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Book Review: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
Love the gold shimmers on the dust! First, I have to say how beautiful the cover of this book is. A spattering of wheat blows across the front. Gold metallic spots within the wheat and the dust sparkle in the sun. It's elegant. Now, on to the story. I have always been...
A Revision Checklist for Writers
Photo by Ketut Subiyanto on Pexels.com I recently attended a lecture on revisions given by New York Times bestselling author Emily Colin, hosted by Authors Publish. During the lecture, she talked about revisions falling into two categories, which she called macro and...
Movie Review: The Wonder (2022)
This story is based on a 2016 novel by Emma Donoghue. I have not read the book. However, I enjoy historical fiction movies as well as reading historical fiction novels. So, I decided to take a look. This story has an odd framing to it. It starts and ends on a movie...
Book Review: Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown
Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown I saw Wingwalkers on the table at Barnes and Noble and it piqued my curiosity. I'm writing a novel which takes place in the 1920s, so of course, I had to have it. This is the first novel I've read by Taylor Brown, even though this is his...
Book Review: Orphan Train, a novel
love the 'hinges' on the book cover! Orphan Train caught my eye because I have a character in one of my stories who rides the Orphan Train at an early age. So of course, I needed to read this book (research, right? Not an impulse buy). Christina Baker Kline's story...
Groundhog Day
The Day, The Movie, The Stories Photo by Aaron J Hill on Pexels.com I usually hate to watch a movie more than once, but I make an exception for Groundhog Day. Which is odd, because why would anyone want to re-watch a move about a day that replays over and over?...