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Articles by Donna Lee Anderson
Independent bookstores offer local, personal alternatives
Independent bookstores offer local, personal alternatives
By Donna Lee Anderson • March 2, 2018 1:30 am

Do you know what an “indie bookstore” is?

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Writing and editing your book
Writing and editing your book
By Donna Lee Anderson • February 6, 2018 1:30 am

Being an author and getting your novel or story published is not an easy job. First, you have to write…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Library bookmobiles provide an important service | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • January 19, 2018 11:30 am

A very fond memory from my childhood is the arrival of the library bookmobile at the playground of my grade…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Authors to follow in the new year |...
By Donna Lee Anderson • January 5, 2018 1:30 am

Suggestions of books to read in the coming year

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Start the new year with local books you might enjoy | Bookends
Start the new year with local books you...
By Donna Lee Anderson • December 29, 2017 1:30 am

Resolve to participate in the One Book, One Community in 2018.

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Donna Lee Anderson
Merry Christmas — Or Bah Humbug? | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • December 20, 2017 1:30 am

A holiday poem by auhtor Donna Lee Anderson.

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Donna Lee Anderson
Author June Cotner and her little books |...
By Donna Lee Anderson • December 15, 2017 1:30 am

It isn’t often an author gives a mission statement to a publisher, but June Cotner did. Her mission is to…

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Donna Lee Anderson
A Mourner of Swine” – a memoir and...
By Donna Lee Anderson • December 8, 2017 1:30 am

When we finish our formal schooling and are ready to get on with our lives, many of us go to…

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Donna Lee Anderson
“Writing on the Landscape” can help with writer’s...
By Donna Lee Anderson • November 28, 2017 1:30 am

Writers use all kinds of ways to help themselves get past that dreaded writers-block which seems to afflict us all….

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Donna Lee Anderson
Time to write your memoirs | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • November 16, 2017 1:30 am

Have you ever wished you could ask your mother or grandmother a question? Obviously, it’s too late after they are…

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‘Memoirs From A Prison Cell’ a troubling tale | Bookends
‘Memoirs From A Prison Cell’ a troubling tale...
By Donna Lee Anderson • November 9, 2017 1:30 am

The sub-title for book one in the “Memoirs From A Prison Cell” trilogy is “The Missteps Of A Southern Boy,”…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Discovering the Kitsap Peninsula | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • November 2, 2017 1:30 am

The holiday season is fast approaching and, for lots of families, this means visitors.

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Donna Lee Anderson
A great gift book for the holidays |...
By Donna Lee Anderson • October 24, 2017 1:30 am

I think every family has a favorite member who is a great story teller. That person can regale us with…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Author Deanna Holm-“An Adventure in Tropical and Temperate...
By Donna Lee Anderson • October 20, 2017 1:30 am

Homeschooling has become very common in our society. If you homeschool, there are groups for your children so they can…

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Donna Lee Anderson
‘The Criminalist’ put the characters you care about...
By Donna Lee Anderson • October 11, 2017 1:30 am

In many of the mystery and suspense books we like to read, the bad guy is proven guilty because of…

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Donna Lee Anderson
‘Wild Bird’ by Wendelin Van Draanen | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • October 2, 2017 1:30 am

This week, I interviewed an author in a new way.

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Donna Lee Anderson
‘The Deerwhere Awakening’ | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • September 28, 2017 1:30 am

The Deerwhere Awakening: Here’s another sci-fi book that captured my imagination. Author J.W. Capek has created a world that just…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Revisiting familiar authors and their newest books |...
By Donna Lee Anderson • September 18, 2017 12:00 pm

When I started writing my column, my first author interview was with Elena Hartwell. Her first book, “One Dead, Two…

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Beverley Lehman West finds her way back to Paris | Bookends
Beverley Lehman West finds her way back to...
By Donna Lee Anderson • September 11, 2017 12:00 pm

When you were young, did you long for a great adventure? Author Beverley Lehman West certainly did, and she followed…

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Donna Lee Anderson
A science fiction series worth reading | Bookends
By Donna Lee Anderson • September 5, 2017 1:00 pm

Did you ever sit down with a book intending to read just a few pages and end up devouring the…

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Donna Lee Anderson
Two delightful books about myths, mountains and poetry
By Donna Lee Anderson • August 29, 2017 1:30 am

“Olympos” is a book about mountains. It starts with this disclaimer: “Any resemblance to Mount Olympus in Washington State is…

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Recommending Kate Breslin’s “High As The Heavens” | Bookends
Recommending Kate Breslin’s “High As The Heavens” |...
By Donna Lee Anderson • August 23, 2017 9:00 am

“High As The Heavens” deals with ordinary people who rise to the occasion and do extraordinary things.

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D.V. Berkom’s lastest book leads readers through life as a drug addicted junkie.
All about D.V. Berkom’s ‘Vigilante Dead,’ a Kate...
By Donna Lee Anderson • August 18, 2017 1:30 am

Recently, I met with D. V. Berkom, author of “Vigilante Dead,” and of course I had some questions.

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