BREAKING NEWS: NEW RELEASE DATES FOR WHERE IS PAPA'S SHINING STAR (APRIL 2) AND FINDING PAPA'S SHINING STAR (APRIL 16)
You don't have to be paid to be a writer. You don't even have to work full-time at writing to be a writer. You don't even have to be published to be a writer--no matter what anyone else thinks. You just have to write and love it and watch the words pour out of your veins.
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I've been writing forever, first on a big Chief tablet, then on my father's ancient Underwood typewriter. I've been through a portable typewriter, two electrics, a word processor, and several computers. I wrote stories and poems to amuse myself and to express feelings that had no other outlet. I never considered myself a real writer until I read Margo's words. They gave me courage, and now I'm actually published. But published or not, I write for the love of writing and that's the most important reason of all.
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Two Vintage Rose novels, Where Is Papa's Shining Star? and its sequel, Finding Papa's Shining Star will be released June 18 and June 25 by The Wild Rose Press. For covers, blurbs, excerpts, and trailers, see, "Books".
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Publications
"Not to Mention the Python", the story of my first year of teaching in the middle of Africa, is included in this Adams Media anthology. (Available in bookstores and online at Amazon.com)
"A Very Kate Christmas" won the Editor's Choice Award and publication in 'Tis the Season, an anthology of holiday stories. (Available online at Amazon.com)
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"The Kate Chronicles" has been published monthly this year at A Long Story Short. (See "The Way It Was") Check back here to follow the launch of The Kate Chronicles: Volume 1 in print in 2010.
"No One Ever Died of a Broken Heart" appeared in the 2008 fall issue of Literary Magic. (See Archives)
"Looking Over the Edge: appeared in The Storyteller, a print quarterly, in the April-May-June 2009 issue.
"So Long Ago and Far Away" won honorable mention in The Writer's Journal February 2009 Write-to-Win Contest.
My non-fiction article on china dolls appears in the January 2010 issue of History Magazine.
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