tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32502271165981924772024-03-13T12:50:40.085-07:00Semi Short chicBooks, family, food, and smiles all from the perspective of a girl not to short, and not to tall.Semi Short Chichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10786616366299393167noreply@blogger.comBlogger560125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3250227116598192477.post-88617581394775559742020-06-01T09:11:00.002-07:002020-06-01T09:11:53.330-07:00Summer Reading Blitz Day 1!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">I’m a retired high school English teacher. A devourer of books growing up, my profession introduced me to writings and authors from times long past. Through my studies and teaching, I fell in love with the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Now, I hope to inspire young readers and those Young-at-Heart to read more through my Tales and Legends for Reluctant Readers set in these worlds—Ancient Egypt, Medieval Wales, and coming soon, a hair-raising adventure through ancient worlds in search of 5 rare Phoenix Feathers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">My husband and I love to travel. In 2008, we spent three weeks in Egypt traveling by local train from one end of the country to the other; in 2014, we spent three weeks in the UK driving over 1700 miles through England, Wales, and Scotland; and in 2016, we spent a week in Iceland. We’ve also traveled to Mexico, Jamaica, and Aruba. Our next big adventure will be to Greece and Italy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">When I’m not writing or traveling, our 4 grandkids keep us busy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">I love to spend time with my kids and grandkids. The 4 four grandkids enjoy hiking Donkey Mountain (at the end of our street), catching bugs, riding bikes, and just playing. I also love to read. Working in our yard is also something I enjoy although I don’t have a green thumb.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">2. What was the hardest part of writing your book, and how did you overcome it?</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">The ending of the story was the hardest in Guinevere: The Legend. I didn’t know what my characters were going to do, and I was afraid of what would happen. That sounds crazy, I know, but when I’m writing, it’s the character(s) and my creative brain in charge. It took me about six weeks before I finally just sat down and let them finish the story.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Our next big trip will be to Greece and Italy. I’m somewhat obsessed with the ancient world and can’t wait to see the ancient architecture in those countries. Greece: the Acropolis, the Parthenon, Olympia, and Mycenae to name a few. Italy: Pompeii and Herculaneum which were buried in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption, the Colosseum, and the Circus Maximus to name just a few.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Made our trek to Egypt a few years ago.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">My ideas for the basis of my stories come from literature of the ancient and medieval worlds. From there I determine what stories I could write set in those worlds that would appeal to young readers (and mature readers). Since I taught a lot of the literature from those time periods, I have a good idea of what will attract readers (ages 9-17) to my books and characters.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">5. Tell us a bit about a future project you are working. Do you have any little sneak peaks you can share?</span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Currently, I’m working hard on book 1 in my </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Feathers of the Phoenix</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> series. It’s called the Atlantean Horse. The series follows Rosa (from </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Sons of the Sphinx</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">) and maybe her cousin Jerome—still debating that one—as she/they search and track down the five feathers from the fabled Phoenix bird which Poseidon expelled from the island of Atlantis before he sank it. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Also on the back burner is book 2 in my </span><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Young Knights of the Round Table</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"> series. I’ve had numerous inquiries about it, but haven’t settled on a solid idea yet.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">Here’s the current opening for </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;">The Atlantean Horse:</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s late April here next to the foothills on the edge of the Denver suburbs, and yesterday’s storm dropped two feet of snow. Overnight it turned into a roaring blizzard plummeting temps below zero. The snow has moved on, but not the biting cold. The wind gusts not only create impassable drifts, it keeps the wind chill factor far below freezing. Even sheltered behind this window in my darkened living room I find myself rubbing my arms for warmth.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Outside, newly leafed trees fight against the ice coating their branches, a fight lost for some of them. The crackle of breaking limbs echoes through the glass. I shudder from sadness at the thought of the new life brought to an end so soon after emerging. But that’s Colorado for you. Here the weather changes from one day to the next, sometimes from one hour to the next.