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Interview with Judy Christie: ‘Slow down and do something fun on Mother’s Day’

Author Judy Christie loves to help busy people slow down and enjoy each day more – in her series of novels about Green, Louisiana, and her Hurry Less Worry Less nonfiction books. Judy started her writing career as the editor of The Barret Banner in elementary school and has kept a journal since she was nine (and still has all of them). She likes wandering around flea markets, walking in the park near her North Louisiana home and visiting friends and family on her vintage green Kitchen Cou...

The Story Behind Plant Teacher by Caroline Alethia

The Story Behind the Book is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we find out either the inspiration behind authors’ books or how they got published. Today’s guest is Caroline Alethia, author of of Plant Teacher.

2007 to 2008 were “interesting times” in the South American country of Bolivia. Democratically elected President Evo Morales decided he wanted a firmer grasp on power. In an armed encampment, surrounded by protestors, he illegally amended the national Constitution to extend...

Guest Blogger: 15 Ways to Stop Stressing and Start Living by Jill Muehrcke

Juliana (Jill) Muehrcke is the award-winning author of many books and articles. Founder and editor of the international magazine Nonprofit World (snpo.org), she has studied at the University of Colorado and the University of Michigan and has a BA degree, specializing in English and psychology, from the University of Washington. Jill is listed in Who’s Who (MarquisWhoswho.com). In her spare time, she enjoys teaching yoga and eating ethnic food. For many years, in several cities, including...

Interview with Donna Fletcher Crow, author of ‘A Darkly Hidden Truth’

Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 38 books, mostly novels dealing with British history. The award-winning Glastonbury, an Arthurian grail search epic covering 15 centuries of English history, is her best-known work. Donna and her husband live in Boise, Idaho. They have 4 adult children and 11 grandchildren. She is an enthusiastic gardener.

Her newest release is A Darkly Hidden Truth, book 2 in her clerical mystery series The Monastery Murders. She also writes the Lord Danvers series of...

10 Things You Might Not Know About A Story of the West

Susan Spence, author of A Story of the West, is my guest today!

10 Things You Might Not Know About A Story of the West

The models on the cover of A Story of the West are my husband and Hooper, a horse we raised.
The name Lavold was borrowed from a man who used to own the ranch where we now live. When this area was first surveyed, this section was given to the railroad. Theodore Lavold bought it from the railroad in 1895 and set up a sheep shearing station.
My idea for a novel came from the pi...

Literarily Speaking Presents This is Your Life with Kim Antieau

This is Your Life! is Literarily Speaking’s newest feature. Here we spotlight different authors to find out who they really are. Where were they born? What’s their family life like? What did they play with as a child? All these things mold them into the talented authors they are today. Today’s guest is Kim Antieau, author of the mainstream action adventure novel, Her Frozen Wild . Enjoy!

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Thank you so much for this interview, Kim. Can we begin by telling us a little bit about where y...

Interview with Susan Spence, author of ‘A Story of the West’

Susan Spence has always been intrigued with life in the west in the 1880s. She researched historical accounts and first-person narratives as she prepared to write A Story of the West. A lifelong resident of the west, she currently lives in Montana on an old sheep shearing station with lots of furry critters and one partially furry critter. This is her first novel, and she is busily working on a sequel due out in late spring.

You can visit her website at www.writing-ranching.com.

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Literarily Speaking’s Self-Publishing Report: Interview with Valerie Stocking

Valerie Stocking was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and wrote her first short story when she was five. When she was eight, she won a short story contest in Jack and Jill Magazine. She wrote her first play at the age of ten. In 1966, when she was twelve, she and her mother moved to a small town in Florida where they lived for a year. During this time, Valerie experienced difficulties with the public school system, tried a Seventh Day Adventist school briefly, and then dropped out altogeth...

5 Things You Should Know about “Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit” by Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows

About Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows

Being the frizzy-haired tomboy with buck teeth gave Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows a slight case of shyness as a kid. A colorful imagination meant escape and adventure at the drop of a hat.

Over the years she learned that the insecurities she carried around were a waste of time. Elizabeth still prefers a football game to a manicure any day of the week. That indispensable imagination has found its way into her writing providing a sense of joy and true purpose.

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What’s Your Story? How to Become the Hero of Your Own Life by Jill Muehrcke

I have a wonderful guest today. Jill Muehrcke is here to talk about how we can be heroes of our own lives. Jill is the author of Waking Up Happy: A Handbook of Change with Memoirs of Recovery and Hope so that makes her an expert in the field of happiness!

What’s Your Story? How to Become the Hero of Your Own Life

One of my greatest ah-ha moments came when I realized I was telling myself and others outdated stories about who I was. I wasn’t the same person I was as a child, but I hadn’t re...