G.G. Vandagriff, Author
29
Oct
By D.S. White, Author of Age is Just a Number: Adventures in Online Dating. Good morning, I’m delighted to have the opportunity to pontificate . . . ahem . . . talk about abundance today here at Embracing Abundance. Many thanks go out to G.G. Vandagriff, the hostess, who so graciously invited me to share here today. I hope [...]
27
Oct
Author Melanie Marks You have a new YA novel coming out—soon? Yes! Very soon! It should be out now—but it will definitely be available in e-book form in a day or two …. or maybe even later today. The print version will follow, but won’t be available until next month. I love this book! [...]
25
Oct
That’s a terrible question to ask an author, you know. Books are a little bit like children. But, I was recently asked to to write a blog post on the subject. Eventually, I had to pick the book I “grew up with.” From this perspective, writing about the forty year process of writing The Last [...]
25
Oct
by G.G. Vandagriff My favorite place to write, when possible, is Robiglio’s Pastacceria at the corner of Via Poliziana and Via Lavagnini in Florence. It is one of the two oldest pastry cafes in Florence. This is where my good samaritan took me after he picked me up from a nasty fall on Via Poliziana [...]
23
Oct
This is a wonderful blog that I happened on. I asked KHAIRU DHANANI to give me a blogpost for today, but she is apparently otherwise engaged, so I nabbed this one off her blog. It is a fascinating blog by a very interesting woman. www.khairusworld.blogspot.com. Is there a woman alive who doesn’t suffer from stress? If there [...]
20
Oct
1. What caused you to want to write this children’s book? About seven years ago, my husband and I were struggling financially. We were out of work. This was our second employment layoff within a couple of years. At age 40, I had post-partum depression with my youngest child, and was even missing [...]
18
Oct
My Friend Sandra One day when I was experiencing a particularly painful flashback due to an episode of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, the present had cracked open and flooded me with pain almost past bearing. I was alone in the house. My husband was in Florida, my youngest son in Missouri. My other two children [...]
14
Oct
Title: Jacob T. Marley: The Story of the Ghost who visited Marley Author: R. William Bennett Publisher: Deseret Book Genre: fiction Year Published: 2011 Number of Pages: 184 Binding: softcover ISBN10: N/A ISBN13: 978-1-59038-351-3 Price: $17.99Reviewed by Tim Ballard for the Association for Mormon Letters “Marley was dead, to begin with.” So begins Charles Dickens’ [...]
13
Oct
Interview with Stephen Schochet (Pronounced Show-het) Author Stephen Schochet is a professional tour guide in Hollywood who years ago began collecting little-known, humorous anecdotes to tell to his customers. His new book Hollywood Stories: Short, Entertaining Anecdotes About the Stars and Legends of the Movies! contains a timeless treasure trove of colorful vignettes featuring an amazing [...]
12
Oct
Our Trigger for The Week Each of us is is all the sums he has not counted; subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas. –Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