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">For the second day, schools are closed. My friends are inside playing video games or chatting online hoping that the afternoon will be calm enough for sledding and snowball fights. I’m usually one of those. Nothing like a wet spring snow and a roaring ride down the hill below my house. I might even talk my dad into sledding, if it’s not too dark once he and mom get home from work. I’m not a fan of the snowball fights—though my cousin Jerome, who lives across the street, is—after having my nose broken by an errant snowball. On these days, I can still feel the impact, the pain and the blood running down my face and throat. A warm liquid that is nothing like a cup of hot chocolate soothing as it goes down. This almost gags me even now.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Usually I welcome Mother Nature’s little tantrums, but not this late. The wet cold hangs in the air and in my body refusing to let go. And today, in particular, I long for the stifling heat and that burning orb of the desert on my skin. Heat so thick I can see it rising in twisting streams from the blistering sand. And the sun literally baking my body, my hair, my skin. Never thought I’d wish for that again.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">I don’t hear dead people anymore either. And that makes me sad. You heard right, sad. After all I went through with Tut and Hesena in ancient Egypt...1330 B.C. to be exact…I miss it. Well, let me rephrase that. I don’t miss the dead that talked—complained is more like it—before Tut came to me. I miss my Nana’s gift that let me help Tut find Hesena, his love, and helped him restore his family’s good name.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;">Those others, the ones who wanted a second chance at life, are gone now. I’ve even gotten through almost two years of school without the other kids wondering if I’m ever going to be sane. I’m sure they’re as relieved as me that those dead don’t interrupt my classes or my tests. A small part of me even misses the challenge of defeating General Horemheb, though not the almost dying part.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;">Every August my family would spend 10 days at a small resort in Gunnison, Colorado. My dad was a fisherman. He would fish everyday. My mom would bring her sewing machine, patterns, and cloth to sew our school clothes. My grandparents used to come also. My brother and sister and I would hang out with the kids of the owners. We climbed the same mountains year after year, walked for miles, built forts in the willows by the river, and many times took the raft across the river to explore.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.0000pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writing began with the third grade book her teacher assigned her to write and
she spent hours hidden behind her mother's couch writing pages and pages about
knights and castles. Now she writes about romance. Go figure.<br />
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When she's not mothering her 4 small children, writing or reading, she's
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series. The way to her heart is through homemade chocolate chip cookies and
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">Ideas come in everyday life. I'll have an idea pop
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use to play on his banjo or fiddle, or the smooth, family harmony in which I am
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Tackle the elements & evil of Ancient Egypt...<br />
A history-changing battle & Time Travel Thriller...<br />
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Fifteen-year-old Rosa doesn't see dead people...<br />
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2015 IAN Book of the Year Finalist YA<br />
2015 CAL Book Award Finalist YA Fiction<br />
2014 Literary Classics Seal of Approval<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of authors to try it. Write the stories you like to read. Entertain your
readers. Don't think you have to know how your story is going to end. Have you
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to write the story. And as a writing instructor told me, "When you are
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play in the sun and ocean. We read a lot, and I do some writing. We love to
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">E. C. Jackson began her writing career with the full-length play Pajama Party. For three and a half years she published the Confidence in Life newsletter for Alpha Production Ministries, in addition to writing tracts and devotionals. </span></div>
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deviated from that practice with the last book, The Certain Hope. My editor
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there a specific event or person who influenced you to become an author?</b> I
have always loved writing and used to write poems and short stories when I was
a child. But my serious writing didn’t start until the late 90s, after my
husband and I returned from a few years living in Italy. I didn’t have a job
and found myself bored one cold, wet December afternoon. I began writing out a
small scene I’d had in my head since watching a kid’s TV program in the 70s
(called Tarot, Ace of Wands), and that seemed to open floodgates I didn’t know
existed. It turned into my triple-trilogy fantasy series, Artesans of Albia,
and in case anyone’s interested, the actual scene became Taran’s first meeting
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you tell us anything about it</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">? I’m currently working on a prequel to my Artesans series that will
relate Sullyan’s early life and how she became the powerful Artesan she is. It
