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Review: A Sound Among the Trees
Description: For 150 years, Holly Oak, a spacious Southern home, has stood the test of time and wills in historic Fredericksburg with Civil War scars to prove it. Marielle Bishop marries into the family with multi-generational ties to the home, leaving behind her...
Blog & Pinboard featured on Author Media
Pinterest for authors has been a hot topic these days, and the well respected Author Media group posted 3 Ways Authors can use Pinterest Guilt-Free. I'm also honored they used my blog and my pinboards as an example! Go to Author Media (add them to your Google Reader...
Running your dream with a partner
For 2012, I've planned on training running a couple 5K races. For no other reason than to motivate myself to exercise more regularly. During the summer, I commuted home on my bicycle, which kept me in good shape and in a good frame of mind. ("Discipline begets...
A few more thoughts on Pinterest
I wrote an overview of Pinterest and it's potential for businesses, writers and the every-day Joe. But after using it for a while more and discussing it with other authors, social media gurus and friends, I have some more thoughts: 1. For authors, Pinterest needs to...
Things I’ve learned in editing my NaNoWriMo Novel…
1. Coming up with good character names in the midst of cranking out 50,000 words in 30 days is not my strongest suit. My fabulous critique partners were commenting on some of my lesser characters and when I said their names aloud, I just closed my eyes and shook my...
Through the eyes of animals: perspective and effect
"...a horse’s life is maybe even more important than a man’s, ’cause a horse hasn’t got no evil in him except any that’s put there by men..." - War Horse by Michael Morpurgo After seeing War Horse in a pre-screening and blogging about it, I've been thrilled to watch...
The flood of January 2012
January 2012 is not yet over, but in the past five days, there has been a flood of epic proportions. I'm not only talking about rain. This is the flooded creek in my neighborhood. Normally it is only around three or four feet wide and a foot or two deep. All over...
Pulling words and thoughts out of the air
Ever have those days where you just aren't sure where your words and thoughts are even coming from? I've been struggling a bit with coming up with blog topics for this week, yet I've been sending others handfuls of ideas for them to write in other areas. Why is my...
Pinterest: Oh, the potential.
I've known about Pinterest for some time - watched others use it. I've had it on my to-do list for some time (I'm a social media coordinator, so it is my job to investigate such things.) Pinterest is an online pinboard. That cork board you have behind your desk with a...
Book Review: All Our Worldly Goods
Description: Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more...