BOOK REVIEW – Now I Lay Me Down to Fight; a Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson (Author), Jodi Hays (Illustrator), Tish Harrison Warren (Foreword) A friend gave me this book after learning I too was facing breast cancer. It is a wonderful, visceral, raw, and very helpful book. Katy Bowser Hutson is a writer and poet. She begins the book with “The Week Before Cancer” when she was enjoying attending a writers’ conference. And…
#BLOGANUARY – What are a few of your favorite family traditions? Day 26
Day 26 – A few fave family traditions? —– Holiday meals like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and sometimes New Year’s together. —– Attending Sunday School and Church every week (and loving it). —– Treasure hunts for the little kids at Christmas. Now that the kids, grandkids with some great grandkids live far and wide around the…
BOOK REVIEW – Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates, Book 1)
By Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin What a great start to a fun and very unusual series. I loved the young boarding schoolboy Christopher (16) and his wonderful grandfather, Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall, set in Surrey, England. In this book, we meet them and learn of how their partnership into…
#BLOGANUARY – Do you spend more time thinking about the past or the future? day 5
By Jackie Houchin #Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 5. Do you spend more time thinking about the past or about the future? Past or future? Hahahahahaha! At age 78 the “past” is beginning to fade a…
How Do You Name Your Characters?
Saying Goodbye is Hard To Do.
Originally posted on The Writers in Residence:
By Marilyn Meredith, guest blogger In this case, it’s saying goodbye to two whole sets of characters who’ve been living in my head for many years. First it was the all the police officers and their families who live in the beach town of Rocky Bluff, as well…
Why I Read Short and Long
Originally posted on The Writers in Residence:
by Jackie Houchin I read a lot of print books and listen to a great many audiobooks each year. I do not read anthologies or collections of short stories unless they contain several stories by authors that have a track record I enjoy. Recently, I have been “reading”…
Short Stories: The Reader
Originally posted on The Writers in Residence:
by Maggie King A while back, I had a conversation with a well-read young couple. Like me, they enjoyed mysteries, the classics, and literary fiction. When they asked what I was working on, I said I was finishing my third novel and planned to focus on short stories…
How I Set A Mystery In The Galapagos
Originally posted on The Writers in Residence:
By Guest Blogger, Sharon Marchisello For as long as I can remember, I had three goals in life: become a bestselling author, meet and marry the love of my life, and travel the world together. And I always figured I’d do them in that order. Although I achieved…
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