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My great grand parents. Once in a while I think about the...

My great grand parents. Once in a while I think about them and realize that if either of them had not survived the Civil War....I would never have been born. 

My great grandmother was Cherokee/African. My grandfather fell in love with her. So he fought for the North, lived two years in a  starvation prison in the south....then came home stick-skinny and sad ..... and found her waiting. 






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OK it's fake. But it should't be!!!!!www.kathleenduey.com

OK it's fake. But it should't be!!!!!







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Revision: the painful art of starting over.....

Join me in the scary place writers call  revision.........something I will be teaching writers in a few months. 

Revision is like walking through cactus.... in the dark...barefoot and trying to read a map that you no longer trust.......



Or like trying to capture the moon on a windy night with a shaky camera.....knowing that it will never work.NEVER EVER....



Or like deciding to lean out a window and  take a picture of a beautiful old building even though you know it will never...

WIND IN THE TREES : A progress report.

Wind in the trees: My perfect writing weather.....

I am close to sending my agent the first 80 or so pages of The Maker's Cage. I think it is one of the best things I have ever written. It's one of the oddest....

Then I will be back in Limori almost full-time.  And by "almost" I mean I will continue what I am doing now. ..I will only be leaving Limori  when I can't see or hear any of the Limori characters that day..... 


Wind in the trees ::  I can always see their faces.
...bu...

missing the target, a writer's best friend

I will go to work in a few minutes...this whole post is a warm-up.

I love bad pictures (like all of these)  because I can't always remember where I took them or why or even  what the image IS.

This one might have been a back-bend sky shot taken somewhere at a writer's conference EARLY in the morning when I was running to get to the room before the attendees started to arrive because....I just like to have a little time to try to convince myself that I am qualified to teach writing.










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The Unicorn's Secret and me.

I wrote these books years ago because I wanted to share the amazing dreams I had in 3rd and 4th grade. For almost two years I would get into bed each night, close my eyes and become the girl named Heart. Her adventures, her long journey home, was my journey, too. Every night I was Heart. Every morning I went to sleep in the dream, then immediately woke up in my own bed, with my mother telling me it was time to get ready for school

...I talked about the books on FB the other day and was amazed...

About 30 more pages into the book: The Makers CageI sudde...

About 30 more pages into the book: The Makers Cage




I suddenly stopped whispering. 
.....not because I wanted to, but because my lips had closed. 
I tried to open them  and I couldn't. 
But I could hear my father walking away.


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THE MAKER'S CAGE

This is the first page of the small project:  The BIG project is making good progress now, too.


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 I miss my brother.
Levin taught me to read. He taught me everything our father didn’t want us to learn: How to climb the chimney shafts, how to use numbers, how to  and write and where to hide the books. We made a narrow side-shaft that led from Levin’s room up into the library ceiling so...

HUGE THANKS to everyone asking about the third book of th...

HUGE THANKS to everyone asking about the third book of the trilogy. I am working on it and two other things (when the big book stalls).  I am sorry for the wait and can't tell you what all the support and kind comments mean to me.

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Working!!!

I realized today that it had been FAR too long between updates here. I apologize. I am still working on three things at once!  


Most of that time goes to the BIG book.....((Book 3 of A Resurrection of Magic))  which is actually shrinking at this point. The third book of the trilogy will end up to be about half what the initial draft was and I will end up knowing a hundred gazillion things about the characters and their lives and the city of Limori and its history that you...