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Every solution to every problem is simple. It’s the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” ― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant Are you ready for a new giveaway? A new book meant a newsletter giveaway but also a giveaway here on One Writers Journal. The odds of winning are much better here on my online journal than in my …
This wonderful book is about an Appalachian community in the mountains that experienced the blessing of learning when the Moonlight School came to them. The author did a wonderful job capturing the heart of the mountain people, and the desire of many of them to learn to read and write. (Connie R) I got my edited work in progress …
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. ~Yehuda Berg How many of you, as children, learned the …
One of the fun things about researching my Appalachian books is reading about the mountaineer’s sense of humor. Since I’m working hard on edits on my work in progress that has a Monday deadline, I decided to share some of the jokes I’ve come across in reading Appalachian books. These are from a book my mother bought years ago — …
Happy week after Mother’s Day. Sorry that I’m a day late with this post. I was celebrating with my kids this weekend and just let the computer rest for a couple of days. And now I need to get to work on editing my next year’s book. (This year’s book is releasing next week. Yay! Hoping readers will like …
A box of books landed on my deck last week. My story, A Chance for Kallie Mae, arrived all dressed up in a beautiful book cover with all my words printed inside. So many words. But it’s my hope that they are the right words that will pull readers into the story and make them cheer on Kallie Mae as …
Not long ago, I did a talk at the LaRue County Public Library. I’d never been there before, but a friend, actually a cousin a few times removed as people say, lives there and got the library events person to invite me. I was pleased that some people were there to hear me talk about books. Then I was excited …
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane Once more I am searching for the end of a story. Once more it seems to be hiding from me behind a crazy mixture of words that don’t seem to be paving the …
“Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.” (From The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon In a few weeks, well, if you want to be exact twenty-three days from right now, my new book, A Chance for Kallie …
Today as I was searching for an old file on my computer, by chance I stopped and looked at a different old file. You know it’s like when you are cleaning out drawers or closets and you keep coming across things that grab your attention. Before you know it you have spent most of your time looking at this or …