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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Clean Indie Reads March Madness
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Sunday, March 15, 2015. Clean Indie Reads March Madness. I joined a writer's group called Clean Indie Reads almost a year ago, and not only have I made some wonderful new writing friends, I've read many fantastic books by these authors, and nine of the ten best books I read in 2014. Were by CIR authors. In addition to some great prizes during this week's blog hop (see the list of books HERE. March 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM. Linda...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Friday Author Spotlight: Dianne Astle
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Friday, June 19, 2015. Friday Author Spotlight: Dianne Astle. Today I'm interviewing Dianne Astle, author of the delightful middle-grade fantasy Ben the Dragonborn. Q: Your title character in Ben the Dragonborn. Is so well crafted I keep wondering if he is based on a real boy. Did you discover him gradually through writing the book, or was he fully formed before you wrote the book? Being a hero and following a quest sometim...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Friday New Book Spotlight: Mercy's Prince
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Friday, July 10, 2015. Friday New Book Spotlight: Mercy's Prince. I had just finished my first novel, which thankfully was never published. I laid it aside to work on short stories and magazines articles, but occasionally I would take out the story and try a new angle. I wanted to make it work SO BADLY, but it just wouldn't cooperate. Then in early 2011 my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. They not only revealed aspect...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: My Dad, My Hero
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Monday, November 11, 2013. My Dad, My Hero. I was born an Army brat to an officer father who was already a veteran of Korea. Me in my Daddy's boots. But one thing I took for granted was that my Dad was my hero. He was tall and handsome and looked sharp and commanding in his uniform. My parents at a military ball in the early 1960's. I didn't learn until many years later how dangerous Dad's assignment in Korea had been.
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: The 10 Best Books I've Read in 2014
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Thursday, December 11, 2014. The 10 Best Books I've Read in 2014. Here they are in order, from #10 to #1:. 10: Ben the Dragonborn. By Dianne Astle, an epic fantasy adventure about a boy who discovers who he really is by traveling to a dangerous world of water with mermaids, dragons, and all manner of creepy things. 9: Beyond the Hidden Sky. 8: Alora: The Wander-Jewel. 7 A Cast of Stones. 6 In the Enemy's Service. 3 The Gyps...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Hair and Back Again: A Hair-Razing Journey
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Monday, November 25, 2013. Hair and Back Again: A Hair-Razing Journey. Now that it's been over eight and a half years since I had nuclear-bomb strength chemo for fast-growing lymphoma, I don't mind people seeing what I looked like during that sickly time. If you know someone going through chemo, this might encourage them that their hair WILL grow back. Age 21- my preferred length. I've always had long hair. For fun, I said.
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Fun Friday (on Wednesday): A Redneck Balcony Scene
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Wednesday, November 27, 2013. Fun Friday (on Wednesday): A Redneck Balcony Scene. This was one of the assignments I gave my Shakespeare class: to rewrite a scene in a different time and place, to show the students how setting influences character. As usual, I wrote a "sample" to give them an idea, and my son and I dramatically read it (with me on a ladder as our "balcony"). A Redneck Love Story. Act 2, Scene 2. Since you ha...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: Friday Author Spotlight: H. L. Burke
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Friday, July 31, 2015. Friday Author Spotlight: H. L. Burke. Today I am interviewing a fellow dragon lover and Clean Indie Reads member, H. L. Burke a.k.a. Heidi. I've read your delightful Thaddeus Whiskers and the Dragon. And have several more of your books in my TBR pile. Which of the books you've published so far is YOUR favorite, and why? Is there any chance of a sequel with the wonderful characters in Thaddeus. I'm ask...
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word: January 2015
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Katy Huth Jones' blog: Life is a Four-Letter Word. Encouragement for the journey. Monday, January 26, 2015. The very strange journey of two books. Exactly ten years ago I started nuclear-bomb strength chemo for a rare combination of two non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, one of which was fast-growing and aggressive. The chemo turned my life inside-out and upside-down. I wrote a novel about a fourteen-year-old flute player with lymphoma who is taken to the fantasy land of Finian Jahndra. Friday, January 16, 2015.