The following is a guest post by Dane Cobain, author of No Rest For the Wicked. A signed book is a special thing – it’s imbued with the spirit of its author, and it can remind you of where you were and what you were doing when you first got hold of it. At other times, you pick up a signed book second hand, and you’re left to wonder how it…
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A Book Related Topic (Kind Of)
The following is a guest post by Theodore Ficklestein, author of I Killed the Man Who Wrote this Book. I realize that most if not all of you have no idea who I am, so although I am supposed to be using this post for book related topic, I will use this platform to inform you of my recent writing activity. I guess this is kind of considered a book related…
Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow’s House
A few months ago, I was on vacation in Portland, Maine, and decided to visit Henry Wadsworth-Longfellow’s childhood home where he lived until he was 14 years old. Built in 1785 by the poet’s grandfather, Peleg Wadsworth, it is a neoclassical-style building and the oldest standing structure on the Portland peninsula. Anne Longfellow Pierce, the poet’s younger sister lived in the house until her death in 1901, and left it…
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Writer’s Block Over the Years
The following is a guest post by Peggy Hanson, author of the Elizabeth Darcy series that includes Deadline Istanbul and Deadline Yemen. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com Every writer has it. Those moments of looking at a blank page and seeing nothing. “No brain-to-page network available.” For years after I started writing fiction, I used the same…
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Natural Born Writer
The following is a guest post by K.A. Shaw, author of The Bizarre Baby Name Book. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com Background I am not qualified to be your author, I just love to talk I’ve been talking since I was born. My mom jokes that even before I could speak proper English, I would talk…
George Schnaider
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Poems from Life’s Precipice
The following is a guest post by George Schnaider, author of Impressions and Expressions. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. In 1984, I was struck by a car while I was walking along the shoulder of a road. I was nearly killed. I spent three weeks in a coma, four weeks connected to a life support machine, seven…
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How I Came to Write
The following is a guest post by Meghan Hill, author of Making Room For You: A Practical Guide to Organizing You Home. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. When I was little, I wanted to be a visual artist. My paternal Grandmother, an oil painter, encouraged this by giving me sketchbooks, colored pencils, watercolors and paints for my…
Maya Angelou
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RIP Maya Angelou
It was with sadness that I learnt the writer and poet Maya Angelou passed away a few days ago. Born Marguerite Ann Johnson, this incredible woman had an extraordinary life. It didn’t start well though… At the age of 7, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. When she told her family, the man was convicted of the crime, and promptly murdered, most likely by Maya’s uncles. The trauma of this tragedy caused her to be mute for…
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The 2013 Governor General’s Literary Awards
Yesterday, the 14 winners of the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced. Eleanor Catton won the best English fiction for The Luminaries. She also won the 2013 Man Booker Prize earlier this year. So now I have no choice but to read her book! 🙂 The story seems very interesting though, so I’m sure I will enjoy The Luminaries. I will post a review later on. Here are all…