tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43321458371943329102024-03-13T03:38:14.771-07:00Writers4HigherWriters hold the key to change. We always have.madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-44857388475055145172019-12-18T07:55:00.001-08:002019-12-18T07:55:21.029-08:00<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: large;">Deep
Thoughts, Bruises and All.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">First of all, <i>Happy Holidays</i>. No matter your outlook or
what you celebrate, I wish you renewed joy and well-being.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Okay. Now. To the pressing matter at hand: keeping on in
a time when the world rages and each headline is more bizarre than the next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Every morning, I tune into the national news. I’d rather
ostrich myself. Truly. But I do live in this jumbled period of history and
construct stories, so I must, if not understand, at least observe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">But I also own deep smile lines. Thank the heavens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I used to be a blind optimist, the kid who found the pony
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">My mother once told me I was a new breed, what she called<b>
“a bruised optimist.”</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is true. I
still hold to the belief goodness and kindness exist, because they do. I bump
into strangers in the grocery store, at the gas pumps, in line at some eatery:
those who smile and pass a few moments, who seem to long for gentle interaction
as much as I do. No social media post can rival the connection between people,
no matter how brief.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In this season where hope and hatred bash against the
glass in equal measure, I vow to bring bruised optimism to my work, to my
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soup, or in some internet media queue, may we all offer balms for bruises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-22661456461557982162019-11-12T09:54:00.000-08:002019-11-12T09:54:51.805-08:00Sure, I am Southern, but drop the attitude...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This has been stuck in my craw for a while, so I need to get it unstuck.<br />
There is, of course, a bit of a backstory...<br />
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Recently, I enjoyed brunch with a good writer friend at a small local eatery. Wonderful company. Of course we discussed our works-in-progress and an upcoming writers' retreat we attend each year. At the next table--inches away--a clutch of men of varying ages discussed books they were reading, or had read. Couldn't help but overhear.<br />
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Being the kind of person who often talks to strangers, I stopped by their table on our way out, to compliment them, as the future of the written word is important to me, as a fellow reader and author. The men smiled and nodded, pleased, I suppose.<br />
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I mentioned as an aside, that both my friend and I were authors. The youngest man--the one with the loudest opinions--asked what I wrote. When I replied "fiction set in the South," he leaned back and crossed his arms over his chest. "I'd never read <i>anything</i> Southern." Mean tone. Snarky, huffed laugh. Judgment intended and received. He went on to further talk down this part of the country.<br />
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Those of you who know me well, know I am seldom at a loss for words. His comments stunned me mute for a beat. We managed to smile and wish them a good day. After my friend and I stepped outside, all I could manage was "wow."<br />
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As with such things, I thought of a handful of rebuttals afterward. How I might have listed notable Southern authors or somehow stood up for <i>us</i>, for <i>myself</i>. I am not one for conflict, being raised to step away from such. Given the current mood in our country, perhaps being able to zip it and walk away is in my best interest, not wanting to wake up dead.<br />
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So...here I sit with my indignation still simmering. I don't cotton to simmering indignation; it keeps me from moving on to more useful projects, like the current work in progress.<br />
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Just because I am from the South, do not EVER decide I am illiterate, racist, or narrow. Yes, there are things I do not like about this part of the country. But there is much to love, too. Biscuits. Big ones-<i>-catheads</i>--with butter and Tupelo honey. Chicken 'n' Dumplings and pecan pie and pickled everything. Country roads carpeted with sugary sand. People who will nod and smile, and wish you a good day and mean it. People who'd rather pass the time on a rocking chair porch, shelling peas and listening to the crickets sing. People who will put down the dang phone and actually look you in the face. People of differing races and creeds who are doing their dadgum best to reach across the abyss and forge a better future.<br />
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I feel better now. I'll <b>forgive</b>, but being Southern, I probably won't<b> forget</b>. Somewhere down the line, in one of my novels, I shall get the last say.<br />
Writers do that, you know.<br />
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Y'all have a good day.<br />
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Rhett DeVane<br />
Southern fiction author<br />
<a href="http://www.rhettdevane.com/" target="_blank">Rhett's website</a><br />
<br />madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-63291965932019527552019-03-30T23:30:00.000-07:002019-03-30T23:30:09.122-07:00Writers4Higher congratulates Pat Stanford<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome back, Pat! Tell us a little about your new book.</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been writing poetry practically as long as I
could first hold a pencil, and have other poems published in several
anthologies. This is my first attempt at publishing a whole bunch of them at
the same time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My mother had several of those little clothbound
write-in books filled with her poems. They were mostly simple little ditties,
but she still had fun with them and wrote them, matching the ink color to the
color of the cover. That is what poetry is to me—just having a bit of fun with
words. I never laid claim to being a “serious” poet and I doubt mine are “for
the ages” yet there are a few gems here, so say friends. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much of my poetry rhymes because I like the added
challenge, and the fact that many of them came to me as songs back when I could
still play the guitar. (Lopping off a fingertip stopped my career as a
troubadour.) Most appear in quatrains, couplets, or similar formats, because
that is the influence that most stuck with me, although I have been stretched a
little by several local poetry groups where we explored new and obscure forms.
