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To improve your craft as a writer, one of the best things you can do is to read. Toward that end, I invite you to join me for book blogger Michelle Miller’s annual holiday reading challenge. Some of the titles that I have selected to read for this year’s challenge include Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Cleveland Amory’s … Continue Reading

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Today is the National Day on Writing (Note:  Above website is so jammed today that it’s like the day Target started selling Missoni!) Comment below about why you write before this Sunday night and be entered to win your choice of a book of quotes or bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick’s latest novel. The New York Times is running a Twitter campaign based on the National Day on … Continue Reading

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SUPPORT OUR TROUPS BY DONATING YOUR BOOKS Art Mills, award winning author of The Empty Lot Next Door, is stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan and requesting print books for he and his fellow troop members. Art says that “most of our books are old and worn-out, indicating people read them and hand them to others. If I place books on a … Continue Reading

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Welcome Giveaway Hop Visitors! Name your favorite genre in a comment to this post through September 7 and be entered to win my last ARC of 33 year old Jamie Patterson’s memoir, Lost Edens. Read pre-pub reviews of Lost Edens on Amazon. Subscribe through FeedBurner for extra points.… Continue Reading

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Special thanks to my 100 charter subscribers! Although yours truly has been blogging since 2006, next month marks the first anniversary of this blog. Kicking off Blogoversary content right here on August 1 will be Simon & Schuster historical novelist Ron Hansen, whose book became the movie “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward … Continue Reading