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Holidays and Family

Happy December 1st!!

Hard to believe the last month of the year is already here. Especially since the days in my neck of the woods have been particularly sunny and cheerful and even unseasonably warm, which appreciate now that I’m substitute teaching and often have to cover recess duty.
I’ve subbed in the younger grades these past couple of weeks, and have really enjoyed reading to the classes from the books the teachers have assigned. I really get into it, letting my inner actress out, and the...

A Little Bit More

by Margie Senechal

This is a follow-up posts to a couple of my posts in the past. Things you didn't even know you were still wondering about...

At the beginning of the year, we Wranglers usually choose a word to represent what we want to be our own life's theme for the year. In January, I chose the word More. 

I don't know about the other girls, but I remembered it all the way the through January and maybe into February. And then promptly forgot it.
 
Fast forward many months.

For Thanks...

Rereading at Christmas ~ @AuthorKristina Knight

It's a holiday giveaway week here at WordWranglers, so be sure to leave a comment below...and then check out the other Wrangler posts from this week and comment there too...you never know what you might win!

Liz asked on Monday about our favorite holiday reads. I have two.

Okay, I lied, I have several -- I adore Liz's (and the other Heartwarming Authors) take on small town Christmases, and the anthologies they've put out over the past three or so years. Start with Heartwarming Christmas and the...

Bunny Slippers at the Bar and Other Writerly Moments

As you all know, Liz and I went to Madison a couple of weeks ago for our annual writing retreat and girly time. The hotel we ended up at was so delightful that we're determined to return to the Riverboat Inn in warmer weather so we can enjoy their sun porches and the pool. One thing we did enjoy immensely this trip was the lobby and the bar--we spent most of our three days camped out at a table in the lobby with our laptops. We both got a lot done--Liz wrote The End on the book that's due Dec...

Starry nights, a giveaway, and what's your favorite?

Good morning! I hope you had the best of Thanksgivings. I loved it. Lots of food and all of my family in the same room except two. Black Friday was fun, too. I don't care about the bargains anymore, but spending hours of laughter time with my girls and grandkids is pretty priceless.

With new books out all over the place and holidays...well, all over the place, it's a busy time for all of us. A favorite time for sure, but busy nonetheless. I'd like to invite you all to the Starry Nights &a...

Holiday week

The Wranglers will be back next week!

Romance for the Holidays Giveaway!

ROMANCE FOR THE HOLIDAYS GIVEAWAY
Ho-Ho-Ho! Kindle Santa is on his way! Enter our giveaway from November 13-30 and you could be one of 7 lucky winners to take home some Christmas loot, including Kindles and Ebook Prize Packs where you choose the books you want to win! Check out the Rafflecopter:
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Mermaids and Dragons!

Happy Friday-Before-Thanksgiving!

Firstly, I'm part of a multi-author Facebook Hop going on now through November 20th. Feel free to start at my link below (or at any of the participating authors' Facebook pages, if you want). Then continue hopping through the rest of the authors. Many of us are doing our own giveaways, and there is a final big prize to be announced on November 20th. I am giving away a Kindle version of "The Lake House" anthology (you know... the one with my merm...

The Metamorphis of an Idea

by Margie Senechal

The number one question writers are asked has got to be, "Where do you get your ideas?" For writers, it's an easy and hard question to answer.

Some days you feel like, "Where don't I get my ideas?" Other days, it's "I wish I knew." and still others, "I steal them."

For me, the initial idea is easy. I have a folder of ideas--along with sticky notes scattered along my desk, news clippings on my bulletin board--to prove it. 

The real work comes in the harvesting of the idea....

#WW: You Can't Edit a Blank Page

Sometimes I feel like there hasn't been a time I haven't been editing. In journalism school we edited and edited to get our news articles just so and once they were perfect on the page we printed them out and pasted up the paper. When I moved into TV news I learned that kind of editing was simple. In television they send you out in the big, wide world, tell you to shoot good pictures and get good interviews...and then come back and make the hour of footage you just shot into a story of a minu...