I most like writing “off the cuff” as we sometimes do in our meetings, but I
always go back and “mess with them” some more, simply because I can’t help
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Here, I present thoughts on many topics written
throughout my “seasons” of life. Some thoughts have changed along with those
seasons and I may no longer embrace what was written in the same way. Rather
than destroy some poems, I either left them totally alone to remind me how far
I have progressed since they were first conceived or have edited them to be
more contemporary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Tell me about yourself. Your
book(s), your life, your inspiration</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">While I was born in Philadelphia, my farming family
moved to Delray Beach, Florida when I was one, looking for year-round growing
seasons. I lived there until a brief stint in the Air Force took me to California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I graduated Florida State University with a B.S.in
Secondary Education, which was never used for its intended purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I won second place in the 2004 Seven Hills Contest
with my short story, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Divorce Sale</i>,
and am working on other short stories. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fixing
Boo Boo</i> is my first novel length work, which won gold for Florida non
Fiction at Florida Authors and Publishers Association Presidents Awards in 2017.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After being introduced to growing roses by my father,
I created my own rose garden and frequently photograph them to share in social
media. I served as President of the Tallahassee Area Rose Society and am a
bronze medal recipient with the national organization, the American Rose
Society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ago, but it got bogged down in research, so I put it in a drawer. I now think I
am better equipped to finish writing it. The characters are talking to me again
after being shoved to the back of the room several times. I hope they will get
their chance to be heard in the near future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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volume, I am working on a second book about the many types of brain Injury. I’ve
met a lot of people who talk to me at festivals and fairs and they have a
different story to tell. I interviewed and transcribed over 20 stories and now
the real work begins. To make their story interesting and compelling to a
casual reader looking for general information. To make them stop and actually
think about the stories being real people whose lives were interrupted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With
the publishing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fixing Boo Boo</i>, I
begin a whole new chapter of helping people who are not disabled understand
what they don’t understand. I have partnered with the Brain Injury Association
of Florida and the Florida Disabled Outdoors Association in order to help them
in their annual public awareness events and have information at my signing
events to help people with questions on disability. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.rhettdevane.com/" target="_blank">www.rhettdevane.com</a>madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-22349572010885557052019-03-23T23:30:00.000-07:002019-03-23T23:30:11.820-07:00Writers4Higher Congratulates Scott Archer Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Thanks for
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book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">This
is a story of personal triumph, and it takes place in a beautiful place. </span><span style="color: black;">Its themes include loving that-which-will-kill-you,
religion, the Afghanistan war and how it comes home, scars, bankruptcy,
infidelity, and a village Santa Eulalia de Mérida. Its setting is aggressively
blue-collar and poverty bound–true to New Mexico in general. Its jumping off
point is the Church of a Thousand Pews and its finish is in a mountaintop with
a blizzard coming in.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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protagonist, </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Bec
Robertson, is starting over. She's broke, recovering from breast cancer, and
lives in a rundown cabin in northern New Mexico. Her husband is deployed in
Afghanistan and can't stand to touch her. Her villagers are mountain-crazy and
take advantage of her good nature, and her hawk Amelia can't keep up with the
mice. She lives next door to a dubious veterans' center. As if she hasn't
invented enough problems for herself, she has a love/hate connection with an
unstable Marine. Being Bec is tough–but she lives under the numinous skies of
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story, and this one began with a character invented for a short story. The
protagonist Bec is named after a famous New Yorker/New Mexican, Rebecca
Salsbury James, who rode a motorcycle and taught Georgia O'Keeffe to drive. The
story kept growing to fit my Bec's personality. Bec let me know in a hurry that
she was opinionated, strong, and completely unsentimental. From that point, I
just caused her trouble for four years, and then–bang–we had a book.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to know something about the author. Rest assured, I'm not a serial killer and I
don't <i>really</i> believe in Atlantis. The book is dedicated to our Labrador
who passed as we were working on final galleys, so I can demonstrate a soft and
squishy side. I'm currently trapped within my sixth novel and first novella up
here in New Mexico's mountains, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland, and
Norway–plus less exotic locations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a
very long time), and a winery. I'm currently the treasurer of Shuter Library of
Angel Fire, a private 501.C3, and desperately need your money to keep the doors
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">You can get the book at </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.fomitepress.com/">www.fomitepress.com</a></span><span style="color: #333333;">
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Amazon: </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Scott-Archer-Jones/e/B00LF4QDK6?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1552757966&sr=8-1">Scott Archer Jones Amazon Author Page</a></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Thank you, Scott! Writers4Higher wishes you success as you continue your writing career.</b></span></div>
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as I am, you understand two basic truths: all pets are special, and most are
more noble than the majority of humans. Every now and then, one particular
critter shares your life, one that can practically read your mind, one that
digs deep into your heart and shares your spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He came to our home at eight
weeks of age, a fuzz ball, gray tabby born in a lumber mill. The name we
provided the vet was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sisko</i>, but he
rapidly outgrew that title. For the next seventeen years, he answered to Piggy,
based on the fact he never met a food bowl he didn’t love. One of his kitten
pictures shows him sprawled across a pie tin half-filled with kibble, face
down, satiated, and fast asleep. I posted that picture on Facebook years ago,
and it traveled around the globe. A while back, I found Piggy in that full-on
face plant pose, nestled among other snapshots of equally funny animals. The
title of the slideshow compilation: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Have
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Even folks who normally didn’t warm to felines liked him. He came when called,
drank from the bathroom sink, ate nearly every human food allowed, carried on animated
conversations, and was happiest when he was close to his people. I wrote
thousands of words with him reclining next to the laptop, watching me with huge
green eyes, commenting every so often. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In winter, he doubled as a toasty
lap cover during TV time and a pillow hog in the night hours. Did I mention he
was an alarm clock? Oh yes. When he was young, and could still hear the coffeemaker
crank up, he initiated a daily, pacing meow-a-thon that nothing could thwart.
In his senior years, when age diminished his abilities, he slept in the
threshold to the kitchen so he wouldn’t miss the end triple-beep of the Cuisinart.
He saved energy enough to hop onto the bed to awaken the lazy two-legged
creatures. Humans do serve a function, you see. They possess opposable thumbs for opening cans: vital, since no edible vermin or birds share the interior of
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">For the past two years,
Piggy battled failing kidneys and pancreatitis. Aided by the kindest veterinarian
anyone could wish for, Piggy pushed away from the Reaper time after time, with
a fierce determination to live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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managed to pad down the hall, meow the alarm, and meet us in the kitchen. But
he ate only one bite. And, as he had for the past three days, he barely touched
his food and did not drink.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">This past Wednesday, on a
morning as ordinary as any, we had our final chat. I am not sure what he said,
as I am a mere human who can’t decipher his language as well as he could mine,
but I believe it was last-minute instructions on how to carry forward without
him. Along with the other felines and canines that shared this earthly passage,
he will be waiting, and it will only be the swish of a furry tail before we
meet again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <b>1. </b> <b>Tell me about
yourself. Your book(s), your life, your inspiration.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I
grew up in a small town in New Hampshire. You know the play "Our
Town"? It's based on the place I grew up. Seriously. And a lot of the
people there are more interested in making sure your historic home is painted
the proper shade of white and keeping out drive-throughs than getting to know
their neighbors. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It
was a happy place to grow up (mostly). Whether it was because of the lack of
McDonald's or in spite of it, I'll let you decide. As my dad warred with his
neighbor, the town zoning board member, about whether or not he could run a
scrap metal yard out of his house I was playing in the woods, making up
stories, and playing with my three older siblings. This place inspired a lot of
my writing. It is truly a beautiful and magical place to grow up with big
fields, enormous pines, and mountains on the horizon where ever you
turn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My
mom is the reason I love reading and books. And the reason I started writing.