will be aimed at the YA market and is around halfway complete at this stage.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to be chocolate, I’m afraid. Milk, not dark (too bitter for me), and I really
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your characters, which ones would you choose? Why? What food would you serve?</b> Well,
it’s no secret that only one of my characters is based on a real person, and
that is King Elias Rovannon, who is based on UK actor Sean Bean’s portrayal of
the Bernard Cornwell soldier, Richard Sharpe. So I would love to have dinner
with Sean Bean, primarily to ask hm f he would do the voice of Elias in the
audiobook versions of my novels! I have no idea what kind of food Sean likes,
but I love Italian, so I’d most likely cook something pasta-based. I also do a
mean lime cheesecake for dessert! </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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your book and what was it?</b> I learned a huge amount from writing my
books as I started from the bottom with only my High School English education
to call on. I learned about POV (Point of View), how to structure a story, and
also about rejection once I started sending my first book out. But I also
learned how supportive and helpful people in the writing industry can be if
approached in the right way. I also learned things about myself – most
worryingly that I seem to have quite a dark side! One of the reviews of my
final trilogy, Master of Malice, says that I go places that George R R Martin
(Game of Thrones) didn’t dare go!</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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doing when you are not writing</b>? I’m a singer/songwriter as well as a
novelist and have written and recorded songs to accompany five of my fantasy
novels, so singing is a wonderful way to switch off. I’m a member of a Shanty
group, http://www.shantyhounds.co.uk/ and enjoy performing and raising money
for charity. I have two rescue dogs that I love walking, and I also grow a
large amount of cacti. My husband and I own a powerboat, a Nelson 38 called Sea
Hound, and we love taking off round the Solent for day trips or longer.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">I read and read and read, three books
a week for my crime review blog. I love old movies, too, when I'm not watching
Masterpiece Mystery. And playing outside with my two Aussie Doodle pups, Seamus
and Fiona, in nice weather is always fun. We live along a river in rural
northeastern NC and walks this time of year always end with two wet dogs!<br />
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a vintage partner's desk so I'm facing the back of my husband's monitor, and
our library space is at the end of our living room. I've learned to write with
the television on or his own computer noises, putting myself in the zone, using
the house noises are white noise. It works most of the time. The ringing of a
telephone I find jarring though, and if I'm in that zone, will ignore it.<br />
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3. Do you have any suggestions to help budding authors become better writers?
If so, what are they?</b> I have four main ones: 1. Read and read and read, in your
chosen genre and almost anything. You learn from reading what you like and good
literature as well as what doesn't work. Read classics to see why their stories
have endured even if the language use seems outdates. You are searching to
develop your own writer voice. 2. Also, a good usage book on your desk is key.
Many modern writers today use their computers for dictionary-thesaurus searches
but I prefer the break looking things up in a book gives me. It clears my head.
And a usage book that's well indexed is a great companion. Right now I'm
recommending Benjamin Dreyer's DREYER'S ENGLISH to everyone. It's compact and
filled with delightful footnotes, so it's a pleasure to read and to consult. 3.
Find a writing critique buddy or join a writing group. You can find one online
if you can't find anyone near you. It's helpful to have a good critique partner
who knows the bones of writing and can provide honest feedback. If you are
truly a beginner, take a course first to get the basics down. 4. Write. it
doesn't matter what, it doesn't matter how long. Write about waht you see out
the window. Write a character study you envision and may work into a future
story. Write a setting that pleases you, and use all your senses in its
description. Write when you can and don't dismiss even ten snatched minutes as
worthwhile. The idea of writing soon becomes ingrained and more natural. Don't
look at a large project at first; it's too daunting. Start small and work your
way up and you will use all of that early writing at some point. And don't
forget to always carry a small notebook around with you. It's useful for
jotting down ideas that hit you in the grocery story or when you're out
driving. If you hear a snatch of great conversation, write it down. Writers are
sponges; soak up what is realistic in order to create your own world.</span><span style="color: #500050; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">I write two mystery series, one set in Manhattan
and one in England, so setting is always a starting point for me. The place
where a murder is set becomes its own character and lends itself to where my
characters will go and what they do. Since I have recurring characters, why is
Nora or Trudy in this place? Then I go to the end and figure out who will be
murdered and why. I work my back from that point and fill in the characters,
subplots, motives. I do some research before I start out but only have a vague
idea of the 'muddled middle' when I do and do other research as it comes up.
