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Fire Country by David Estes (Through the Shelf Thursday #12)

Title: Fire Country (The Country Saga #1)

Author: David Estes

Genre: YA Dystopian/Science Fiction

Description from Goodreads:

















In a changed world where the sky bleeds red, winter is hotter than hell and full of sandstorms, and summer's even hotter with raging fires that roam the desert-like country, the Heaters manage to survive, barely. 

Due to toxic air, life expectancies are so low the only way the tribe can survive is by forcing women to procreate when they turn...

Happy 4th of July - Help Give Independence to Someone in Need!

Good friend Don Bridges just recently had his 51st birthday.  A grand event seeing that he is one of the longest living ventilated quadriplegics...ever (27 years and counting)!  Each and every year is a blessing for him.



Don is an avid Virginia Tech alum and fan, an adorable cat lover, and one of the greatest people I know. While he strives to stay independent and live his life to the fullest, it takes the kind donations of others to help him do it.  This week marks...

Technical Difficulties (Sentence to Story #27)

NOTE: In lieu of my problems with Blogger lately (which is finally fixed), I figured this was appropriate.



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It's Been Too, Too Long...GIVEAWAY!

SOOOO much!

Long story short...I have missed keeping up with everyone in cyberspace for the last 2 months or so.  My regular day job as a full time writer high school counseling coordinator pretty much goes full blast for the last month or so of school.  Thank you for your patience.



I have been gone so long in fact that when I went to the site today it was all screwed up!  Apparently Blogger has changed their formatting specs.  So...consider this an introduct...

A Haiku on Editing and Revising (Maiden Update #6)

Doing something a little different today.



For about the last month I have been getting feedback and critiques on 'Maiden' from people I respect .  As much as I look forward to their insight - honestly, I do - it gets hard to keep going.  I am not a great writer.  But I want to grow and hone the craft, because I feel like I have a great story.



Having a great story is not the same as being a great writer.



I want people to see what I see and feel what I feel when they read 'Ma...

Divergent by Veronica Roth (Through the Shelf Thursday #11)

Title: Divergent

Author: Veronica Roth

Genre: YA Dystopian/Science Fiction

Description from Goodreads:

















In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote th...

Sticky Situation (Sentence to Story #26)

"Where did you get that candy bar?" Danielle asked her five year old son, Thomas.



Thomas looked up from his car seat, chocolate lining his lips, and slowly placed his hand with the wrapper behind his back.  He did not answer.



Danielle stood in the opening of the van door, the sun beating down and the groceries getting warm.  A drop of sweat ran down her cheek.  "I asked you where did you get that candy from?"



"It's mine.  I found it," Thomas said, wide eyed.  His...

I Promise...I'm Not Dead!

I just realized it's been well over 2 weeks since I posted anything...shame on me.  I have been very, very deep into revising and trying to get the manuscript for MAIDEN ready for submission.   Circumstances presented themselves recently to allow me extra time to focus on my manuscript, and I took it.



So for those who have emailed me, wondering if I am still alive, I apologize for the absence of any short short stories or writing posts as of late.  I'm not dead...yet.



But I...

From Point A to Point B (Maiden Update #5)

So where is this story I keep talking about?  Oh it's there...no, really, I promise.  I'm just making it gooder and gooder as the days go on:-)



I finished my very first completed draft (what I call the plot draft) in April 2012.  I was at roughly 120,000 words.  I had completed from point A to point B.  I could give the story to somebody and have them read it and they would be able to connect the dots.   I wasn't ready to give it to people yet, but if I did, the...

Son by Lois Lowry (Through the Shelf Thursday #10)

Title: Son (The Giver #4)

Author: Lois Lowry

Genre: YA Science Fiction/Fantasy

Description from Goodreads:















They called her Water Claire. When she washed up on their shore, no one knew that she came from a society where emotions and colors didn’t exist. That she had become a Vessel at age thirteen. That she had carried a Product at age fourteen. That it had been stolen from her body. Claire had a son. But what became of him she never knew. What was his name? Was he even alive?...