Archive for December 2011
CHUSday Giveaway from Barnes and Noble
Welcome to the final month of CHUSday. To end with a bang this month, I’m giving away a $50 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble bookstores instead of a silly kitchen gadget. That way you can indulge your cookbook fantasies or take the CHU pledge and use the ones you have and buy something yummy to…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: No Unsacred Places
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Today’s poem by Wendell Berry comes just as our December holidays begin. How To Be a Poet is as much about a contemplative life of appreciation and connection as it is about poetry. While…
Read MoreBook Groups and Reader Questions: Whose Life Do We Want to Discuss?
Several weeks ago my editor made a simple, logical request. Please come up with reader discussion questions for the back of my next novel, One Mountain Away, which debuts in August. One Mountain Away is the first book in a new series, Goddesses Anonymous, and centers around issues readers might want to talk about in…
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