She used to write these stories for children about a little frog. I literally remember
nothing about the frog. I remember sitting in the living room by the computer
completely captivated by this story and the woman who'd created it. She was my
mother. I've been obsessed with stories ever since. Writing my first series of
books in first grade. And attempting a few novels in high school. I always
received good feedback for my short stories but I wanted to write a
book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> When
I met V.S. Holmes (Author of the Reforged Series and The Nel Bently Books) and
we became close I never imagined we'd end up where we
are. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> After
high school, I got married and followed my husband to Camp Le Jeune North
Carolina where he was a machine gunner in the Marines. V went to college in
Canada, we kept in touch but it was mostly out of sight out of mind. Then,
after I had my first child, she reached out to me. "Remember that book I
was writing? I finished it" I'd also been working on my book so I offered
to exchange first chapters. When I got the email I was incredibly excited. When
I finished reading it I was horrified. She'd written these beautiful passages
and a compelling story and I'd just sent her a bunch of drivel! She inspired me
to keep going and keep honing my craft. And never called me out on the crap I
sent her. (Her next chapter was not so polished so I felt better about sending
her pieces). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Fast
forward a few years, I have three kids, have published 7 books (a serial The
Starsboro Chronicles), V has published 5 and we own and operate a publishing
company. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> My
books are all based on myths and legends. Two things I am absolutely fascinated
with. (Except the one that's inspired by serial killers. I wanted to be in the
FBI prior to having kids).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> On
the open ocean. My husband and I have a had a rough go of it. Not that I have a
problem with that, adversity helps you grow, but when we decided to shift our
focus from living in a house to buying a boat, life's possibilities truly
opened up. Traveling with three kids is expensive and well... horrible. But, if
we live on a boat, it costs about $25k a year and we get to go where ever the
wind takes us. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> But,
you need ways to make passive income. That's where online business and books
come into the equation. I write because I love to, but if I can finance the
majority of our living expenses with the press and my books, as I write from
the trampoline of our Catamaran (they are pretty expensive don't be thinking
you can get a Cat for $25K lol that's living and travel expenses) then I will
be living the life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I
love marketing. Especially book marketing because it's truly easy to get behind
the product. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked to sell something
that's really not worth it. You feel gross and just want to run and hide in a
dark corner somewhere. Books are different. Working with an author and their
books is like working with a puzzle. You need to take their personality and preferences
and figure out how to best showcase their talent and their work. Sometimes it's
a battle. All authors say they want to sell books but most authors are also
scared. Scared that their book isn't worth reading, or scared of rejection and
bad reviews. It's sad when they let that fear control them. I had the opposite
problem with my first book. I just wanted to get it out there and I didn't
understand how editors worked. I thought they were the typo police. The editor
I hired for that, left a ton of typos and I had to hire another. And she helped
me with the story a bit and I thought all was well but I was rarely seeing sell
through. So after a lot of contemplation, I pulled it. And I put it through The
Story Grid. And that made all the difference. But I'm not the norm. If you
had a structural edit from a true professional, you revised and you went
through the steps, your book is worth reading. So swallow your fear, read the
one-star reviews of your favorite books, and let's do this thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I
also have a podcast (The Amphibian Press Podcast) where I help readers find
authors and vice versa through author interviews and books reviews. And I
have a blog for authors to help them navigate today's publishing
challenges. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last (for now) I'm working with a local high school to create a workshop for
students so they can see the benefits of being a writer. It's not true anymore
that you can't make a living from your writing. So, I teach them different
exercises and then at the end, we compile and anthology and I publish
it. This is the first year but I'm hopeful about the prospects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-45845101293397384332018-06-10T08:27:00.001-07:002018-06-10T08:47:49.950-07:00Writers4Higher welcomes singer/songwriter Deanna Squeaky Miller<br />
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This time, Writers4Higher takes a slightly different direction, highlighting the artistic writing <i>and</i> singing talent of Deanna Squeaky Miller.</div>
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Writing and giving back are the backbone of so many artistic endeavors. Enjoy learning a bit about his multi-talented entertainer! </div>
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Your songs(s), your life, your inspiration.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am a Tallahassee native. My city is my living,
and I love it! Family, friends, community, and music is right here for me.
Everything here inspires my art as a singer, songwriter, and performer. I truly
believe God is Love and we should show love to one another through our actions,
and words. My lyrics come from my heart. Some people see it as being too
positive, but I think there’s enough negative music adding fuel to our burning
fires. Spiritual soul does the opposite, uplifting and inspiring the listener
to believe in the power of Love. So, when they hear “Give to You Love”, “Keep
On Praying”, and “Good Medicine” the message is about gratitude and living in
love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Where do you see your singing career taking you in the future?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Well, it’s only been three years as an indie
artist and this journey has opened some awesome doors. I’ve been blessed to
share the stage with artists/musicians like Royce Lovett, Tim Guitargoodness
Clark, Cody ChesnuTT, Isabel Davis, D Swint and international opera singer Mr.
Curtis Rayam, Jr. ,to name a few, and many others I highly admire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I see myself collaborating and writing with some
big names in the music industry within five years, and want to do some touring
, after I release my first full album. Hopefully that will be this year! It’s
not an easy thing.... putting an album together. I am learning as much as I can
about the art of singing, too.....I just want to be a better Deanna Squeaky
Miller in every new opportunity presented to sing for the people!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talents/time to help others?</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Serving through singing means everything to me!