The idea for the actual murder usually comes from some human emotion in
overdrive: jealousy, revenge, greed, even twisted love. I do keep a file with
interesting news articles or things torn from magazines to spur ideas. The best
ones come from reality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can become invested in or understand, even if they are far different from
themselves or their lives. Once they want to follow that character, that
journey becomes the bulk of the story, whether it's Trudy figuring out a
murderer or Nora wanting to prove what's being termed a suicide is actually a
murder someone's getting away with. I'm a firm believer in a sense of questions
answered at the end in terms of this story; that doesn't mean there won't be
hint of a story to come, but most readers want to feel a sense of justice
served, in a mystery particularly, and that the puzzle has been solved and the
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vacation? Or what do you like to do in the summer?</b> Every other year I visit the
UK to do setting research, so those are clearly my favorites. Sometimes my
husband accompanies me, and we will build in side trips to France or Belgium,
as we did one year. Last summer we spent a week in Cornwall and a week in
Cambridge for the next two Nora books. I was writing the new Trudy, Death at the
Dakota, at that time, but this is for the next two Nora Tierney's to follow. We
had a few days in London visiting friends but with a week in each place, were
able to really soak up the feel, meet locals, tour the area, and take lots of
photos. Each summer my own writing group meets for a week, too, so there is
that to look forward to. We usually travel to each other's homes as we are
spread out throughout the US, but this year is our fifteenth year working
together, so we are treating ourselves to meeting in Old City Quebec and will
have time to workshop manuscripts and visit the sites. I'm looking forward to
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Parents to four wonderful children, Jerry and Stephanie Jaeger enjoy working together as J.S. Jaeger to write uplifting, entertaining stories. </span><br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">What do you like to do
when you're not writing? In addition to our day jobs, Jerry trains for events
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you don't start, you won't finish. Your first draft will probably sound awful
and not even resemble what's in your head. That's perfectly normal. We call
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">IT’S THE YEAR 2828, and Domus is the last remaining country. Divided into twelve walled cities known as </span>genuses<span style="font-size: 14pt;">, Domus spans what’s known as the purist lands—lands unaffected by the genetic modifications that killed all other species of mammals. But outside the walls of each </span>genus<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> the Immundus threaten the welfare of those within. From a young age, all citizens of Domus are trained for combat against these intruders.</span></div>
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poems and journaling, until babies, building houses, and bookkeeping jobs
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schoolwork. For the last two years, I’ve been taking two online classes each
semester and I’m loving it. I also make time every evening to read. There’s a
saying that to be a better writer, you need to read a lot. I know that’s true
and I especially love it when one of my favorite authors comes out with a new
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while I envision the scene playing out in my mind, like a movie. I can see the
setting, while I write the description. I hear the characters’ dialog and feel
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in love. A good story includes good character development with believable
situations and genuine emotions. I don’t need an extreme heartache or
insurmountable obstacles to be miraculously overcome. I like a good story with
reasonable problems, quirky sidekicks, and confident characters. I especially
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from Japan, joined us. We spent one day in each ‘kingdom’ and after Tomoko
arrived, we returned to our favorite rides and shows with her. Our children
were old enough to ride on all the rides and young enough to still enjoy being
with their parents. Disneyworld’s ability to put people from all walks of life
on the same playing field, as it were, gave us the opportunity to mix with
numerous cultures and find commonality in Disney-fun. I still listen to the
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really am surprised by what I am inspired to write. It’s like I’m reading the
book for the first time, but it’s in my head.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about your day, write anecdotes about your experience at the store or on a
drive, share stories with your friends and family. If you like writing fiction,
practice making stuff up. And please, please, please, learn proper sentence
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<span lang="EN-US" style="background: transparent; color: #212121; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> The ideas I get are inspiration. I
feel that nothing is born simply of my genius. All of my experiences in life,
in work, in reading, in church, in relationships comes to play in the birth of
a new idea. When it comes to information such as historical facts, locations,
and modern views of different subjects, I really like Wikipedia. Google Maps
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great story. The stories I remember the most are the ones that make me mad,
