Meet the Voices presents Sally Hanan. Sally is originally from Wicklow, Ireland, but managed to permanently escape the cold, wet weather with her family in 1995. The true story about being allowed into the US is that her husband got lucky with the lottery visa, but she tells people that America just couldn’t bear to be without her wit and charm. She now lives in Texas, where she is known for chumming up to people who own boats and cook rib-eye steak on the barbecue. Sally owns her own freelancing editing business and she also serves as an inner-healing ministry leader, youth pastor, lay counselor, and teacher in her home church. What is the biggest writing challenge you’ve encountered this past year–craft, career, writing life, etc? It’s extremly difficult to […]
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Attending Conferences
I attended my first writer’s conference in ’97. Since I’d traveled a lot in my corporate career, arriving alone at Wheaton College didn’t overwhelm me. I got along with my roommate and soon made friends with the newly contracted DiAnn Mills. I attended Davis Bunn’s continuing sesson and soaked up every thing he taught us. But when I went to the first ACFW conference in 2002, I hated it. Rather, I hated myself in the midst of it. I felt like a goof, out of place, like I wanted to follow the “popular kids.” Oddly enough, I wasn’t without connection. I was on the conference committee. I was friends with the president. Conferences stir a lot of emotions. Many of them negative. It’s like high school all over again only […]
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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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