That’s my purpose and I understand what is required of me to fulfill it! You
have to have an unselfish mindset to serve, and I thank God that comes easy
for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I perform at fundraisers and community events
all the time. I mean to witness the joy on individuals’ faces, you know are in
need of a moment to forget about their problems just gives me a sense of
purpose! I love people and I love to serve. That’s why I call my music “love
ministry”. It’s all about showering love in action through music to inspire and
heal our community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/quietasamouse78" target="_blank">Deanna Squeaky Miller on YouTube</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Doc Ford fans, hold onto your sunshades and make sure your beverage of choice is fresh. Randy Wayne White is ready to take you to the wild, reckless, non-touristy Caribbean, the side cruise ships don't count into their shore excursions. Murder, sunken treasure, pirates, and general mayhem add to the quirky cast of characters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Randy Wayne White is a New York Times best selling author
of thirty-six novels, four collections of non-fiction, a cookbook, The Ultimate
Tarpon Book (with Carlene Brennan) and a PBS documentary, <i>Gift of the Game, </i>which won Best of Show at the internationally
respected Woods Hole Film Festival. He
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Caribbean Rim </i>is the 25</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> book in his highly
acclaimed series about Florida Marine Biologist, Doc Ford.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previous titles have enjoyed lengthy stays on
best seller lists such as The New York Times, U.S.A. Today, the Washington Post
and the L.A. Times.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More than one
million copies of the Doc Ford novels are in print.</span></div>
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in three popular Florida restaurants named after his protagonist: Doc Ford's
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about fishing guide Hannah Smith has also received critical acclaim.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">HAUNTED, the third in the Hannah series, and
DECEIVED, were both awarded the Florida Gold Medal for General Fiction -- the
only time in history when an author, or consecutive books in a series, have won
this prestigious award.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">White was
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all of the Doc Ford and Hannah Smith novels have appeared on the New York Times
and other best sellers lists, and are wildly popular around the nation.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">White's novel, SANIBEL FLATS, was chosen by
the American Independent Mystery Booksellers Association as one of the Hundred
Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 2012, Randy was
honored by the Florida Historical Society as a Literary Legend.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">He has been awarded the Conch Republic Prize
for Literature, along with such notables as John Cheever, Peter Matthiessen,
Jim Harrison, and Thomas McGuane. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">He
also won the John D. MacDonald Award for Literary Excellence, as have Carl
Hiaasen, and Thomas Cochran.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">He is one
of only five </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">Editors at Large</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> for
Outside Magazine, along with Jon Krakauer, David Quamman and Tim Cahill, and
was a contributing editor and columnist for Men's Journal and National
Geographic Adventurer.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 2009, Randy was
elected an American Fellow by The Explorers Club, New York City.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">In 2013 Gulfshore Life Magazine honored him
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in Florida civic affairs.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">He spent four
years serving on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission, and also four
years on the Florida Bar Association Grievance Committee,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">appointed by the Florida Bar.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in;">He was also a co-founder of Big Brothers in
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Randy was a
light tackle fishing guide at Tarpon Bay Marina, Sanibel Island for 13-years,
did more than 3,000 charters, and draws heavily on those experiences for his
novels about marine biologist Doc Ford and his quirky pals at Dinkin's
Bay. In 2003, he became one of the
founding partners in Doc Ford's Rum Bar and Grille, with restaurants on
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singer/songwriter Wendy Webb, live on Sanibel, where he enjoys paddle surfing
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hi Darrell. Welcome to Writers4Higher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I am something of a hybrid creature,
geographically speaking. While I lived in Syracuse, NY from third grade through
high school, I was born in Sanford, NC, and lived in Atlanta and New Orleans
early on. Later, I went to college just outside Charlotte (Belmont Abbey
College) and worked for newspapers in Columbia, Charleston and Lynchburg,
VA. Thus, I have most of the iconic southern cities checked off.
Moreover, I spent several childhood summers with my grandmother in Raleigh,
NC. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The result is, I have always been able to
philosophically straddle the Mason-Dixon Line, with a keen sense of the
peculiarities of both northerners and southerners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Most of my writing career has been in the newspaper
business, including 36 years with the News & Advance in Lynchburg, VA. By
the time I retired in 2013, I had written over 6,000 columns and another 4,000
or so feature articles for that paper, and I still freelance for them on a
regular basis although my wife, my 93-year-old mother and I now live in Lake
George, NY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Remaining in one place that long was highly
unusual, since journalism is normally a nomadic profession. I did
have offers from larger papers, but by then I had become very much part of the
Central Virginia community and didn't want to uproot our two children. Later,
of course, they uprooted themselves, my son settling in Colorado and my
daughter moving to Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">It pains me greatly when I hear people lump
together all the myriad and diverse newspapers, TV stations, radio programs and
Websites into "The Media," as if we all take our marching orders from
the same source. I, too, have issues with the way news is often presented,
especially on television, but I can also say that in several decades with the
News & Advance, I very rarely saw any political or social agenda lurking
within a news story. Only twice in 30-plus years did I hear of one of our
writers actually making up facts, and both of those people were fired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">As a columnist, my job was primarily to write
stories that fit somewhere into that vague but rich territory between
"hard news" and editorials. Sometimes I expressed my personal
opinion, other times I just stuck to the facts. I made it a point, whenever I
could, to write about people just because they were interesting, not because
they had necessarily done anything "newsworthy" in the usual sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Among the things I'm proudest of are starting a
campaign to name a local expressway after Desmond Doss (a Lynchburg man who was
the only conscientious objector ever given the Medal of Honor), pushing for
funds to put an elevator in a three-story YWCA residence, and convincing a
regional bank to forgive a debt owed by a man who had been in a coma for
several months with a head injury (they were going to foreclose on his house).<br />
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Before I beat readers over the head with my opinion, though, I always made it a
point to hear both sides of any issue. Sometimes, doing that changed my mind.<br />
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For the most part, my newspaper let me pick what I wanted to write about.
Although I worked in a relatively small community, I was able to cover two
national political conventions (including driving cross-country to San
Francisco in 1984 and writing columns along the way), the aftermath of
Hurricane Hugo, a lengthy and contentious coal strike, the Miss America
pageant, the NCAA basketball Final Four, Pope John Paul II's visit to Columbia,
SC, and any number of stories revolving around the Rev. Jerry Falwell,
Lynchburg's best-known citizen. I covered Lynchburg-related stories in
Guatemala and the Czech Republic.<br />
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Since retiring, I have started a blog called "Snowflakes in a
Blizzard" (snowflakesarise.wordpress.com) which I describe as a
"unique, author-friendly and absolutely free book marketing project."
Go there, and you'll see what it's about.<br />
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While with the newspaper, I always tried to engage in at least one
community-oriented program at a time. Over the years, I volunteered for a soup
kitchen, a suicide hotline, a home for recovering alcoholics and a rural arts
center. "Snowflakes in a Blizzard" is a continuation of that.
All of these activities have paid me back far more than the time I expended.<br />
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My writing career has been varied, if not necessarily wildly successful. I quit
my Charleston newspaper job to start a statewide sports magazine that went
broke after two years. I've published five books, and just finished my second
novel, titled "The Last Supper League." Several more books are
rattling around in my head, anxious to be released.<br />
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We moved to Lake George to take care of my Mom, who has dementia. This has
taught us patience, never a bad thing.<br />
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My wife Gail is an artist. We've been married for 45 years and we complement
each other beautifully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/">Snowflakes in a Blizzard blog</a></span></div>
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<b>Rhett DeVane</b></div>
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<b>Southern fiction author and blog master</b></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.rhettdevane.com/" target="_blank">www.rhettdevane.com</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. I grew
up in the '40s and '50s in the Bay Ridge Area of Brooklyn. There are four
sections in that area, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bath Beach, and Bensonhurst.
Most of the big families came from those areas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I moved to Long Island, with my family, when I
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My father and my Godfather introduced me to the
teamsters and I started driving semis, and also became an automotive
technician.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I didn’t start writing until I was 71 when a
friend asked me to write a story about myself. She told me she would put it in
book form.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I wrote the first three books in five months and
loved it. These are works of fiction and in the organized crime family genre.
