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Author Archives: Val
Book Review: The Great Typo Hunt by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Henson
In my kids’ mystery series, the protagonist’s mother is crazy about correcting grammar—to the extent that she gets distracted and lost, runs late, or loses track of all else in her life. The character, Mrs. Hollinger, is based loosely on … Continue reading
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Pennwriters Conference: May 16-18
I’m pleased to announce the 2014 Pennwriters Conference at the Eden Resort in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I’ll be presenting a class on characterization on Friday, May 16 and look forward to attending many of the other classes and presentations, networking with … Continue reading
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Book Review: Legendarium by Kevin G. Summers and Michael Bunker
Legendarium takes place in an imaginary place “between world,” a place where all the stories ever created intersect. If anything happens to the stores as-written, there are dire consequences to the world as we know it. The two main characters … Continue reading
Book Review: Blood on the Moon by Cassiel Knight
I’m reviewing this book as part of a blog tour run by Juniper Grove Book Solutions, receiving a copy of the novel in exchange for my honest review. What follows is an excerpt and synopsis provided by the blog tour, … Continue reading
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Spot Writers: The Ring
Welcome to the Spot Writers. This week the prompt is to use five of the following words in the story: shadow, mountain, shell, sunlight, hammock, bottle, chain, wheel Today’s contribution comes from RC Bonitz, author of A LITTLE BIT OF … Continue reading
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Book Review: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
We is a Russian novel first published in the 1920s in New York (Banned in its home country, it wasn’t published in Russia until 1988!). I wanted to read this book because it’s the prototype around which 1984 (admittedly) and … Continue reading
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Spot Writers: Frozen in Time
The theme of this week (“I’m so cold my bones have frozen”) is appropriate, as winter temperatures seem to be here forever, at least for author Cathy MacKenzie. Her most recent publication, BETWEEN THESE PAGES, is a compilation of 18 short … Continue reading
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Writer Wednesdays: Guest Author Renée Swann
Today, I’m happy to feature guest author Renee Swann on my blog. After checking out her post, be sure to stop by her website to say hi: My family says I’ve always had a way with words. And I … Continue reading
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On Writing: a Novel in a Week?
A couple of weeks ago, we had a late-winter snow storm that cancelled work and school for two days—a Monday and Tuesday—giving me a four-day weekend. I had written 10,000 words the previous week in my work-in-progress (Corgi Capers: Curtain … Continue reading
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