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Sometimes you read a book that doesn’t “fit in” with the rest of what you read. So, um, these are the books I read that didn’t “fit in” someplace else. Yeah. ***
Posted byJonAugust 10, 2019August 10, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:Aaron Starmer, Ada Lace, Ada Lace on the Case, Adam Glendon Sidwell, After the Dust Settled, Alison McGhee, Book reviews, books, Chris van Allsburg, Christopher Denise, Chuck Wendig, Dan Abnett, David Wiesner, Delilah S. Dawson, Dragon Masters, Elias Carr, Emily Calandrelli, Fight the Wind, Firefly Hollow, Free Fall, Global Warning, Hear the Wolves, Just a Dream, Kevin Hearne, Kill the Farm Boy, Lydia Eberhardt, Lyn Worthen, Lynne Matson, Miriam Black, Nil, pellet reviews, reading, Renee Kurilla, Ruth A.D., Sara Pennypacker, Stealing the Sword, Stuart's Cape, Tamson Weston, The Buttersmith's Gold, The Cormorant, The Riverman, The Three Pigs, Time Jumpers, Tracey West, Triumff, Victoria Scott, Wendy Mass, wings of changeLeave a comment on A Year of Books 2019: …And the Rest!
So I didn’t write a single word on vacation. I’d like a writing vacation, where the goal is to just… write. But for the last two weeks I have written nada. It was not a useless vacation in the least. I got to visit my wife’s great-grandfather on his hundredth birthday. I got to visitContinue reading “Not a Writing Vacation”
Posted byJonJuly 7, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:Eric Shanower, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Rare Books, reading, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Sharon A. Skinner, wings of change, WritingLeave a comment on Not a Writing Vacation
The Cure for the Rejection Blues
“That story was so good!” The kid has no idea what he’s saying. He has no idea how much it means to me. He’s one of my son’s classmates. He’s helping out at the school’s end-of-year carnival, and we’re chatting as I wait for my daughter to attempt to drop a teacher into the dunktank.Continue reading “The Cure for the Rejection Blues”
Posted byJonMay 18, 2019May 18, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:rejection, wings of change, WritingLeave a comment on The Cure for the Rejection Blues
I am so not the expert here.
Did you see? I got interviewed! It was a lot of fun, and Anne is a wonderful person. You really should check out her blog; I learn a lot from her write-ups about World War Two and a bunch of cultural stuff that happened around it. But here’s the funny thing: I’m being interviewed likeContinue reading “I am so not the expert here.”
Posted byJonMarch 16, 2019March 16, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:Anne Clare, Camden Park Press, Confidence, Lyn Worthen, publishing, wings of change, WritingLeave a comment on I am so not the expert here.
EEEEEEEEEE, or Published and Rejected
So this past Thursday a certain book was released that I happen to have a story in. I’m very proud of this story. This coming June, another book will be printed that has one of my stories in it. This past Tuesday I got another rejection. Ah, living the dream! I’ve been reading the otherContinue reading “EEEEEEEEEE, or Published and Rejected”
Posted byJonMarch 2, 2019February 27, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags:books, publishing, rejection, wings of change, Writing2 Comments on EEEEEEEEEE, or Published and Rejected