Suggestions of books to read in the coming year
Resolve to participate in the One Book, One Community in 2018.
A holiday poem by auhtor Donna Lee Anderson.
It isn’t often an author gives a mission statement to a publisher, but June Cotner did. Her mission is to create books that “offer comfort,… Continue reading
When we finish our formal schooling and are ready to get on with our lives, many of us go to college or find a job… Continue reading
Writers use all kinds of ways to help themselves get past that dreaded writers-block which seems to afflict us all. Now there is a book… Continue reading
Have you ever wished you could ask your mother or grandmother a question? Obviously, it’s too late after they are gone. But wouldn’t it had… Continue reading
The sub-title for book one in the “Memoirs From A Prison Cell” trilogy is “The Missteps Of A Southern Boy,” and that really tells the… Continue reading
The holiday season is fast approaching and, for lots of families, this means visitors. So, what do you do with those visitors? Show them around… Continue reading
The Deerwhere Awakening: Here’s another sci-fi book that captured my imagination. Author J.W. Capek has created a world that just could happen in the not… Continue reading
I think every family has a favorite member who is a great story teller. That person can regale us with stories on almost any subject… Continue reading
Homeschooling has become very common in our society. If you homeschool, there are groups for your children so they can get different perspectives and connect… Continue reading
In many of the mystery and suspense books we like to read, the bad guy is proven guilty because of the forensic evidence. The police… Continue reading
This week, I interviewed an author in a new way. Wendelin Van Draanen gave a presentation of her YA book “Wild Bird” to middle-school students… Continue reading
When I started writing my column, my first author interview was with Elena Hartwell. Her first book, “One Dead, Two To Go,” was an Eddie… Continue reading
When you were young, did you long for a great adventure? Author Beverley Lehman West certainly did, and she followed her dream. In her book… Continue reading
Did you ever sit down with a book intending to read just a few pages and end up devouring the whole book and wishing for… Continue reading