Those first three books are, <i>The Hitman</i>,
<i>The Franchise</i> and <i>The Final Offer</i>. Not long after I was
introduced, by another friend of mine, to a great publishing company, DocUmeant
Publishing in New York City. Ginger Marks, my publisher, is the owner. I asked
her to put these three stories into one book and it is titled, <i>The Other
Brooklyn</i>, and we named the series, The Joey Toranetti Series. <i>The Other
Brooklyn</i> became an award winning number one best seller and also won the
national 2015 FAPA Presidents Award. Book four is <i>The New Breed</i>, and my newest, book five in this series, is <i>The Italian Vendetta</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I firmly believe that my series will eventually
end up as a TV series. I have a lot of confidence in my tales and believe they
are action filled enough to warrant that commercialization.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">How do you use your talents/time to help others?</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">All my life I have helped people build their
business and met great people and learned how to understand what people want.
They just want to be treated fairly. When I am asked about my writing and what
my best piece of advice is for others who want to become published authors my
answer is simply, “Everybody has a story to tell, so don’t sell yourself short.
Just write it!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I also own a travel agency where I am known as
“The Godfather of Travel” and my goal for my clients is to help them create a
great memory. I make their vacation easy to book, pay, and enjoy. That is my
sole purpose in life, Make everything as easy as possible for everyone that I
meet.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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know many of the Writers4Higher family of authors keep plugging away, even if
they, like me, live in a steam-sauna state. My muses despise the heat and
humidity. They’ve packed up and headed to their retreat in Canada. Meanwhile, I
settle into my editor’s role and work on endless, mind-numbing but necessary
revisions. Hey, it can’t all be first-draft play, right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have no worries; those misfit muses of mine will bounce back into town in late
October, full of characters and plot lines, ready for me to sit down and follow
their lead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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after I birthed my latest novel <i>Parade of
Horribles</i>, I took a moment to check in with my author family. A few jotted
emails to catch me up on their projects. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a new book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Comes-This-Jeff-Weddle-ebook/dp/B06XZWPJRQ" target="_blank">Comes to This</a></i>, a poetry
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been busy, with two books released since he was a feature on the blog: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Big-Wheel-Scott-Archer-Jones-ebook/dp/B00U329D08" target="_blank">The Big Wheel</a></i> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Tide-People-Swept-Away-ebook/dp/B01BVFDOAA" target="_blank"><i>A Rising Tide of People Swept Away</i>.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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released two books in his Florida Folk Magic Stories series,<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Conjure-Womans-Cat-Malcolm-Campbell/dp/0989572978" target="_blank"> <i>Conjure Woman’s Cat</i></a> and <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Eulalie-Washerwoman-Florida-Magic-Stories-ebook/dp/B01MAUZVO6" target="_blank">Eulalie and Washerwoma</a>n</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of work, family obligations, births, deaths, the zoo of news, and the other countless
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cool cubicle to the next as fast as my feet will carry me. Mama always said “women
don’t sweat, they glow.” If so, you might be able to see me from wherever you
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madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-14106534623221917132017-05-21T07:09:00.000-07:002017-05-21T07:09:43.708-07:00Writers4Higher family member Marina Brown releases new novel!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mississippi property, Claire Elliston finds herself compelled to rebuild the
house her mother inhabited 40 years before. But the past and its evils come
alive as the ruins are disturbed--laying bare the sins of a time when Jim Crow
ruled the South, when depravity took place behind lace curtains, and when
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of a German doctor in the small community breaks open the past's layered
secrets as Claire is torn between two allegiances —and perhaps two
personalities. Dotted with colorfully naughty Southern humor, this strange saga
leaps time and place as a black and a white family discover their shared need
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the South, isn’t there. Something that through its charm, its languid days and
soft nights, the cadence of its drawls which are more like forgotten songs…
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maybe it’s what used to
happen there in oak groves where dark shadows played against white cloth. Where
manners were the fabric covering naked cruelty. Where the tilt of the head or a
fingertips’ graze could have somebody readying a rope. Yes, the possibility of
something scary was always there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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perceived the South. And I think much of that mystery, the unsettling part you
sense when you pass cotton fields rimmed by rows of abandoned cabins or an
unpainted building with a listing steeple….is still there. But there’s so much
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In my stays in
Mississippi I met women, lots of them, young, old, middle-life women who were
hilariously funny, intensely generous, and utterly sincere. I heard their
worries and their fears and the ways in which they supported one another— doing
it within some sisterhood of the South they may be unknowable to the
Northern-born. They did it with gentility and class, no matter their strata,
and perhaps no matter how they really felt. These were Southern women who knew
how to keep on ‘keepin’ on.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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book, <i>Land Without Mirrors</i>, takes
place on a mysterious Caribbean island, a land of lepers, the Mississippi of <i>Lisbeth</i> is no less exotic. And that is
how I’ve attempted to chronicle the people and the place, the depravity and the
decorum, the secrets of two generations that have come to life again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Recently, I attended a beautiful, uplifting memorial
service for a friend close to my age. Tim McGraw’s <i>Live Like You Were Dying</i> accompanied one poignant video celebrating
his life: his true love, his children, and his passion for adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wherever they go when they leave here, reality taps my shoulder—is it the left one,
where the Grim Reaper hangs out? I forget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Taking Tim McGraw’s words a step further, which I tend to
do, shouldn’t I also write as if I were dying? Meaning, write as if that story,
novel, paragraph, or blog post could be the last time I represent myself on
this planet, in this particular universe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Seems I am in a rush, like most folks, bunching
experiences without pausing to feel, to absorb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">My generation never particularly warmed to “selfie”-satisfaction.
If you spend every pivotal moment grinning into the smartphone screen with a
scene behind you, I urge you to put the dang device down. Turn around. See,
feel, smell, and immerse yourself in the place and time. Later, you won’t need
that selfie to recall what you saw. Better, you will add to a wealth of
sensations to juice up your art, and your life. For once, you will be smarter
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Hold up a sec. I need to stop and listen to some Motown.
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Producing the best work possible. Not <i>perfect</i>—even the top books have an occasional
typo. Those pests are eventually routed to the door. But <i>sound</i>—something worthy of being the last great work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">To my friend, I wish you joy
wherever your spirit travels. Thank you for the reminder to live, and write, as
if I am dying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-69077951187305769422017-03-24T11:48:00.001-07:002017-03-24T12:19:17.104-07:00Time to let another book go...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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typo or two or three. No matter that I have gone through the copy a gazillion
times, or that I have a jam-up editor, or that I have proofed the advanced copy
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minor glitches, all <i>na-na-na-boo-boo</i>.
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up: the expert on everything and anything; the little, kind voice I hear in my
head when self-doubt keeps me awake at night; the leader of my cheering section
no matter that she’s not on this side of reality now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">“Do the very best you
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my latest novel, <i>Parade of Horribles,</i>
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book. Go forth and touch the people you need to touch. I will remain behind,
ready to let the muses take over once more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="http://www.rhettdevane.com/" target="_blank">www.rhettdevane.com</a></span></span></div>
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way writers use their talents and life energies to uplift humankind.
