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25 Years in the Rearview Mirror: 52 Authors Look Back
by
Stacy Juba (Goodreads Author),
Elaine Raco Chase (Goodreads Author), Maria Savva (Goodreads Author), Susan Helene Gottfried (Goodreads Author), Matthew Dicks (Goodreads Author), A.W. Hartoin (Goodreads Author), Alina Adams, C.J. Lyons (Goodreads Author)
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This collection of poignant and uplifting essays is the perfect book to enjoy over your morning coffee. The stories will warm your heart, raise your spirits and compel you to examine your own life. As a tie-in to her mystery book Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, novelist and award-winning journalist Stacy Juba invited her author colleagues to answer the question "What were you...more
ebook, 108 pages
Published
August 4th 2012
by Thunder Horse Press
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While I read and enjoy fiction, both as entertainment and sometimes for what it can teach about real life, and non-fiction, for learning, the memoir, which I also enjoy, is somewhere in the middle. It’s true, or at least some person’s view of the truth, but done well it can still entertain, just like a fictional story. We all have stories that, given the prerequisite writing chops, could be entertaining. Which leads me to a few observations about books like this (and others like it), as well as...more
“There is a part of us that pushes us into the danger zones, that urges us to play catch with the explosive and to date the irrational. That skirting with danger can lead to growth and disaster. It can certainly make for good writing.” Ken Weene
This book is filled with essays that take us from grade school to first loves and first jobs to the writing process itself and everywhere in between. Stacy Juba even gives us a couple writing exercises in “Unit-Lessons in Composition.” This was a fun read...more
This book is filled with essays that take us from grade school to first loves and first jobs to the writing process itself and everywhere in between. Stacy Juba even gives us a couple writing exercises in “Unit-Lessons in Composition.” This was a fun read...more
Sep 03, 2012
Monica Brinkman
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You will laugh, cry, wonder but anyone who reads this collection of memories from 52 renowned authors as they take a walk down memory lane, will find it truly entertaining.
Stacy Juba got it right when she came up with the idea to ask a few authors to write about what they were doing exactly 25 years ago today. You will be surprised in the variety of tales and will certainly reflect on your own memory of long ago.
If you like 'Chicken Soup for the Soul', then this book is for you. It warms the hea...more
Stacy Juba got it right when she came up with the idea to ask a few authors to write about what they were doing exactly 25 years ago today. You will be surprised in the variety of tales and will certainly reflect on your own memory of long ago.
If you like 'Chicken Soup for the Soul', then this book is for you. It warms the hea...more
I'm also someone who's featured in this book--thank you Stacy--and am proud to be part of such an imaginative, humorous and courageous bunch. The variety of experience and outlook make the book lively, quirky and fresh. Readers will take strength in learning how others coped with difficult situations. The stories are incredible--and best of all, they're true!
Sharon Love Cook, contributor and author of A Nose for Hanky Panky and The Legend of Judgment Rock and other Mystery Stories.
Sharon Love Cook, contributor and author of A Nose for Hanky Panky and The Legend of Judgment Rock and other Mystery Stories.
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wow! This was such a hoot to read after we all contributed. The results are short essays by successful, working published authors of today. It's smart, funny, sad, poignant... but always interesting. What were these authors doing 25 years ago? Some were writing, some just beginning, and some were on a totally different path.
Have YOU ever thought of writing a book, but didn't know if you could, or should? Read these charming entries, and you may find yourself inspired.
Have YOU ever thought of writing a book, but didn't know if you could, or should? Read these charming entries, and you may find yourself inspired.
Aug 08, 2012
Norma Huss
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With 52 authors (one of them me) you know there is something here for all readers. As I read other authors' contributions, I find funny moments, brief stories of hardships overcome, and poignant insights into the human experience. Of course, since most of us write fiction as well, there are even events from our characters' pasts.
I could ask, what were you doing 25 years ago?
I could ask, what were you doing 25 years ago?
Great collection of essays. Fun, quick to read, great variety. I'm delighted to be one of the authors included.
Enjoying all the stories. What a wide selection of topics and writing styles. A real potpourri of essays.
An interesting little book of essays allowing the writers to look back to 25 years ago.
Wonderful collection of short essays about personal moments in the contributors' respective pasts. Honored to be included.
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Award-winning writer Stacy Juba is the author of books for all ages. All titles are available in e-book and audiobook formats, and some are in print also. Her adult mystery titles with a touch of romance are TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY AND SINK OR SWIM.
She is also the author of the young adult paranormal thriller DARK BEFORE DAWN, the young adult family hockey novel FACE-OFF, the patriotic childr...more
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She is also the author of the young adult paranormal thriller DARK BEFORE DAWN, the young adult family hockey novel FACE-OFF, the patriotic childr...more
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