The following is a guest post by Donna Urbikas, author of My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. A couple of years ago I took myself on a cross-country tour of writers’ conferences where I could pitch my newly finished manuscript, My Sister’s Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia. Reception was great except that I am not famous, so who would care? Fortunately, the…
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The relationship between writing and doctoring
The following is a guest post by Raymond Barfield, author of The Book of Colors. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I graduated from medical school in 1993 and from residency in 1996. Work hour limits for medical students and residents were established in 1997 (the new rule was that students and residents can work no more than 80…
DJ Donaldson
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Louisiana Fever by DJ Donaldson
The following is a guest post by DJ Donaldson, author of Louisiana Fever, the latest installment in the Southern Suspense Series. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The Book When Kit goes to meet an anonymous stranger—who’s been sending her roses—the man drops dead at her feet before she could even get his name. Game on. Andy Broussard soon…
Alison Neuman
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Searching for Normal by Alison Neuman
When she was three years old, Alison Neuman was diagnosed with dermatomyositis, a rare muscle disease that also affects her immune system. However, she did not know the name of her debilitating illness until much later. She spent a lot of time in hospitals and at doctor’s appointments with her mother by her side. As she was growing up, the disease progressed, and Alison ended up needing a wheelchair. It didn’t…