This week, Meet the Voices features Lynn Squire. Lynn grew up on a farm in Southern Alberta where she spent her days playing a pioneer or a character from a book (and every so often succumbing to her parents’ work ethic). Her imagination would take her to faraway places and on grand adventures. But her greatest adventure began when the Lord Jesus Christ rescued her from a passage to destruction and became her captain for a voyage to a better shore. While she admits to occasionally straying from His intended course, her faith in Him infuses her writing. Lynn now resides in California with her husband and three children, and she corrals her vivid imagination into short stories, novels, and creative nonfiction. This led to the creation of her book […]
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Meet the Voices: Cathy Bryant
Meet the Voices introduces Cathy Bryant. Cathy Bryant has written for years, but seriously began to pursue her dream of writing a book in June of 2008. She joined ACFW, studied writing how-to books, and in November of 2008, participated in NaNoWriMo and produced her first completed novel. She is a finalist in the contemporary romance category of the 2009 ACFW Genesis competition. She lives in East Texas with her husband of 28 years, and is a private music instructor and church organist. What is the biggest writing challenge you’ve encountered this past year – craft, career, writing life, etc. The biggest challenge I’ve faced this past year is the monumental task of learning to self-edit. When I first started my writing journey, I truly believed the hardest part would […]
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Did you know that the Club My Book Therapy Voices is 350+ strong? Yep! And we have a great time chatting about books and writing and how to get published. But, during this lull in Blog a Book, while Rachel and I write furiously on our current WIPs, we thought it would be a great time to find out more about the MBT Voices. (Actually – one of our Voices suggested it – thank you to Lisa Jordan!) So, check on Wednesday to meet the featured Voice of the week – and then join us on Friday night (7 EST, 6 CST, 5 PST) at the Voices Forum Chat room, to chat with our voice, and each other! Meet the Voices!
Read the RestThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
I loved this book. It took a little push to get into it because the opening is “soft” meaning the authors started at the “beginning.” The story is also written in letter form, so the characters are telling the story in first person. Common tools authors use to show physical reaction like “her heart raced” are not employed. This is literary fiction. It follows no genre rules nor could careless that there’s a backlash in the publishing world against first person. Thank you chick lit. (I love first person, btw.) The story doesn’t open with an explosive or even enticing hook. It’s simply an author writing to her publisher and friends about her life in London in the early days of ’46. But then she gets a letter from a […]
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