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Review of Night’s Redemption by Stephen Bentley
Night’s Redemption: A Detective Matt Deal Thriller Book 5 Night’s Redemption tells the story of a small-town lawyer who risks everything to seek justice for an innocent man, like Atticus Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Night’s Redemption is set in current-day Montana, whereas the setting of ‘Mockingbird’ is 1960s Alabama. Ignorance, fear, greed, and corruption are…
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Welcome to the “Poetry Treasures 5: Simple Pleasures” Book Blog Tour
WordCrafter Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures Tour Banner Giveaway This tour we’re giving away digital copies of Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures to three lucky winners. Follow the tour and comment at each stop, so we’ll know you were there. You’ll be entered for another chance in the giveaway at each stop. Winners are chosen through a random drawing by…
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Long Way From Home
Hi everyone! Today I thought I’d participate in Tanka Tuesday Challenge. It’s been awhile since I wrote a syllabic poem. Melissa from Mom With A Blog https://melissalemay.wordpress.com/ is host for this week’s challenge. Here are the guidelines. For this week’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge, I’d like us to write Double Ennead poems. The Double Ennead is a form created by our very…
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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions
Revised Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection. What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems! Emily turned something negative…
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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions
Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection. What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems! Emily turned something negative into…
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Literary Quotes-Who Said This?
“All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.” Ray Bradbury Born Ray Douglas Bradbury · August 22, 1920 · Waukegan, Illinois U.S. Died June 5, 2012 (aged 91) · Los Angeles, California U.S. Education Los Angeles…
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The Importance of Setting in a Story
Be A Better Writer I plan to write weekly posts about improving your writing. Using literary devices and knowing the parts of writing such as planning, organization, drafting, revising, editing and publishing are tools that you can use to create interesting and compelling stories. Today, I’m writing about Setting. But first I want to give you an overview of how…
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Literary Quotes-Who Said This?
Who Said This? In What Book Can You Find This Quote? Give this quote a glance to see if you have heard it before. The full poem is at the end of the post. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of…
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Happy New Year!
Hello! I’m Kay Castaneda whom many of you know from writing groups, classes, blogs or social media. I thought it was time to update you about my writing and other news. You are receiving this newsletter either because you signed up for it or you follow my blog BOOKPLACES or on social media. If you no longer want to receive…
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Day 4 of the Wordcrafter “The French Winemaker’s Daughter” Book Blog Tour
Hi! Welcome to Day 4 of the Wordcrafter “The French Winemaker’s Daughter” Book Blog Tour. Today we have a guest post by the author, Loretta Ellsworth. I haven’t had the chance to read Loretta’s book yet. I plan to read and review it soon. Here is Loretta’s guest post. About The French Winemaker’s Daughter Set during World War II, an…
