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How to Become Your Best Self

a guest post from Christine Reidhead, author of How to Improve Study Habits

Christine is offering helpful advice all around PLUS she’ll be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC  to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Keep reading to learn more.

For students 13 through college graduation, Christine Reidhead’s guide to building study skills is an extremely important book for those who want to secure their future through good grades.BUY THE BOOK

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Here’s How Yoga Can Increase Your Creativity

Bump up your creative juices.

Yoga, once an esoteric practice looked upon with suspicion by the majority of Westerners, is now as mainstream as Martha Stewart and Little League. Al…

Here’s How Yoga Can Increase Your Creativity

5 Reasons Fiction Writers Should Blog

While this blog’s focus is on writing, writers, and books, it occurs to me that bloggers are writers, too. Suzannah Windsor Freeman has graciously allowed me to re-post one of her best offerings from her Write It Sideways site to get you started or to encourage you to keep on blogging. Thanks, Suzannah!

Lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of internet articles related to writers and blogging.

Since marketing a book is largely being left up to its author these days, fiction writers are be...

Dear Brave Friend – dealing with the loss of your pet

I’m so pleased that Leigh Ann Gerk, author of Dear Brave Friend, found time to share this guest post. You’ll find information about her helpful and heartfelt book below, as well as an opportunity to win a copy.

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Pet Loss: Grief vs. Depression

guest post from Leigh Ann Gerk, MA, LPC

The depth of grief experienced after losing a cherished pet can often catch people off guard; despite knowing it will be heartbreaking to say goodby...

A few of my favorite things

In addition to whiskers on kittens and Bernie’s warm mittens

The good people over at Long and Short Reviews have set forth a list of topics for their Wednesday Blogging Challenge in 2021. These are general prompts, and yet they all remind me of books. Here’s where the prompt led me today.

Image by MrGajowy3 from Pixabay

Bookmarks! For keeping my place in a book, I use scraps of paper or whatever object is handy. The bookmarks are room décor.

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Doreen M. Cumberford – Three Questions & a Cover

Three Questions and a Cover — a short interview with one of my favorite authors, along with one of the author’s covers

A few months ago, Doreen kindly provided a guest post (How Living in Saudi Arabia Helped Me Navigate Covid-19– With Splashes of Joy!) for this blog. I’m so happy to have her back now to play Three Questions & a Cover. She’s also sponsoring a giveaway (details after the interview).

Life in the Camel Lane: Embrace the Adventure is what Doreen Cumberford, a Scottish author, c...

What every writer needs to know – a guest post by Saurav Dutt

Writers: This is the best advice you’ll ever receive. ~ DZA

Somewhere between the mountains and the mist in North India, a widower must reconcile himself to the loss and grief that haunts him after the recent death of his wife.

Unhinged by grief, anger, and guilt, John Perera has set off on a journey, a journey to honour the love of his life and to fulfill the promise he made to her to uncover the truth behind the mysterious death of their son. It is a journey of extraordinary self-discovery t...

Cruising the Mississippi with Al & Sunny Lockwood

If you love travel, beauty, history, fabulous food, and genuine old-fashioned fun, you’ll love this amazing paddle wheel adventure along the mighty Mississippi River.

Lately I’ve been thinking that I’d like to travel down the river on a paddle wheeler while all my cares drift away. Until I have the opportunity to make that dream a reality, though, I’ve come pretty darned close while reading CRUISING THE MISSISSIPPI, an account of Al and Sunny Lockwood’s trip from New Orleans to Memphis ab...

A Plastic-Free World for You and Me

by Tracey Szynkaruk

Author Tracey Szynkaruk’s new book is a great way to help you do just that. Children are often far wiser than we oldsters, but their voices are usually ignored. I’ve asked Tracey how a kid can convince grown-ups to reduce plastic waste. See her response (and get more information about the book and a giveaway) below.

Join Theo, a young boy who, with the help of his teacher and classmates, is working to reduce the need for plastic use in day-to-day life. From grocery ...

Dead Silent book blast

And there’s a gift card giveaway!

The secrets must be kept, or the body count will rise…

Are you ready for the eighteen deadly crime thrillers that will keep you up all night?

Shrouded in mystery, these thrillers by eighteen Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international best-selling authors, will keep you turning the pages for weeks. It’s a limited time collection that will introduce you to your new favorite writers.

What made the art thieves kill? Why does the old case haunt ...