Joëlle Anthony
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CRANFORD & CRANFORD REVISITED
I thought about putting this post on Need To Read, but it's quite close to my heart. The story starts back when I was about thirteen. I was at the public library, it must've been summer because I didn't read much during the school year, and I was browsing the shelves....
Picture This!
So...there you are, writing away, and suddenly your character boards a plane for Pretoria, South Africa (can you even fly there? I have no idea...it might be a tiny village for all I know, or a huge metropolis) or your character's father lives in Albuquerque (which...
Friday 5 – Five things that seem easy for everyone else, but I struggle with…
Just for fun, here are five things that just seem so easy for everyone else, but pose a challenge for me. 1. Typing in those random letters to prove I'm not spam. XKKlefhp It always takes me two or three tries to get my posts to take on blogspot because if it's not...
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More about THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein
Adult Fiction - At first, I was just going to leave it at WOW, but then I decided I couldn't. This truly is one of the best books I've ever read. It has everything. And I mean everything. A unique perspective, a strong voice, humour, drama, love, friendship,...
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN by Garth Stein
WOW!!!!! More about this book
Green Light
Yay! My agent loves my revision. And we now have a title too! It only took me three months, yes, three months to come up with it. And it was last night, when I was adding a final chapter to the book (we had cut the epilogue, but my agent thought I needed some of it as...
New stuff on Need To Read
I've listed a few books on Need To Read, if you're interested...
What I’ve been reading
Here's what I've been reading. As I mentioned before, I'm letting myself off the hook as far as writing long blog posts about each book, but these are recommendations. Anything I read that I don't think is that great will not be listed here, so you're safe to pick...
The Price of a Good Book
One of the most endearing things about my husband is that he refuses to go to bed without me. That means if I'm not ready to go to bed when he is, usually because I'm reading (okay, always because I'm reading), then he gets horizontal on the couch, puts a cloth napkin...
Cowboys and Sherriffs
So I was looking on the internet for some info and while Google did not bring up what I wanted, it did give me a gift I didn't even know I needed to see. Sometimes Google might not give you what you want, but it gives you what you need...okay, okay, cheesy...
The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
A while ago I said that I was on a reading hiatus. What I realized after about ten days is that I really just needed to change the way I read. Three and a half years ago I began trying to get an education by reading a lot of young adult books. If you click on the link...
When Cats Get Spoiled – an essay
Those of you who have been with me for a while know that I sometimes write essays about my cats or other animals. It's a writing exercise and a way to blog about them and still sort of link it to writing... So here is today's installment: When Cats Get Spoiled.
When Cats Get Spoiled- an essay
Looking back through history, it's easy to see why people kept cats. It wasn't because they come when you call them, sit in your lap when you need comfort, or eat leftover food like dogs or husbands do. Nope. It was because they caught mice. People kept them in the...
Forty Things I’m Grateful For
Today is author Sarah Dessen's 38th birthday and on her blog she's listing thirty-eight things she's grateful for. At first I was kind of bummed that I hadn't thought to do that on my birthday last April and then I decided, why not do it now? Here they are in the...
Lucky me!
Blessings & Gratitude! Forty things I'm grateful for: 1. My husband 2. My parents 3. My kitties 4. Applewood smoked cheddar cheese from England being available at my tiny village grocery store 5. My lovely office 6. Deer in the yard 7. Tea with milk (and how my...
Elevators
It's quite possible that I've gone nuts, but what the heck? Here goes nothing. Those of you who read my blog or are SCBWI members, know that over the last two years, I have studied query writing pretty intensely and when I was querying for agents, I had a pretty good...