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Secondary Education, which was never used for its intended purpose. I have been
writing poetry for as long as I could hold a pencil, and have poems published
in several anthologies. I won second place in the 2004 Seven Hills Contest with
my short story, <i>Divorce Sale</i>, and am
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the characters living, breathing people you care about. Of course, having a
critique group who are unafraid of ripping the story to shreds and having to
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the publishing of <i>Fixing Boo Boo</i>, I
begin a whole new chapter of helping people who are not disabled understand
what they don’t understand. I have partnered with the <b>B</b>rain <b>I</b>njury <b>A</b>ssociation of <b>F</b>lorida and the <b>F</b>lorida <b>D</b>isabled <b>O</b>utdoors <b>A</b>ssociation in
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find a group for members needing one. This will help them take their writing
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their grounds as well as making roses available to the public. Although lately
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Diane
grew up in Greenport, a small resort town on the eastern tip of Long Island.
She graduated from SUNY at Albany, Seton Hall University, and Fordham University,
where she received a Ph.D. She married her college sweetheart, Robert. They
lived in Tallman, New York, near New York City, and raised a son and daughter. She
taught French, Latin, and English, and for several years was the Coordinator of
a K-12 district-wide English as a Second Language Program. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of shoveling snow and raking leaves, Diane and her husband made a big change in
their lives. Fond of beaches and dramatic sunsets, they moved to St.
Petersburg, Florida. No more snow, but plenty of leaves. She split her time
working as an Educational Consultant and writing, but as soon as her first
novel was published, she turned to writing full-time, and her long-time dream
became a reality. Her short stories have won awards; her novels have been
published internationally. She is a frequent guest speaker at writing groups
and workshops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Tell-Tale Treasure</i> is Diane’s first
novel for SYP, Southern Yellow Pine Publishing. Others will soon follow. Her
five previous novels—<i>The Montauk Mystery</i>,
<i>The Montauk Steps</i>, <i>The Tomoka Mystery</i>, <i>The Cinderella Murders</i>, and <i>The
Treasures of Montauk Cove</i>—were published originally in hardcover by Avalon,
then in paperback by World Wide Mysteries, and recently in hardcover,
paperback, and e-book by Thomas & Mercer, the mystery division of Amazon. She
writes a newsletter/blog to family, friends she grew up with, neighbors,
fitness friends, volunteer friends, writing friends, and people she meets as
she travels the world seeking adventures that often make their way into her
stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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can’t even begin to predict where my writing will take me. A story begins forming when I learn something
new and different (such as the haunting sound of a musical instrument called an
erhu, sometimes called a Chinese fiddle or Chinese violin), then I research the
topic to learn much more, and, most interesting of all, I create characters who
will live that story and possibly help solve the mystery that is taking place.
At that point, the hard work begins: writing and rewriting, discussing my critiquing
partners’ advice and, of course, monitoring the characters, who, in every novel
I write, seem to vie for a bigger role. That’s when I have to ask myself: who
is in control? Is it me or is it the
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a long time, I reached into my past for memories of Long Island, where I grew
up. I branched out to the New Jersey shore after I saw a painting entitled <i>The Woman by the Sea</i>, and created a
story. Two years ago, I traveled to Guatemala on an adventure trip, where my
group climbed high pyramids, swam deep rivers, learned how to shoot a blowgun,
and journeyed through the jungle and onto a balsa raft to travel down an Amazon
tributary. I recorded everything and turned it into an adventure story that
should be in print next year. I didn’t know what I was writing until I got home
and put it all together. So, I don’t know where my writing will take me—and
that’s the biggest adventure of all! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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plays a very important part in my life. Currently, I volunteer as a Friend (and
Secretary) of the South Community Library in St. Petersburg. We organize all
the donated books, sell them once a month at a very popular books sale, and
with the funds we buy summer programs that take place at the library for the
children of all ages. The programs are educational and fun. Most popular this
past summer was the “Ranger” who arrived with boxes of every size (with air
holes), housing animals that he discussed. The favorite was the amazingly long,
bright yellow python. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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classes of creative writing in one day, once a year: First Night (New Year’s
Eve Celebration) where my husband and I serve as information people and sell
tickets to our popular event for all ages. Over the years, I have also volunteered at Bayfront Hospital,
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madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-1931813740606231822016-11-12T23:30:00.000-08:002016-11-12T23:30:18.482-08:00Writers4Higher features author Rick Burnham<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">Hi Rick. Welcome to the Writers4Higher family!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The
Air Force took me away from all that – at least for 22 years. But I was able to
see the world, and visit places that I would almost certainly have missed
otherwise. Korea. Panama. Portugal. Washington, DC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Psychology from Saint Leo, and English from Valdosta State. I absolutely enjoy
the classroom. Just a little weird like that, I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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also enjoy writing, obviously. My first attempt, “Lute Casey, Redneck Vampire,”
is a curious little cross between Stephen King and Jeff Foxworthy and was more
fun to write than I care to admit. The second took a more serious turn. “Moon
Over Berlin” follows my father’s trek through WWII, with a nice little
fictional jaunt thrown in for fun. It was my intent to get it into his hands
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plot of my third and current book, “Hank: The Storyteller’s Story” is a bit
more involved than the first two. At its core, I guess, “Hank” is a love story,
though it is more about the bonds of family and friendship than romance. Sorry,
no “50 Shades” this time around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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talk with a great number of elders living in the state of Florida. I mention that
because I believe our elders to be a tremendous source of inspiration. They are
an absolute treat to talk to, and their stories and experiences are a veritable
treasure trove of material. If there has been one theme with my books, it has
been “old folks talking.” I intend to explore that path a bit more thoroughly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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couple of ways. Through the newspaper of the Department of Elder Affairs (The
Elder Update), I am able to tell the stories of a few of our citizens here in
the state. I enjoy doing it, and if my work brings an enhanced sense of pride
and satisfaction for the people I write about, along with those who read my
stories, then I have done my job. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have been blessed with a very (very) vivid imagination, and if the stories I
put down on paper offer any respite at all from world events for my readers,
then all the better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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madhatterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02465722298999797659noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4332145837194332910.post-43076383599006731172016-10-08T23:30:00.000-07:002016-10-08T23:30:01.693-07:00Writers4Higher features author Waletta Dunn<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I was born in Bossier City, Louisiana and received my
undergraduate degree from Texas College in Business Administration and earned a
graduate degree in Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma. I’m
an established professional in the Human Resources Department at Florida
A&M University, where I have been employed for the last ten years. Before
joining the staff at Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Florida, I
worked for 12 years as a higher education counselor for the military
while traveling with my husband before he retired from the Marine Corps after
20 years of service. The breadth of my personal and professional experiences
have contributed enormously to my writings. A rich slice of American life
