Unhappy holidays? Strategies for coping with grief

As an author who writes about grief, specifically a loss that occurs during the holidays, I'd be remiss if I didn't take a moment to talk about how to cope with the pain of loss...

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Holiday cookies (and challenging gender roles)

To mark the release of her new YA contemporary novel CHASTE, Angela Felsted invited bloggers to share a favorite holiday cookie recipe. What does this have to do with her book?...

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Twisted

What twisted thing did I do to earn money for college? What author helped me meet the love of my life? What's my odd writing quirk? Discover the answers to all these questions...

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Three dozen day 12/12/12

I'm calling today "three dozen day," in honor of the date 12/12/12. It will be a long while until we have another symmetrical date like today's . We'll of course have 1/3/13...

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New release!

I'm excited to announce the release of The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2012 anthology! My fiction vignette, New Hues, was selected to appear in this wonderful volume,...

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Getting real about faith and doubt

"Writing religion is risky. Beliefs and values are so core to our identities, our vision of the good life, and these beliefs often come into conflict. And yet teens need to see...

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What every Whovian needs this season

The holiday season is upon us, and that means it's time to... crack out the paper, scissors, exacto knife and hole punch to craft some out-of-this-world SNOWFLAKES. To get...

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"I've got a history..."

My great-grandpa trained horses for Ringling Bros. Yesterday, my nephew asked for help gathering enough family history to write a ten-page college paper. I quickly piped up...

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Great tool for improving show/tell balance

Click to add me to Goodreads! Have you been told there's a little too much telling in your novel? Want to remedy it? Then this is the book for you! In Show and Tell in a...

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The perfection myth

Maybe you're just coming off the high of "winning" NaNo and realize your first draft is, alas, full of flaws. Maybe you've drawn up a holiday gift-buying list and realize there's...

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