Starting off today, I want to share this cute meme a friend sent me. If you’re anything like me, you have more books than your shelves, or your e-reader, can hold. I wonder if that’s why my Kindle is dying a slow death? It’s getting choked with content. 🙂 I try to resist getting more […]
Those of you who regularly read my blog know that I love to have authors as guests. It’s always so nice to learn a little more about the author, the work, and the interesting things that happen in this wacky world of writing. I’m so thrilled to have James as my Wednesday’s Guest today. Enjoy…
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Now a couple of things I need to comment about. Things that have rankled for quite some time. First off, a note to reporters on NPR, especially those contributing to the morning news program Up First. It only lasts about ten minutes, and I listen almost every day, appreciating the quick update on things that
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Being a naturalized Texan, meaning I’ve lived her long enough to be considered almost a native, I’m pleased to be able to showcase this new book that is part history and part celebration of the Lone Star State. Enter the giveaway to win a copy and some cool swag. TO THE REPUBLIC The Republic Series,
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THE MAD RAMBLINGS OF A JOKER By Brandon Dillon Publisher: Paper Airplane PublishingPub Date: January 24, 2021Pages: 156 pagesCategories: Poetry / Psychology / PTSD / Veteran Stories Scroll for Giveaway! +++ BOOK BLURB +++ Poet Brandon Dillon makes his debut with The Mad Ramblings of a Joker, a brutally honest collection full of metaphor and vibrant
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Before I started writing novels and screenplays, I was a journalist, working for a few regional and national publications. At the regional level, I wrote two newspaper columns, one humorous and one general. At that second gig, I could write anything I wanted, oh bless that editor’s heart who let me do that! Often those
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THE TAKEAWAY MEN By Meryl Ain Publisher: SparkPressPub Date: August 4th, 2020Pages: 265 pagesCategories: Historical / Jewish Literature / Sibling Fiction / Holocaust With the cloud of the Holocaust still looming over them, twin sisters Bronka and Johanna Lubinski and their parents arrive in the US from a Displaced Persons Camp. In the years after
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A friend sent me this meme. The same one who sends me the humorous ones, and I contemplated this for a bit, thinking about how it applies to both of us, as well as all artists. My friend is a visual artist, primarily sculpting, while I’m a word artist, but we’ve bonded through the years
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. The pandemic sure is taking it’s toll on folks, a fact that Janice and Annette can testify to. Sometimes it makes us say the oddest things, and it’s hard to recognize a joke when we can’t see a smile. Before turning the blog over to Slim,
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A WALL OF BRIGHT DEAD FEATHERS By Babette Fraser Hale Publisher: Winedale Publishing Pages: 216 Pub Date: March 1st, 2021 Categories: Short Stories / Literary Fiction Scroll for Giveaway! Most are newcomers to the scenic, rolling countryside of central Texas whose charms they romanticize, even as the troubles they hoped to leave behind persist. Twelve
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