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Sunday Book Review – Pure Trash – Prequel by Bette Stevens

  Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. It seems I still haven’t finish my longer read so I took the opportunity of reading a shorter read in between finishing my current read. I chose to read Bette Stevens’ short story, Pure Trash. This book is the prequel to Bette’s – Dog Bone Soup, where we get […]

We are the World Blogest – #WATWB – Our Story – 4ocean – Saving the Ocean One Pound at a Time

  It’s that time of month again when our group of #WATWB – We are the World Blogfest writers share a post about something good going on in the world to deflect from the negativity and highlight some of the goodness going on in the world.   Buy a bracelet, pull a pound of plastic. […]

Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge -Synonyms Only

  This week’s Poetry Challenge at Colleen Chesebro’s blog, Colleen has given us the words ‘cold’ and ‘safe’ to create synonyms for to include in our style choice of poetry.         The Beckoning Beach   It’s Almost Time to leave Grey skies and frost For warmer climate Where the sunshine beckons And […]

Rodeo #2: Memoir Flash Nonfiction Contest at the Carrot Ranch Literary Community

    Last month Charlie Mills of the CarrotRanch ran a month long Flash Fiction Rodeo Contest. Each weekly contest consisted of a subject to compose our 99 word entries for. Today I’m sharing my entry for the Memoir Flash Fiction Challenge. The subject for the story was “She Did It”. Although I didn’t win, […]

Sunday Something Different – Decoding the Numbers – Angel Messages

  Something a little different today as once again, I’m behind in my reading and have no new review this week. So today I’m sharing my post on Angel Messages that I wrote for my collaborative blog on Sisters of the Fey.   Decoding the Numbers – Angel Messages   What are these repeated number patterns […]

Writer’s Tips – 5 FREE Design Tools for Writers, Copyright Rules, Amazon Reviews

  Welcome to this week’s edition of Writer’s Tips. Lots of goodies here today from copyright rules, photo editing tools, Amazon reviews, book marketing to manuscript tips.   This article gives an in-depth explanation about why you should never quote song lyrics in your books http://blog.bookbaby.com/2018/11/lyri...     Some great tools offered in this post […]

Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge – Mercury Retrograde

  This week’s Poetry Challenge at Colleen Chesebro’s blog, we were given the words ‘celebrate’ and ‘number’ to replace with synonyms. My tanka includes ‘counting’ and ‘festive’.   Mercury Retrograde       Struggling to get through This crazy retrograde time Festive cheer on hold A collision course of sorts Counting days till normalcy   […]

Memoir Bytes: – Love Notes and Other Words

Childhood Scribbles   Whenever I’m asked when my passion for writing evolved I always remember that my journey began through writing love notes for the people I loved as far back as I can remember as soon as I learned how to write, which is stated in my bio.   As a child, I had […]

Sunday Book Review – Songs of Heartstrings #Poetry

  My Sunday book review is for Miriam Hurdle’s new poetic memoirs – Songs of Heartstrings. A beautiful sharing of thoughts and memories from the heart.       Blurb:   Human being has the will power to travel through an exhausting journey, win a tough battle, and heal a deep wound. Strength from hope […]

Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 110, “Pleasant & Read,” #SynonymsOnly – Colleen Chesebro ~ The Faery Whisperer

    Colleen Chesebro’s Weekly Poetry Challenge – Synonyms only for the words ‘Pleasant’ and ‘Read’. Find my Etheree below. Then check out Colleen’s challenge rules below on how to participate!   Skimmers       When You skim The pages Of a great book You’re missing out on All the delightful parts You’ll be losing […]