is brought to light in my debut novel, <i><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">More Than Sisters</span>, </i>as
it moves the reader through the full range of emotions – joy, pain, laughter,
tears, and triumph! I am grateful that <i>More Than Sisters </i>was
recently ranked among the top 100-rated African American Christian
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I have been married for 30 years to now retired
Marine, Donald Michael Dunn. I am the proud mother of two young, adult
children, Michael Stewart Dunn and daughter, Ashley Elaine Dunn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I took my first accounting class in college, which catapulted my career in a
different direction. However, inspired by my award-winning sister, screen and
play playwriter, Judi Ann Mason <i>(“Sister Act II; Back In The Habit,” ”A
Different World," "I'll Fly Away"), </i>I never lost my love
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Set in Bossier City, Louisiana, <i>More
Than Sisters</i>, is the story of three siblings, twenty-year-old Olivia,
eight-year-old Gayle, and eighteen-month-old Dani. Olivia promises her
dying mother that she will help her father care for the two younger
siblings. Years pass and their father dies of a sudden heart
attack. A series of unexpected occurrences draws the sisters into adverse
situations and they struggle with a dark secret that could drive the family
apart and test their faith in God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">My second novel, <i>Faithful
Father, </i>will be available on Amazon </span><span style="color: darkblue; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">October 15, 2016</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">, It begins<i> w</i>hen a new girl,
Danielle Ferguson, comes to the Texas College campus, her sudden arrival piques
the interest of Edison Hamilton, a handsome member of the Kappa Alpha Psi
fraternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fall in love, Edison seems determined to guard his heart. He struggles with the
pain of abandonment … a pain that has haunted him since his father deserted him
and his mother years ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Despite his reservations,
Edison slowly lets down his guard. Within months, he marries Danielle and
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support of his wife, Edison draws closer to God and is determined to live a
righteous life. After years of no contact, Edison unexpectedly receives a
letter from his estranged father asking for help. Now he finds himself at a
crossroad between the man he used to be and the man he's becoming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the new creation, will forgiveness be the bridge that reconciles his past to
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I pray that my writing
will take me beyond my wildest imagination. I hope to write many more
novels that bring hope, faith and love into the lives of my readers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">I write stories that
make a difference in the lives people. I want to share my experiences in
ways that will benefit hurting people so they will see there is always a way
out and that there is always hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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available at<i> </i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: darkblue; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013X0TKOU" target="_blank"><span style="color: darkblue; text-decoration: none;">http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013X0TKOU</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Hi Michael. Thank you for joining us on Writers4Higher!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I would like
to introduce myself; Michael Kinnett, I am a new author at Southern Yellow Pine
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> After a working career and raising two
daughters, my wife and I moved to the Florida Panhandle. It was in the historic
town of Apalachicola that I began creating and caring for the Orman House State
Park Museum. When I started, the house was an empty shell. Immersed in local
history, I now enjoy sharing Apalachicola’s rich heritage with thousands of
visitors from around the world. <i>Apalachicola
Pearl</i> was born from my passion for the town’s history and its people. My
sincere wish is for you to enjoy reading <i>Apalachicola
Pearl</i> as much as I enjoyed writing her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">When it comes to writing these days it’s not as though I have
much choice. With the storyline for Apalachicola Pearl stuck in my head I
didn’t sleep for four month until I had it all down on paper. There were times
I questioned if a seven year old girl from the 1800s might have been channeling
through me. I will continue writing just for pleasure, I love a well told
story. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I am a story teller and interpreter for the Florida State Park
Service at Orman House State Park Museum. My passion is in sharing the rich
heritage of Apalachicola, Florida, with all who would listen. I feel as though I
have done my job when young people become inspired by history and want to learn
more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Please visit Michael Kinnett on <b>Facebook</b>: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><b>And on Twitter</b>:
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Life is messy, unpredictable and full of mistakes. However, like the puzzle pieces on the autism flag, our happenings usually fit together. I met my husband during my senior year at college. I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Special Education. He was finishing up his Master’s degree in the same field. We had no idea our union of knowledge would be tested years later when we adopted our daughter, Grace. Before Grace was two, she displayed behaviors we hadn’t seen with our boys. One day, she became angry, piled books on her floor, ripped off her diaper and wet all over the beloved stories. Other times, she screamed for hours. An enigma because Grace was extremely loving. Her behaviors intensified as her body grew. Raging hormones was an understatement. Impulsivity produced shoplifting behaviors. When her psychiatrist gave a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, my head pounded as if someone had hit me with a baseball bat. This was a life sentence for our beautiful, creative, fifth grader. Classmates put her into solitary confinement by bullying her. My husband and I were helpless to explain why no one wanted to attend her birthday parties. Our stress increased when Grace tried to commit suicide at high school. Good can come from bad because that led to her duel diagnosis of autism. She hadn’t seen suicide as permanent.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never thought about being an author. It was overwhelming frustration that led me to a keyboard. My fingers struck the keys, releasing feelings of loss, confusion, helplessness, loneliness and anger at God. If my child had cancer, I could yell it from the rooftop. People would have presented us with casseroles and offered prayers. They would have brought their children over to visit. “Mentally disabled," “bipolar disorder,” and “autism,” scares people. Bewildered parents try to hide their special needs child under a blanket of secrecy. It might work if those pesky, odd behaviors didn’t pop out in public places. Glory to God for holding us in his hand. He chose my husband and I, our sons, and extended family to make a great team. Grace has grown into a successful young woman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s difficult to work on a relationship with your spouse when a battle rages inside your child’s brain. My husband and I began ballroom dancing. Working as partners on a dance floor has helped us be partners in life. It’s provided exercise, stress relief and new friends. I became a yogi a year ago. Yoga helps me to remember to breathe deeply and stay in the moment. When I’m tied up in knots, I tie knots with knitting needles. I’ve knitted a few scarves and hats and have become a Knitwit. Scrapbooking brings happy memories to the forefront. