Keeping Our Communities From Burning
carriejonesbooks This blog speaks about a violent event in my community where a kid was badly hurt. A few years ago, I was a newspaper editor, working out at the local…
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The World Needs More Lew Barnards
My dad died in 2013. It was his birthday yesterday. How It Went It is Thursday and an oncologist whose last name is Snow has just told my father that…
Thrill Me, Baby. Thrill Me. Let’s Talk About Story Tension.
My first three books are hardly suspenseful in that Marvel movie way. There are no car chases. There are no end-of-the-world scenarios. They’re stories about identity and love with a…
Random Plea For You To Vote For Local People, Too.
Seriously. I know that we all care so much about the national election (Well, except for those of us who have thrown up our hands and started glutting ourselves on…
TIPS ON SURVIVING BANNED BOOKS WEEK
I posted this back in 2006 when maybe fifteen people were reading my blog and I knew them all in person, I think. But I thought it might be good…