Category Archives: Writers

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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On Writing:

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. – Edwin Schlossberg

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Breaking The Rules and Playing Hooky

 

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Happy Father’s Day, Kevin

For Father’s Day I’m going to tell you a bit about Kevin. Kevin, a long time firefighter and now a fire marshal, has been interested in and working with windmills for about fourteen years now. Never one to sit around on … Continue reading

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Top Teaching Tip For Dog Lovers

Top Teaching Tip For Dog Lovers.

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I’m In Love Again

I’m in love again. And, yes, Kevin is partly responsible for this new love. Here she is:  Meet Lynnie, (or maybe Gracie) Over the last six weeks I’d been looking for a second horse to ride. Annette and Sandy were traveling … Continue reading

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Stalled

Okay, it’s time to admit I’ve been stalled in my writing. I wouldn’t call it a writer’s block, because I can manage to write for the Redwood Writers newsletter, news articles, on other people’s blogs, FaceBook, Twitter, etc. It’s my … Continue reading

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Sandy Baker’s video

I hope you enjoy Sandy Baker’s YouTube video book trailer for Mrs. Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang. Please leave Sandy a comment. In Mrs.Feeny and the Grubby Garden Gang, Sandy combines two passions: writing and gardening. Throw some annoying neighborhood kids … Continue reading

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Jack London’s Shadow

Our Tuesday morning writers critique group met on April 26th at the Grist Mill building in Glen Ellen, California. There we had our weekly meeting out on the deck of the grist mill with the office of the famous American … Continue reading

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John Smith’s Grand National – Horses’ names in poetry before the chase

John Smith’s Grand National, April 9, 2011 I challenged my good friend Arletta Dawdy to take the names of the horses entered in John Smith’s Grand National Steeplechase Blog and put them in a poem. First she laid horses names out like … Continue reading

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