Christa Allan

Camy Tang is my guest blogger today. her second book, Only Uni, is now available. I “met” Camy online several years ago, and I had the opportunity to face-to-face meet her at the recent American Christian Fiction Writers Conference.  She’s a petite dynamo whose faith and passion for helping people shine. Camy thought it might be [...]

I don’t remember when, why, or how I stumbled upon teacher and poet Taylor Mali. I’m just glad I did. (This does have a smidgen of language generally not heard on my blog. But, as Flannery O’ Connor tells us, it’s all about the total effect.)Enjoy.Taylor Mali - Def Poetry[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpog1_NFd2Q]

THE NEXT LEVEL
 by David Gregory
a parable about finding your place in life

David is  the coauthor of two nonfiction books, Dinner with a Perfect Stranger and A Day with a Perfect Stranger. He is also a  frequent conference speaker. After a ten-year business career, he returned to school to study religion and communications, earning two master’s [...]

A  21-hat salute to BooMama for this………hold on to your remotes because you’re just not going to believe this website!!!!!!
Hulu offers FREE…..FREE……YES, I TYPED FREE……movies and television shows on your ‘puter! And not from a lifetime ago.
No, baby, I mean current, like NOW stuff.
Here’s part of the blurb from their site:”We hope to provide you [...]

Here’s all I’m going to say about Client 9, aka Gov. Eliot Spitzer: dude, the night before Valentine’s Day you pay a woman $4,300 for three hours?  So, I wonder, what did you bring home for MRS. Spitzer  on Valentine’s Day?
 I don’t claim to be too politically-savvy, but I’m just wondering why women in politics manage [...]

How many words can you make from the word WEDNESDAY? 
1. Words must be at least three letters. 
2. No plurals 
3. No proper nouns(HINT: at least 205!)  

The Lanyard by Billy Collins

The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the pale blue walls of this room,
bouncing from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.

No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one more [...]

NO FOOLING!
 
Wendy Lawton, Artist and Author, Celebrates Release of Her Seventh Novel With a Fabulous April Fool’s Day Contest 
 

(THE WOODLANDS, TX) What do porcelain, Pocahontas, and prizes have in common? Wendy Lawton, author, sculptor and literary agent is on a mission to find the next Daughter of the Faith for her highly successful middle grade series. In celebration of the [...]

Based on my S-p-a-m file:
I can look younger while I’m processing claims at home and working on a college degree online funded by a grant I won’t have to repay.
Apparently there are ocean view estate lots in Costa Rica I need to visit, but there’s a business proposal in Honk Kong I may need to [...]

Hannah and Emma 
 
 

I’m here today! Writer. . .Interrupted

Try this one: CodeWord

Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Regal Books
        Released: 02/01/2008         ISBN-10: 0830745017   
ISBN-13: 978-0830745012
Retail: $12.99 

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Seeing through the Lies: Unmasking the Myths Women Believe

We have been seduced by half-truths and whole lies since time began. Remember the garden? In Seeing Through the Lies, author and speaker Vonda Skelton humorously addresses the disappointments women experience as they search [...]

Sometimes it seems like the creatures in my head are unraveling stories, like Penelope who stitched by day and unwove by night to ward off obnoxious suitors anxious for Odysseus’ treasures–both in his bank and in his bed.
But the threads fray when I’m frantic to shove them all through the eye of the needle of [...]

Mary DeMuth provided the following information for my blog post today. And scroll down to yesterday’s post for information about THE RED ROOM and Backspace.
 If you’re an aspiring writer and want to get a writer’s conference in your inbox, consider joining The Writer View. It’s free. It’s amazing. And,seriously, you’ll learn everything you’d learn at [...]

An incredible site for writers by writers and about writers that you MUST visit or risk brain atrophy: THE RED ROOM/Where the Writers Are.   
Karen Dionne at Backspace mentioned it in their latest newsletter. And if you’ve not discovered Backspace, that’s another great place for writers.

With thanks to Fritinancy who gave a hats off to Mike Pope for this one. Go HERE to make your own and find the link to the gallery of pre-mades.

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