s books. One of those authors is
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Today, I’m over at The Blood Red Pencil where the topic is the differences between the way men and women talk. Hop on over if you have a moment. A high-rent area of Dallas, Highland Park, is banning the use of artificial grass. “Plastic grass is not in keeping with the quality of design we
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Please help me welcome Doug Corleone to It’s Not All Gravy. Doug is the author of the Kevin Corvelli crime novels published by St. Martin’s Minotaur. A former New York City criminal defense attorney, Doug now resides in the Hawaiian Islands, where he is currently at work on his next novel. My daughter was stationed