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When twenty-five-year-old Mary learns she inherited a farm from her recently murdered grandparents--grandparents her father claimed had died before she was born--she becomes obsessed with finding out who they were and why someone wanted them dead. Along the way she accumulates a crew of ...
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marlenecarvell.com — Dear Readers: Welcome to my world as an author of young adult novels. While my books are published with young people in mind, it seems the stories I write about and the styles I use appeal to adult readers as well. Perhaps this is because I write what ... (more) Home Page
Tim O'Brien goes home
Tim O'Brien goes home
guyslitwire.blogspot.com — Tim O'Brien is one of my all time favorite writers and an absolute must-read for all lovers of literature. (Go forth right now and read the following: The Things They Carried , Going After Cacciato , If I Die In a Combat Zone and In the Lake in the Woods .)He has an essay in the current ... (more) Tim O'Brien goes home
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Pat Bertram Shares her Writing Space
Savvy Verse & Wit — ... and at other retailers.  She recently agreed to share with us her writing space, and she's included beautiful photos of her book stacks.  Please welcome Pat Bertram, photo of the author taken by D. Bertram, to the blog. ...

Ravenous Wednesday with Special Guest!
Unbound! — ... Pat Bertram is a native of Colorado and a lifelong resident. When the traditional publishers stopped publishing her favorite type of book — character and story driven novels that can’t easily be slotted into a genre — she decided to write her own. ...

Pat Bertram, author of Daughter Am I, guest post
the bookworm — I'd like to give a warm welcome to Pat Bertram, the author of Daughter Am I. Pat is stopping by my blog today to chat a bit. Scarlett O’Hara was originally called Pansy. If Margaret Mitchell had kept that name, would her epic novel ever have become so popular? I doubt it. A Pansy would be sweet and biddable with rare moments of stubbornness, but she could never be as strong-willed as Scarlett, and she would never have caught and kept the attention of such a worldly man as Rhett. Though Scarlett fits the name of the character in Gone With the Wind, it ...

Live Chat and Dead Darlings
Red Room - Where the Writers Are — ... You should be able to follow the chat without belonging to the Second Wind Publishing group, but if you wish to participate, you will need to join . I hope you do. I’d enjoy discussing writing and the writing life with you. DAI Click here to buy Daughter Am I  from Second Wind Publishing, LLC. Click here to buy Daughter Am I from Amazon. Click here to download 30% of Daughter Am I free from Smashwords. Click here to read the first chapter of Daughter Am I . ...

Author Guest Post - Pat Bertram (& a Giveaway)
A Book Blogger's Diary — ... gold that hadn't been turned in. This shocked me so much I knew I had to use it for my story. Serendipitous findings such as this are so common that author Graham Hancock found a term for it, "gifts from the library gods." I am particularly grateful for this gift - without it, there would have been no Daughter Am I . Pat Bertram author of DAUGHTER AM I, MORE DEATHS THAN ONE, and A SPARK OF HEAVENLY FIRE -- available online from Amazon, Smashwords, and Second Wind Publishing, LLC http://patbertram.com ...

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