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Insight, a new YA Fantasy

An exciting new YA 

Fantasy 

by the 
ambitious, creative, original and 

energetic 

Terron James. 

You can read a great interview with Terron and enter his giveaway here: Terron James Interview and Giveaway. Be sure to enter the giveaway!

INSIGHT, a 426-page young adult high fantasy is Terron James’ debut novel and the first installment of four in the Beholders series. James has masterfully crafted the mystical land of Appernysia, a world brimming with rich history...

The running of the Bulls ---in Logan, Utah

I've seen painted cows in Chicago, black labs in Sun Valley, and now . . . . in my adopted home town of Logan, Utah, bulls. (USU's mascot is a bull.)Here are some of the creations:

Center for Persons with Disabilities Meet Lil' Marv, the CPD-sponsored bull. He's named in honor of Marvin Fifield, one of the CPD's founders. Lil' Marv is painted in Aggie Blue chalkboard paint which will allow him to be decorated time and time again as he appears at various Cache Valley events. He might even serve...

Thinking of Mom

In memory of Lorene Ethel Miller Craner
One of my earliest memories is sitting in my mother’s lap while she read to me. A favorite poem of mine was “Father William” by Lewis Carroll. My mother had a lovely voice and was very expressive. She always said it made me laugh when she read:

“You are old, father William,” the young man said,
“And your hair has become very white.
And yet you incessantly stand on your head;
Do you think, at your age, it is right?”
“In my youth,” father William replied to...

My publisher, Jolly Fish Press

Jolly Fish Press, a publishing house based in Provo, Utah, opened its doors for submissions in October 2011. With an editorial board consisting of a team of associate editors who've worked on editorial projects for Houghton Mifflin, Allyn & Bacon, Pearson's Group, and Harper Collins to name a few, it is on the lookout for outstanding manuscripts with impeccable story-telling and writing.

Jolly Fish Press currently has forty amazing titles under its name scheduled for 2013 and 2014 releases...

An excerpt from Gabriel's Daughters&n...

     An excerpt from Gabriel's Daughters




        "Amy was everything one could want in a daughter: thoughtful, nurturing, soft-spoken, and well-trained in the domestic skills she would need for her future. She could often be found holding a niece or nephew in her arms, singing or reading to them. 'That youngest daughter of yours will make a fine wife and mother,' he had heard many times from admiring men. However, comments like that from his contemporaries ha...

The Trials of being a Fairy Godmother

Book Review: Fairy Godmothers Inc. by Jennifer Wardell


April 27"Fairy Godmothers, Inc." Launch Party1-4 p.m.Barnes and Noble, 1780 Woodland Park Dr., Layton, UT


Fairy Godmother Rule Number One: Never argue with a client.  As long as someone’s willing to pay for them, dancing elephants,  solid-gold princes, and fifty-foot high stacks of down-filled mattresses  are perfectly fine requests. And never, under any circumstances, point  out when a client is being an idiot.

With this int...

Book Review and Author Interview: From Rivets and Rails, Recipes of a Boarding House Cookbook

 From Rivets and Rails is a charming cookbook that preserves a historical era as carefully as its cooks preserved their food---and their recipes. As many successes originate, the endeavor that led to this cookbook was started out of necessity, as Elizabeth Shade Kennedy found herself suddenly widowed with five young sons to raise. To support her family, she established a boarding house for railroad workers on the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad lines and kept a detailed cookin...

Hedgebrook Day Seven: Going home and making some resolutions

(The last in a series of posts about the week I spent at Hedgebrook Writers Retreat for Women on Whidby Island off the coast of Washington in December 2012)



the blue Dutch door  of "my" Willow Cottage
the office. where they take care of administrative details, and you'll usually find
 a  happy dog who comes to work with a staff member.
the barn, where larger groups meet for readings and social events
for internet access, residents visit the pump house

or the farmh...

Hedgebrook Writers Retreat Day Six: a Photographic Essay

(Continuing a series of posts about the week I spent at Hedgebrook Writers Retreat for Women on Whidby Island off the coast of Washington in December 2012)

On the path to the cottages
A place for everything and everything in its place

[image error] In case of earthquake, put on the hard hat.
What the grounds look like in the spring and summer
Photo c/o Hedgebrook

The path to the farmhouse - in the spring
photo c/o Hedgebrook
When evening falls
photo c/o Hedgebrook
"The woods are lovely, dark and...