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My seven-year-old brother taught me to read when I was three, and I remember writing anthropomorphic stories shortly after that. “Arthur the Antelope” was the first one, and, since my father was a visual artist, I remember sketching Arthur frolicking among some flowers as an illustration. I’m not sure how many letters of the alphabet I made it through before abandoning that project, but I’m sure I could count them on one hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Old Yeller</i> was the first book that inspired me to write a novel, though that goal was not accomplished until I was in my mid-fifties. I remember thinking the people in that book sounded like the ones who surrounded me in my daily life growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, and being excited that people who talked “real,” like my family and friends did, could exist in a novel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote plays as a child (and saw them produced, both at school and at the Daughters of the American Revolution), moved into a passion for poetry, and wanted, with all my heart, to write for a newspaper, like Lois Lane. I got an AA in Journalism from Florida Junior College and sold a few freelance stories to the Florida Times Union/Jacksonville Journal before getting married and settling into a “real job” at a bank. Other jobs followed, some writing-related, some not, including a stint in the Sports department at the Orlando Sentinel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I raised a wonderful daughter, finished my bachelor’s degree at Rollins College, got divorced, and then was selected as a writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac House Project of Orlando. Those three months of putting my writing first literally changed my entire life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shady Lane Press, affiliated with the Kerouac Project, published my first short story and poetry collection, <i>Red Wax Rose</i>. I met a man from the project’s board of directors in the dining room of the house at a party, and married him five years later on its front porch. We published (through our label, <i>Scribbles</i>) a collection of our love poems, called <i>Three Houses</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I went to Spalding University for an MFA in creative nonfiction and poetry, and then workshopped my first novel, <i>Sewing Holes</i>, with Connie May Fowler’s Remembering Blue retreat group. Joan Leggitt of Twisted Road Publications made my dreams come true by publishing the novel in 2015. We came full circle by holding the launch party at the Kerouac House.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My husband and I have a PR content firm called Brad Kuhn and Associates, where we keep the lights on by writing corporate pieces and making beautiful video book trailers. On the literary side, I am currently writing the screenplay for <i>Sewing Holes</i>, because I think it would make an excellent and inspiring movie, and I would also like to take it to the stage at some point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I want most for the future is for the book, movie, and play to encourage others with its message of love and resilience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I write a blog called <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT968_com_zimbra_url" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://darlynfinchkuhn.com/" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Scribbles</a></span> that serves to encourage writers and booklovers to gather together in support of one another around literary events. It has been called <i>The Heartbeat of the Central Florida Writing Lifestyle</i>. I believe it contributes to a sense of community for writers, in what can be a tremendously solitary pursuit.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">When I turned in the manuscript
for<i> </i>my first book, <i>Breathing and Walking Around,</i> I
called it creative nonfiction because that was the label Mercer University
Press had given to the literary prize for which I was submitting it. Of
course, I had to Google creative nonfiction first. I have since seen the
term “place-based creative writing” and I think that is probably a better
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; padding: 0in;">I live on a farm. The
outdoors is both classroom and church to me, the places where I take my deepest
questions. Those questions are answered when my senses become engaged in
some way – noticing a newly-bloomed wildflower or the way sunlight strikes a
tree – and from that image a metaphor materializes. The metaphor becomes
something like a decoder ring or a map key. My job as a writer, from that
point, is to tell the story, to bear witness to the experience in such a way
that it will enable the reader, the listener to bring that same focus to his or
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informed by what Southerners call “my people.” The stories they have told
and the language they use have trained me to the cadence and melody of Southern
voices, alerted me to the layered meanings of colloquialisms, made me tender to
the weightiness of words like “home” and “place”, and helped me create a voice
that sounds, to me at least, true. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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word. Every word. But it is good anguish because I love
words. I really do. I’m also really particular about cadence and
flow. I’ll read a sentence over five or six times to makes sure the
rhythm is right. That’s probably from my early training in and love for
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">WHERE I SEE MY WRITING TAKING ME IN THE FUTURE:
I want my writing to continue to take me into conversation with other
people who are curious -- curious about how the natural world acts as a
template for our emotional lives, curious about the paradox that it is only by
diving deep within ourselves that we can explore the universe, curious about
the connectedness of all things.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">HOW DO I USE MY TALENTS/TIME TO HELP OTHERS:
I have felt a deep responsibility for service since my elementary school
Girl Scout days. As an adult I've filled a resume' coaching youth sports
teams, serving on non-profit boards, and being an active member of my
church. As I have become more committed to my writing, I have tried to
find way to serve through my talent. I am currently a member of the Advisory
Board of the Georgia Southern University Department of Writing and Linguistics
and a volunteer with The Write Place, an annual celebration of authors and
books that takes place in my hometown. I am a frequent speaker at civic
clubs, schools, and leadership training events for women and girls. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">From #1 Amazon Bestselling author Ann Marie
Bryan comes this stirring<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and deeply satisfying new addition in the
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<span style="background: white;">When life takes unexpected twists and secrets
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<span style="background: white;">Larry Kanate and his wife, Rozene, would be
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<span style="background: white;">power couple. Years in the making, they have
managed to keep love alive<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Their undeniable love connection is unshakeable…
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never letting her forget<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">When Larry’s day of reckoning comes, will fear
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I grew up in Perry, Fla., a small town about 50 miles south of Tallahassee. My mother was a school teacher and my father had his own tile and carpet business. As a kid, one of my favorite tv shows was Perry Mason, and I thought Atticus Finch was a true hero. Not too surprising, then, that I eventually decided to pursue a career in the law—that and I had no real talent for anything else. I very much enjoyed my time as a lawyer, but I love my work as a judge. I’ve been doing this for nearly 30 years and it is something I look forward to every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Probably no surprise, either, that when I decided to take a stab at writing, it was a legal thriller. I credit Scott Turow with the inspiration to start. His <i>Presumed Innocent</i> was terrific, with an authenticity I found lacking in other novels. Could I do something like that? I didn’t know but I decided to give it a try. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When I am not working or writing, I like to stay active, playing tennis and basketball. I know what you’re thinking--this guy’s too old for basketball. Perhaps, but I will do it till I can’t do it anymore. Having been side-lined for a while with a broken foot, I have a glimpse of what that might look like. I’ll just have to make that adjustment. I guess more time for learning the guitar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My wife, Fran, is my best friend. We have been together since college and we now share our house with our sweet dog, Pepper. Our daughter and son-in-law live close by, which allows us to spoil our only grandchild, Ian, as much as we want.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What was once a challenge, a one-time project, has become a sustained effort to develop as a writer and to produce the best work I can. At some point I think I will try my hand at some creative non-fiction—probably after I retire from my day job.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been involved in many civic organizations over the years as officer or board member, such as YMCA and Rotary, which have offered me many opportunities for community service, e.g., Habitat for Humanity builds, back-packing for Second Harvest and Kids Voting Project. A great deal of my volunteer time is spent in educational activities with students, lawyers and judges—probably the best use of the knowledge and skills I have learned along the way. Had I not gone into the law, I probably would have been a teacher. I have been heavily involved with judicial education for many years as faculty and administration. I am currently the dean of Florida’s College of Advanced Judicial Studies. I teach as an adjunct at FSU’s law school, make presentations at CLE courses and at local schools, and preside over moot court and mock trial competitions for high schools and law schools.</span></span></div>
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