
Favorite 5 Quotes – Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert “Elizabeth is best known, however for her 2006 memoir EAT PRAY LOVE, which chronicled her journey alone around the world, looking for solace after a difficult divorce. The book was an international bestseller, translated into over thirty languages, Read More …
Stephanie Berget – Sugarwater Ranch
Please welcome author Stephanie Berget Stephanie Berget was born loving horses and found her way to rodeo when she married the Bronc Rider. She and her husband traveled throughout the Northwest while she ran barrels and her cowboy rode bucking Read More …
3 Writing Quotes from Ursula K. LeGuin
1. …life and commas “The poet Carolyn Kizer said to me recently, ‘Poets are interested mostly in death and commas,’ and I agreed. Now I add: Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.” (Ursula K. LeGuin, Steering the Read More …
3 Quotes from Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird
I’m reading an amazing craft book on writing: Bird by Bird, Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott (Random House, New York, 1994). As one critic said: “Superb writing advice…hilarious, helpful and provocative.” (New York Times Book Review) Read More …
Kathy Bennett – A Deadly Justice
Hi Jo-Ann, and thank you for having me on your blog. So, you said you’d like to know a little about me. When I was about twelve years old, I discovered the television show Dragnet. I was sure that I Read More …
My First Trophy! ECWC 2013
photo by Jacqui Nelson First Place in the ECO My novel, Fighting Fear, which I think I’ll start calling The Lost Vermeer, came first in the Romantic Suspense category in the ECO competition, Emerald City Opener, the Greater Seattle Romance Read More …
Seal Under Covers by Sharon Hamilton
Writing SEALs in Series Thank you, Jo-Ann for having me on your blog today. I’m a native Northern Californian, and a second generation one at that. So is my husband. I live in the beautiful Sonoma County area – home Read More …
Learning Scrivener (Week 2)
Week Two I’m taking a fantastic course on Scrivener, a software program for writers, given by Gwen Hernandez. In the second week we’ve covered: more about the inspector (i.e., the third section on the far right of the screen that Read More …
Joanne Guidoccio – Between Land and Sea
JOANNE GUIDOCCIO’S SECOND ACT Thank you for having me as a guest, Jo-Ann. It’s hard to believe that five years have passed since retiring from my first act, a 31-year teaching career. I had only a vague idea of what Read More …
Lois Winston – Love, Lies and a Double Shot of Deception
1)tell us about yourself Award-winning author Lois Winston writes the critically acclaimed Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series featuring magazine crafts editor and reluctant amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack who Kirkus Reviews dubbed, “North Jersey’s more mature answer to Stephanie Plum.” Lois Read More …
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