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The Appointment
A Short Story By Kirk B. Young
I was five years old the first time he looked at me. It was the middle of the night; I had chicken pox and I'd been scratching feverishly at my body all day only to be put to bed wrapped up in a wool blanket. You'd hope it was a cruel joke and not just malevolence, and truth be told it was neither. Auntie Lilith never had any children of her own, and when she looked after me during the summer months it had always seemed more of a neutrality with which she approached my presence there.
Writing Vertically and Horizontally
By Jessica Quillin
In what ways should you think about marketing your work while writing? To what degree should you think about how what you write connects with the rest of your portfolio or is representative of the topic about which you are writing?
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
By Sarah Schiavoni
I’m not quite sure how I got started on Philippa Gregory’s books. I’ve always been interested in England and its rich history, so perhaps I caught a glimpse of one of her titles on a bookstore shelf and thought I’d give it a chance. Even if I can’t remember which of her books I read first, I do remember falling in love with historical fiction and becoming hooked on her writing. I’ve read and bought so many of her works, they now fill up a whole shelf in my bookcase (and are starting to creep onto the shelf below). I hadn’t read any of her books for at least a year, having thought I’d read most of them already. But when I saw The White Queen, a book I was unfamiliar with, displayed in a bookstore, I picked it up. Like her previous novels, this newest book didn’t disappoint me.
"The Next Step. Well, one of them."
By L.L. McKinney
Last week we touched on what I believe is the most serious condition that ails us as writers: procrastination. I bet some people thought I was going to say something like writer’s block. Being unable to think of what to write, or how to proceed with writing, is indeed a serious matter, but in order to discover that you suffer from writer’s block you have to have sat down and tried to write something.
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WNW talks with author Marlis Day
We recently spoke with Marlis Day, author of the Margo Brown Mystery series (Why Johnny Died, Death of a Hoosier Schoolmaster, and The Curriculum Murders) and The Secret of Baileys Chase, the first book in the Adventures in Bailey’s Chase young adult book series.
