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Kitty Typos and More from Guest Author Dusty Rainbolt

I'm tickled to welcome cat writer and novelist Dusty Rainbolt today. You MUST click on the links to the historical finds she mentions! We couldn't lift the pictures (we both support copyright!) but, really, you have to see the pictures. >^..^^..^< to watch

Writers and Cats

June is Adopt-a-Cat Month, and Caribbean-American Heritage Month, so many Write Here, Write Now blog entries this month will be focused on one or the other - or both! I'm kicking things off with today's piece about some of the mewses in my own life. Leave a comment and you may win a copy of my book The Multiple Cat Family,  winner of the MUSE Award for
Best Care & Health Book and an Award of

How to Get Early Reviews with Guest Author Edith Maxwell

Authors and readers both know that book reviews are an important part of the world of books. Today my guest is Edith Maxwell, who tell us some of the things she has done to get early reviews of her books. Comments are, as always, very welcome. Readers - what do you review, and how do reviews affect your book choices? Authors - more ideas? ~ Sheila

 

 

Thanks so much, Sheila, for having me

Eine Kleine Murder with Guest Author Kaye George

Welcome back to Kaye George, author of several murder mystery series. Kaye is here to share the prologue to her new book, Eine Kleine Murder, and to tell us how she wrote the book and found a title. Kaye has generously offered to give away a paperback copy of the book, so leave a comment to be entered in the drawing.  ~ Sheila

 

Prologue


Stinguendo: Dying away. (Ital.)


What was that sound?

In Memory of Our Companions in War

To commemorate Memorial Day, I am rerunning my post from last year. Here are some thoughts about the animals who do not make wars but live, and die, in them just the same. - Sheila



In Memorium: Our Companions in War

My grandmother was a poet. Squarely in the sentimental Victorian tradition, her poems were published in Scottish and Canadian newspapers and small-press collections in the late

Organize Your Memoir/Life Story - or Other Writing!

I've been teaching a six-week "Write Your Memoir" class through the Cameron Art Museum here in Wilmington, NC. I love teaching through the Museum School - we get terrific students. (I'll be teaching "Nature Writing" in the fall - details to follow!)

One of the challenges that memoirists face is organization, particularly those who are writing "legacy memoirs" meant primarily for their family and

Life, Writing

Spring 2013 has been a tough one. Between catastrophic human-made and natural events and the venom so many people seem determined to spew at their fellow human beings, it makes me sometimes want to turn it all off, unplug, and wrap myself in earth, sky, sea, and the company of animals. And, of course, the good people who really are out there.

For today, though, I'm making this brief. I'm going

A Picture May Prompt a Thousand Words

We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's another angle on that old saw: a photo (or other visual image) may also help inspire and expand ideas. I'm teaching a memoir-writing class right now, and each week I have offered my students some new tools to help them access memories and to enter deeper into the events they want (or need) to write about. Last week, I had everyone

When Fiction Turns Real (Mostly) - Guest Author Richard Brawer on Trouble in the Far East

Welcome back to author Richard Brawer, who wrote last October about the Inspiration for his novel Keiretsu. Today Richard tells us more about the history behind his book, and shows how once in a while reality follows fiction.  ~ Sheila



When my latest novel, Keiretsu, was released in December 2012 I promoted it as chilling fiction that may eventually become reality.  Never did I think that

Death and Transfiguration by Gerald Elias (Excerpt)

On Monday, author Gerald Elias confessed. He is, indeed, a mystery writer. Today, he generously shares the opening chapter of his latest book. Enjoy! ~ Sheila





Death and Transfiguration


 


Chapter 1


It had even felt like a
Thursday.  Days of the week, mused
Jacobus, are like keys in music, each possessing its own personality.   Thursday. 
Thursday, he considered, that would be B-flat