Originally posted on Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author:
Welcome to the “HALLOWEEN FUN – GET YOUR SPOOK ON” Weekend Blog Tour! 13 Spooky Writing Prompts to ignite your imagination. Bats and cats, owls and howls, trick-or-treat, hosts and ghosts. Kids, have fun…
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THE END AND THE BEGINNING – Marilyn Armstrong
According to Google, both the 70th and hundredth anniversaries are honored with platinum gifts. Since Earth Abides is just a year short of its 70th anniversary, George R. Stewart’s epic work is approaching platinum. One year to go. In the meantime, I finally got… Read More ›
GOOD AND EVIL – Marilyn Armstrong
I can’t read “Lord of the Rings” these days without thinking about Stephen Colbert and his obsessive passion for these books. They are great books and eventually became rather amazing movies, but still and all … he knows things about… Read More ›
SO MARTHA ASKED, “CAN YOU ENFORCE IT?” – Marilyn Armstrong
Wednesday RDP – COPYRIGHT Martha wrote a little piece this morning titled “Can You Enforce it? (and Rambling Nonsense) by Martha Ann Kennedy. It’s good reading. Pretty much everything Martha writes is good reading, even when I don’t agree but especially… Read More ›
2019: EARTH ABIDES ACHIEVES PLATINUM – REBLOG PLUS MY REVIEW
I don’t know how many copies I have owned of this book. Or how many times I’ve read it. I know it has been often. I first read it when I was a teenager and I’ve been rereading it regularly… Read More ›
HIDING BEHIND MYSELF – Marilyn Armstrong
#FOWC — Hidden Identity When I first started blogging on WordPress more than six years ago, I was still very into the book I wrote, so I took as my online address part of the name of my book and… Read More ›
“A gift of laughter…” SUE VINCENT
Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
As I’m on a research mission this weekend, and having spent much of the week in hospital waiting rooms, I have dredged up a couple of old ones to share.This one was…
ARE YOU WATCHING FOR YOUR SHIP? – Marilyn Armstrong
I was out in Arizona talking to a Blue Corn Navajo lady who made jewelry. She had carefully given me her tribal affiliations and all I had to say was “Eastern European Jewish,” which lacked panache. I don’t seem to… Read More ›
BESTOWING THE GIFT OF WORDS – Marilyn Armstrong
And thus shall I bestow upon you the gift of gab, the talent of words, the ability to write with clarity and precision. Congratulations. You are a writer. But — how do you know? Because you write. Could you be… Read More ›
TODAY IS TOLKIEN READING DAY – MARCH 25th
March 25, 2018 – TOLKIEN READING DAY Celebrated around the world on March 25, Tolkien Reading Day is a favorite among fans of the renowned author. When we were younger and drank more, it was also Fall of Sauron Day…. Read More ›
RELEASED TODAY! DOUBLE DOG DARE – GRETCHEN ARCHER
DOUBLE DOG DARE – Gretchen Archer Print Length: 215 pages Publisher: Henery Press Publication Date: March 20, 2018 Davis Way Cole has gotten stuck. Not permanently stuck, mind you, but stuck in the house, stuck with the kids, stuck in that… Read More ›
THE FABRIC OF GOOD AND EVIL – ARAGORN TO EOMER
I’m rereading for the umpteenth time, “The Lord of the Rings.” Essentially, the book is entirely about good and evil. The great evil that is Sauron, the lesser evil of his cohorts, the striving evil of Saruman … and the… Read More ›
DIM PROSPECTS
GETTING VERY, VERY SLOWLY RICH … ? We watched a TV show last night. Australian, I think, but they never actually say where it is. I just thought I saw a distant shot of Ayers rock in the background …… Read More ›
PAPERBACK RELEASED! DOUBLE DOG DARE – GRETCHEN ARCHER
DOUBLE DOG DARE – Gretchen Archer Print Length: 215 pages Publisher: Henery Press Publication Date: March 20, 2018 Davis Way Cole has gotten stuck. Not permanently stuck, mind you, but stuck in the house, stuck with the kids, stuck in that… Read More ›
SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING WONDERFUL AND THE WORLD GETS BETTER
FROM GRETCHEN ARCHER TO ME ON FACEBOOK We all complain about Facebook, don’t we? And then, one day, someone says something so incredibly wonderful I feel like hugging it (hard to hug social media, but I can try) and definitely… Read More ›
DOUBLE DOG DARE – DAVIS WAY MYSTERY #7 – BY GRETCHEN ARCHER
DOUBLE DOG DARE – Gretchen Archer Print Length: 215 pages Publisher: Henery Press Publication Date: March 20, 2018 Davis Way Cole has gotten stuck. Not permanently stuck, mind you, but stuck in the house, stuck with the kids, stuck in that… Read More ›