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Leigh Verrill-Rhys

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/LVR9

born

Paris Hill, Maine, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.everwriting.wordpress.com

genre

Nonfiction, Romance, Historical Fiction

influences

Flannery O'Connor, Anne Tyler, Isabel Allende, George Eliot

member since

May 2011

About this author

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A native of Paris Hill, Maine, Leigh spent most of her childhood and early adult years in San Francisco before emigrating to Wales to marry and raise three sons. She has been a writer, editor and lecturer for most of her life, intermingled with career portfolios in marketing, finance and community arts projects.

An award-winning editor, she has published three volumes of women’s autobiographical writing about their lives in Wales and during World War II. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, the Welsh Academy and several RWA chapters. Wait a Lonely Lifetime is her first published novel.

Leigh admits to running with scissors and leaping before she looks.

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Leigh Verrill-Rhys's Blog

A Long Time Coming

In honor and memory of all those who have given their lives in the cause of freedom, I wanted to say ‘Thank you’. My generation, and those generations before mine and too many of those now and in the future, have and will live through decades of war. Some of those wars were justified but I believe all wars can be prevented and lives can be spared.

The war of my youth was Vietnam. Weeks before Ly...

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	Wait a Lonely Lifetime 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	On My Life: Women's Writing from Wales 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	Parachutes and Petticoats by Leigh Verrill-Rhys (Goodreads Author), Deirdre Beddoe (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Iancs, Conshis a Spam 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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Mountaineering Essays

by John Muir

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May 20, 2012 02:48pm

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The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

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Little Dorrit, Volume II (Dodo Press)

by Charles Dickens

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Leigh Verrill-Rhys is now friends with Mary
May 31, 2012 09:57pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys gave to: Have I Got Views For You by Boris Johnson read in May, 2012	My rating:
May 22, 2012 08:28pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys gave to: Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard read in April, 2011	My rating:
I read this at the Library in Ireland. Just included it in my latest blog: "Dumbest Things I've Done as a Writer". I enjoyed it, can't fault the logic at all. Good, sound advice.
May 22, 2012 08:23pm · see review
Leigh Verrill-Rhys is currently reading: Mountaineering Essays by John Muir	My rating:
May 20, 2012 02:48pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys is on page 372 of Have I Got Views For You: Still charmed by this cantankerous fellow. Ditto to: "Why can't all politicians be this charming and human?" If Boris could run for President... oh sorry, what is the point? They all succumb to the seductive corruption of power and money. Have I Got Views For You by Boris Johnson	My rating:
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Leigh Verrill-Rhys is currently reading: The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara	My rating:
Apr 28, 2012 08:35pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys gave to: Amos Barton by George Eliot	My rating:
Apr 28, 2012 06:49pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys gave to: The Lifted Veil by George Eliot	My rating:
Apr 28, 2012 06:48pm
Leigh Verrill-Rhys gave to: Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot	My rating:
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