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Happy Thanksgiving from The WordWranglers!

The holiday season is kicking off this week with Thanksgiving in the US, and we want to wish all of our readers the very best this holiday season. We hope wherever you are celebrating this week, you are surrounded by family, friends, and good food.

We'll be back next week with fresh posts and we hope you'll come back to visit with us...until then, Happy Thanksgiving, readers, we are very thankful for YOU!

Days 13 - 18

Day 13 of 30 Days of Gratitude. I'm thankful for blogs. I love writing them and I love reading them. Even when I didn't have a place for my column, Window Over the Sink--thank you, Peru Indiana Today, I wrote it in blogs. Review bloggers are a tremendous help to authors. Special interest blogs on virtually anything keep people in a loop they might not be able to reach otherwise. (They also help with research, not that it's all about me or anything.) Some are funny, some heartrending, some imp...

Getting it Write

by Margie Senechal

Old files are kind of scary. I wandered into an email file titled Betas and realized that I have been writing Bix for around eight years. Why, yes, I do have eight versions and close to 300,000 words to prove it...but really eight years. Wow. 

Either I'm dedicated or crazy. Not sure which.

But then I saw an announcement on Facebook from author Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus. 

Now, The Night Circus is one of my all-time favorite books. Easily in the top...

MUSTERING IN... by Joe DeRozier

It's late for Veterans Day, but here's a post from my favorite baker, Joe DeRozier, about the way it's been for a lot of new recruits in a lot of lonely places.
I was sitting in my living room, just waiting.Mom was busy doing things around the house that didn't really have to be done, while my sister calmly sat on the couch. Dad had to work. He asked if I wanted him to stay to see me off, but I knew he hated to miss work. He WOULD have had I asked, but I'm not sure if I could have handled sayi...

A THOUSAND CUTS by Joe Scheidler

I can't tell you how thrilled I am to welcome Joe Scheidler to the Window. He read this essay aloud at a Writers' gathering at Black Dog Coffee House the other night and I begged (with dignity, of course) him to visit us here. 

Joe is a native Hoosier with an advanced degree in ecology. He worked for IDNR as a wildlife biologist and owned and operated Springcreek Landscaping for 25 years. The solar advocate practices sustainable living with Lee, his wife of 40+ years. They live near Logan...

Today, I am Thankful ~ @AuthorKristina Knight

Photo Courtesy: Photo by Jessica Castro on UnsplashFor the past few years, I've been participating in the #30DaysOfThanks hashtag. I think it started on Twitter, but I do it on Facebook because it's the social media that I like the most. Well, actually, that isn't true. Instagram is my favorite...at least recently. I just love all the pretty pictures.

But I digress.

I started doing the challenge, which is to post one thing for which you're thankful throughout the month of Novembe...

Holiday Gift Guide @JanaRichards_

Need a holiday shopping hand this year?
I’ve teamed up with over forty-five award-winning/bestselling authors to bring you the ultimate holiday gift guide for any booklover. The best part: it’s an online store. Scroll away and do all your holiday shopping in one place. Who knows? You might even find a few books you’d enjoy for yourself. 

https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/holiday-gift-guide

To rally or to president @Liz Flaherty

This is Election Week. I can remember when Election Day was just that--one day. There would be signs all over the place, even then, and too many commercials that still maintained at least a veneer of civility, but it was still just a day. You did your duty, people conceded, others crowded stages with their families and smiled a lot. The next day, everyone went to work as usual. People who were being replaced started cleaning out their mental desks, I'm sure, but they went to work. Both before...

I'm Back from My Book Blog Tour!

I've spent the last week in book promotion land and although it's been lovely and amazing to see all the hoopla around A SMALL TOWN CHRISTMAS , I'm ready for life to get back to normal. When I figure out what that is, I'll let you know. Yikes, I"m still in promo mode, I just added a link to my book title--it was completely unconscious...crazy.

I suck at promotion, so I was beyond grateful for the help of PRISM Book Tours, who set up my book blog tour and arranged for all the reviews and spotlig...

The Test of Time @JanaRichards_

My birthday is coming up in a few days. I won’t say which one; suffice it to say I’ve been around the block once or twice. But it’s got me thinking about my writing and an uncomfortable question.
Will my books stand the test of time?
Recently, my husband and I went to see the play version of “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen. It’s hard to believe Austen wrote the book some two hundred years ago and people are still finding enjoyment in her words today. But I guess if you write with the wit...