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We live in a culture overwhelmed with disrespect, egos, entitlement, rudeness,
and offense — lives focused on self, rather than God or others. <br />
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Jesus entered our world and walked among us. He placed no importance on rank or
position. Jesus’ life reflected love because it reflected humility, and He
invites us to live and love like Him.<br />
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real-life people — our contemporaries and those on the pages of God’s word, who
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about 8 clients a week. That helps pay the bills, (yes, I have those, too)
giving me freedom to write. I have a few online game obsessions like Words with
Friends and Wonka’s World. Mostly they’re a great escape from life’s demands. I
also bake bread for my family from freshly milled grain, read, craft, travel a
little, and spend time with my grandchildren. It’s summertime, and I’m eager to
get in the pool. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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homework, and projects while tuning out many distractions around me. It became a coping and survival skill – one
carried throughout my life. Not always a positive thing, when sometimes I tune
out important stuff, too. So, there’s usually noise in the background when I
write, don’t ask me what songs they played on the radio. I won’t have a clue,
but I will have accomplished much in my writing world even in the midst of
television shows, others’ conversations, radio blaring and more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writers’ conferences. They are available throughout the year at different
locations. Many are very affordable. Soak up all you can from those who lead
these workshops. Make connections with other authors on many different mile
markers along their writing journeys. Many will become treasured friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from a well-published devotional writer during a one-on-one session at a
writers’ conference in 2016, led to the three devotional books which are
compiled here as the Coffee Cottage Collection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a first chapter critique group at the same conference this year, we were given
a resource list of great books to help us really learn how to “craft” our
books. I’ve completed one of them and started on a second. My work-in-progress
is a Christian Historical Fiction novel. A novel is definitely uncharted water
for me. Reading the books, I’m learning so much to make my story shine. Make
the investment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2004 I discovered essential oils and their properties and aromatic influences.
God gave me many fresh insights into different passages of Scripture where the
plants are mentioned. Almost from the beginning of my essential oil journey, He
laid the task of putting knowledge I gleaned into book form. Through prayer,
and over time, the devotional books look much different than I ever expected.
I’m thankful it all came together perfectly and in God’s perfect timing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by events in the life of my great grandmother, I stepped up to the challenge of
fictionalizing and writing her story as a novel. There is so much more I don’t
know about her than I do, but I believe the story will be used to bring beauty
from ashes almost 150 years later. Her noble cause: a voice for the unborn. I’m
praying a trip to her home in Germany will become reality this summer. I count
on even more insight, walking where she walked. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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facts and information. I remember the tediousness of card catalogs and
periodical indexes from school term paper days, and sing praises for the ease
and extent of research made possible by the internet today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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inviting us into their lives honestly and authentically. Their flaws and
troubles, their positive attributes, and their quirks are visible. The
characters also willing allow us to witness their changed lives often through
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and keep it interesting. We joined friends in Charleston, South Carolina a few
years ago. Our rented cottage on the beach offered perfect sunrises. Up early
and coffee in hand, I caught them from the third floor deck each morning. The
history and architecture of the city, the friendly people, wonderful cuisine, a
sunset sailing adventure, and seagrass baskets along with good company, made
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denim-covered diary. Besides hanging out at the library, she loved soaking up
the rays—while reading a book, of course. During her sophomore year of high
school, Wendy’s family moved to Carson City, Nevada, and she thought her life
had ended. The desert, sagebrush, and cowboys were a far cry from the ocean,
palm trees, and surfers of Florida. Fortunately, within six months, the family
relocated to Lake Tahoe, and her outlook improved dramatically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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followed by a year at the University of Nevada in Reno and two years at Brigham
Young University, where she worked as a reporter and copy editor for The Daily
Universe. A decision to take a short break from school turned into a
twelve-year college hiatus in Lake Tahoe. After a two-year stint in the civil
engineering program at California State University in Sacramento, Wendy
returned to Colorado and graduated from CU with a degree in English Writing. It
