Category Archives: Kids’ stories

Review of The Journey to Andersweldt

I applaud my writer friend Charles Markee for permission to re-post his excellent book review about The Journey to Andersweldt by J.L. Jusaitis. This is a unique mystery wrapped in a travel package for middle grades students set in Saltzburg, … Continue reading

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Patsy and the Permanents

Here’s a guest post from our good friend Phillis Ballew in Oklahoma. I asked her a while ago to tell me about her photo (above). Knowing she has stick-straight hair, like me, I wondered about the permanents. Below is Phillis’s explanation: Patsy was … Continue reading

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Thank you, Arletta

Check out Arletta’s blog: http://arlettawrites.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/from-the-land-of-sky-blue-pink/#comment-369 I’m glad she liked my reading of part of Nugget’s story at the Redwood Writers meeting 11/13/11. He’s real, but of course his story will be fiction as I write it for NaNoWriMo this year. … Continue reading

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Ghosts at Jack London Park

Ghostly looking tree? This tree and more will be no than ghosts from our memories if the Jack London State Historic Park in Glen Ellen is closed next July. Please see my blog titled Spirit of Jack London to fade away? … Continue reading

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Spirit of Jack London to fade away?

Will the spirit or ghost of author Jack London fade from our sight next year? Whether or not you believe in such things, isn’t the question. It is true that Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen is on the list of California … Continue reading

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Promo Ideas for Your Book

Here are some ideas from Robert Digitale about promoting your book. Thanks for sharing these thoughts, Robert, with the Redwood Writers members. Fellow Writers, Snowfall Press, a custom printer for micro publishers, has posted on its Facebook site a guest … Continue reading

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Go NaNoWriMo!

Here’s a great blog post from Erica Johnson regarding November as National Novel Writers Month. Check it out! http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/prepare-for-national-novel-writing-month-with-the-post-a-day-challenge/#respond

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How Do You Promote Your Book?

I’ve heard of a few interesting ways authors here in Northern California are promoting their books. For example Robert Digitale made arrangements with our “local” bookstores where he donates $1 from each sale of his first book in The Horse Stalker series to … Continue reading

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Robert Digitale’s Horse Stalker Series

If you find fantasy books the next best thing to horses, this series may gallop away with your imagination as you follow the adventures of Rog, the Horse Stalker. Track Rog as he seeks the great spotted stallion in The Root of Glory, … Continue reading

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On Selling Your Books

Thank you, Sandy Baker, for permission to reprint your article here as a “Guest Blog.” You’re a FANTASTIC writing partner! Robin To Consign or Not to Consign . . . By Sandy Baker http://www.sandybakerwriter.com/Home.html ©Sandy Baker 2011 You’ve finally published … Continue reading

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