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Original Writing Exercises | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Have any prompts or suggestions for the new Writing Challenge feature? Contact me and I'll credit you. Sometimes writers need a little encouragement to get going. I’ve developed a feature called Writing Challenges to offer prompts, thought-provoking questions and other exercises for writers. While some are geared to get you freewriting, many are about how to look at your work-in-progress from a slightly different perspective. May 11, 2012 at 9:24 pm. Thank ...

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From the Publisher’s Desk : A Matter of Taste | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Sometimes It’s Best to Ask for Help. Counting Down to Landfall →. From the Publisher’s Desk : A Matter of Taste. April 21, 2015. Liz Prato, editor of. The Night, and the Rain, and the River. Our short story collection that came out last May, said something about if only the writers knew how much we want them to succeed. It’s so true! Of the Real World. I’m sitting in the airport right now, flying to our first sales conference since we signed with Lega...

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Counting Down to Landfall | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. From the Publisher’s Desk : A Matter of Taste. It’s Nearly Midnight… →. Counting Down to Landfall. July 12, 2015. Is being released to booksellers right this very moment! After a year of daily work on the editing, design, distribution, and marketing of this stunning mother-daughter novel set during Hurricane Katrina, we’re finally counting down to the Aug. 11 availability date. We have phenomenal blurbs. With a focus on the South and the Mid-Atlantic, so if...

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Orycon 2011 recap « Suzzanne Myers

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Laquo; Seven Dogs – Excerpt. Seven Dogs Book Trailer. November 15th, 2011. I attended Orycon this year with a really cool chick, Amy Bilhorn Thomas. She was pretty much my partner in crime as we navigated the good and bad panels and it was really great spending time just talking to someone at length about all the in’s and out’s of the writing craft. I know I came away with a lot of good advice! She did a great reading of Kat Howard’s “Choose Your Own Adventure,”. Tags: Amy Bilhorn Thomas. Being there wit...

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Author Interviews | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Seven Questions spotlights writers, artists and other creative professionals. It’s part of building community around this blog. But it’s also a way to talk about writing from many different viewpoints and to address the question of why we, as human beings, are driven to create. The latest interview features Lisa Borders. Novelist and author of. The Editor’s Lexicon. A slim, helpful reference work for writers; Liz Prato. No Father Can Save Her. Middle-grade ...

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Line of the Week | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Studying Point of View Through Revising Chapter 2. Kreativ Blogger Award →. Line of the Week. March 22, 2012. We had so much fun with our first line of the week post. That I’ve decided to host another one. Here’s a paragraph from my historical novel from the point of view of the protagonist’s mother, who is pregnant with her third child:. Shortlink: http:/ wp.me/p1bhaB-C7. Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. View all posts by Laura Stanfill →. Line of the week.

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Brave on the Page | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Brave on the Page. A Powell’s Books Small Press Bestseller. Paperback, 199 pages, $14. Edited by Laura Stanfill. Available online at Powell’s Books,. And around the world at 80 Espresso Book Machines. Available in Portland, Oregon, at Annie Bloom’s Books, Powell’s Hawthorne and Powell’s City of Books. Forest Avenue Press released its first title, a homegrown collection of essays and interviews about the writer’s life, in October 2012. Brave on the Page.

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Author Interview: Faith Elizabeth Hough on Literary Historical Fiction, Avoiding the Info Dump and the Art of the Outline | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. Writing Challenge #7: Small Changes, Big Rewards. Reading Fiction While Writing It →. Author Interview: Faith Elizabeth Hough on Literary Historical Fiction, Avoiding the Info Dump and the Art of the Outline. July 18, 2011. It’s such a treat to interview Faith Elizabeth Hough. Today as part of the Seven Questions series. She writes literary historical fiction for children and young adults. Faith and her super writing partner husband Mark. THE WITHERING VINE...

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Sometimes It’s Best to Ask for Help | Laura Stanfill

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Writing. Reading. Community. Brave on the Page. From the Publisher’s Desk : A Matter of Taste →. Sometimes It’s Best to Ask for Help. February 17, 2015. I’ve been stuck on my knitting recently. Too busy with other things, not making it a priority, and not having enough time to go to knitting group all contributed to my dropping that favorite (only? So then I stopped knitting. Again. 8220;Surely you have needles! 8221; they said. 8220;Surely you have stash yarn! 8221; they said. Probably I would have star...