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Writing and editing your book
Being an author and getting your novel or story published is not an easy job. First, you have…
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Library bookmobiles provide an important service | Bookends
A very fond memory from my childhood is the arrival of the library bookmobile at the playground of…
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Start the new year with local books you might enjoy | Bookends
Resolve to participate in the One Book, One Community in 2018.
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Author June Cotner and her little books | Bookends
It isn’t often an author gives a mission statement to a publisher, but June Cotner did. Her mission…
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A Mourner of Swine” – a memoir and cooking with lavender | Bookends
When we finish our formal schooling and are ready to get on with our lives, many of us…
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“Writing on the Landscape” can help with writer’s block | Bookends
Writers use all kinds of ways to help themselves get past that dreaded writers-block which seems to afflict…
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Time to write your memoirs | Bookends
Have you ever wished you could ask your mother or grandmother a question? Obviously, it’s too late after…
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‘Memoirs From A Prison Cell’ a troubling tale | Bookends
The sub-title for book one in the “Memoirs From A Prison Cell” trilogy is “The Missteps Of A…
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Discovering the Kitsap Peninsula | Bookends
The holiday season is fast approaching and, for lots of families, this means visitors.
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A great gift book for the holidays | Bookends
I think every family has a favorite member who is a great story teller. That person can regale…
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Author Deanna Holm-“An Adventure in Tropical and Temperate Rainforests” | Bookends
Homeschooling has become very common in our society. If you homeschool, there are groups for your children so…
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‘The Criminalist’ put the characters you care about in danger | Bookends
In many of the mystery and suspense books we like to read, the bad guy is proven guilty…
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‘Wild Bird’ by Wendelin Van Draanen | Bookends
This week, I interviewed an author in a new way.
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‘The Deerwhere Awakening’ | Bookends
The Deerwhere Awakening: Here’s another sci-fi book that captured my imagination. Author J.W. Capek has created a world…
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Revisiting familiar authors and their newest books | Bookends
When I started writing my column, my first author interview was with Elena Hartwell. Her first book, “One…
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Beverley Lehman West finds her way back to Paris | Bookends
When you were young, did you long for a great adventure? Author Beverley Lehman West certainly did, and…
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A science fiction series worth reading | Bookends
Did you ever sit down with a book intending to read just a few pages and end up…