was a long, but valuable, educational journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Northern Nevada, close enough to Lake Tahoe to enjoy the beautiful scenery but
far enough away to escape the heavy winters. She lives with a wonderful
husband and a golden retriever who’s often mistaken for a sloth. Her
two brainy and creative sons make her want to be smarter. Wendy hopes someday
to journey to the stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">Logan, the eldest of the MacBride clan, is thrilled at his brother Clay's pending nuptials to Sandy. But when Sandy's sister RJ arrives at the family's ranch, Logan's world is turned upside down. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">However, the sisters' shared past has created scars and barriers against love testing Logan's ability to push aside his need and patience to win RJ's trust and ultimately her unwavering love.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He has lived and worked in Egypt, Alaska, Oregon and New York (the State, not the City). He has snorkeled in the Red Sea. Slept on the Nile River and under the Northern Lights (but not at the same time). Walked among grizzlies, ridden his bike under the midnight sun, climbed Mt St Helens, and even jumped out of a perfectly good airplane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Carson Nowak is a CIA contractor like none you’ve ever met before.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Shortly after George W Bush is elected president Carson is tasked with retrieving a trunk load of documents.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">The order comes not from the Agency or even the President; but a higher authority, his Nana.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">In addition to the documents the trunk contains a war relic that is tied to a mysterious death just before D-Day.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Tracing the provenance behind this relic triggers a chain of events that not only unlocks Carson’s family history but garners the interest of a South American hit squad. Carson must navigate the challenges of protecting his family, maintaining his business, ensuring the safety of a refugee developing a revolutionary weapons system, and deal with an infuriating curmudgeon.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">Along the way he falls in love.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;">To navigate these challenges he must enlist the help of a pencil-thin code breaker, a claustrophobic corpsman and a Haitian nurse.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ren Garcia is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author and Texas native who grew up in western Ohio. He has been writing since before he could write, often scribbling alien lingo on any available wall or floor with assorted crayons. He attended The Ohio State University and majored in English Literature. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ren has been an avid lover of anything surreal since childhood. He also has a passion for caving, urban </span>archeology<span style="font-size: 14pt;">, taking pictures of clouds, and architecture. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, and their four dogs.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">At the age of twelve, I traveled throughout Europe with my Grandmother and aunts, who filled my days with the shared reading of classics such as Jane Eyre and Sherlock Holmes, developing my love of literature early on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">I pursued my love of literature into college, earning a Bachelor's of English, a Master's of Education, and I am currently working to complete a Master's in English. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">My first novel, All the Wrong Places, started as a short story for a creative writing course and chronicles many of my experiences living in a mortuary, raising my daughter on my own and discovering my Christian faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;">My years in college writing programs have left me with a varied collection of short stories, plays and poetry covering many personal experiences from teenage rebellion to single-motherhood and spiritual awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />I love to read, quilt, work with digital images on my photo editing program, and work on my own family history. <br />
<br />I am a blogger. In addition to my own blog, I blog for several group blogs including the Sweet Americana Sweethearts blog, which I started and administer.</span></div>
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American father who owns a trading post in Bonner Springs near the junction of
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harsh experience he is not always accepted, including by the father of the
pretty redhead who has caught his eye. The arrival of thousands of white
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warrior’s name. Once he knows both worlds, he will decide which will best serve
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Meadowlark’s traditional father wishes her to marry Broken Wing, a
highly-respected full-blood Kansa warrior close to his own age. Meadowlark
rejects being the junior wife under a dying oldest wife and a wolverine of a
second wife. Once she learns her childhood friend who left the tribe years
earlier has returned to the Kansa, she seeks him out. Even if he does consider
her for a wife, can she persuade her father to allow him enough time to prove
himself as a warrior? Will her father accept him for her husband in spite of
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Will Charlie decide on a future with the white Americans, or will he fight the
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