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The Calm Before The Storm – or – 10 Lame Excuses For An Author

I wasn’t sure what to call this post. Part of me finds it easy to justify my complete lack of attention to my blog. Another part of me insists that I shouldn’t let the other part of me which likes … Continue reading

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Am I Not A Man? The Dred Scott Story – by Mark Shurtleff

I begin this post with tears in my eyes–tears which have welled up as my heart has been taken on a journey of both pain and hope in the reading of this magnificent book. Let me say a few words … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck’s Common Sense – YOU NEED TO READ THIS

Glenn Beck’s Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine by Glenn Beck My rating: 5 of 5 starsThis book GREATLY impressed me. And it made me very, very angry about the corruption in our government. … Continue reading

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Agent in Old Lace by Tristi Pinkston

Agent in Old Lace by Tristi Pinkston My review rating: 3 of 5 starsThis book was a good, fast read. The only thing I didn’t connect with in this book was the kidnapping at the beginning. Perhaps it happened so … Continue reading

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Head Hoppin’ Headaches

I believe I have proven to myself that there are no rules in publishing. Books are published in any ol’ fashion the publisher’s editor wishes to publish it. The publisher can allow the author to reuse words over and over … Continue reading

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Review of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Here is the review I did on Goodreads: Because of a great plot idea, interesting characters, and a well written story, I blew through the book in 2 days. Compared to third-person past-tense stories, there are fewer first-person present-tense stories … Continue reading

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When Hearts Conjoin

While at the LDS Storymakers Conference, I was talking to Tristi Pinkston, and right next to her was sitting the famous Lu Ann Staheli. I say famous because it seems as though I have seen her name in many, many … Continue reading

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I must be starting to LOOK like an author

Ok. Now I am weirded out. I am at the 7th Annual Young Writers Conference by the Nebo Reading Council with my youngest daughter. She had to twist my arm really, really hard to go. OK, that isn’t true. I … Continue reading

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Book Review: “The Forgotten Warrrior”

“The Forgotten Warrior” by Kathi Oram Peterson Forgiveness has never been an attribute of sixteen-year-old Sydney Morgan’s. Loyal and loving to her mother and sister, a crisis forces her to find her absent father, which in turn begins a chain … Continue reading

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Letter L

House of Secrets: A Shandra Covington Mystery by Jeffrey S. Savage My review rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a very fun read. The topsy-turvy plot and surprises were both interesting and “catchy”. Catchy works for music, right? Why … Continue reading

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