Tag: books
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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May 03, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
The jury seems conflicted on this. I put my heart and soul into my novel, carried my characters in the pockets of my brain for years. As my manuscript sits in a file, I miss them. I wrote the novel online-- . . .
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March 04, 2009 08:15 AM EST --
Yes, I know. It sounds too good to be true. But if you live in the continental US, you can receive, via mail, a copy of No Sensible People. Once you write a short review on Gather -- and if you're . . .
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November 20, 2008 07:46 AM EST --
I'm posting this to invite everyone who has a book (or more) out there a place to post their title and their website. Here's mine:
The Long and Short of It - (poetry) 1st edition $6.97 print; . . .
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May 02, 2009 12:26 PM EDT --
Early last week as I was working on my new book, Almighty Whispers in Our Souls , the prequel to No Sensible People , I started to get one of those emotional kicks in the stomach from a character I . . .
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February 21, 2009 12:46 PM EST --
Yes, I have been elusive in my blogging for a while now, as I've been trying to get a rhythm going with a little more "practical" writing, on eHow and now Associated Content . . .
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April 18, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
This coming Monday, I will be heading to Marshall, MN to Southwest Minnesota State University to celebrate the life of one of my writing mentors, Bill Holm who passed away in February. I have spent more . . .
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December 20, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
Have you ever watched a baby wriggling on a blanket on the floor? Maybe there is a toy a few feet away. Maybe it is just the end of the blanket. But whatever it is, they do not see the limitations. Few . . .
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March 03, 2009 08:12 PM EST --
I want to send my book on tour and I need your help. I don't currently have the time or resources to go with my book on tour, so my "baby" will be heading out on it's own via . . .
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February 25, 2008 06:34 AM EST --
Last week, after thinking long and hard a pressed a button on my keyboard that withdrew me from the Bachelor's degree business program I was enrolled in. I had been behind in my class, and was really . . .
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August 23, 2008 09:20 PM EDT --
I didn't think I would do it, but I made another Squidoo Lens (webpage)besides The Literary (Ad)Ventures of Gretchen Lee Bourquin . The focus of the new lens is simple. It's called Minnesota . . .
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December 02, 2008 06:47 AM EST --
Yesterday I discovered a great little website that offers classics audio and ebooks for free. I downloaded A Christmas Carol, which I haven't read in years, and I will probably download more and put . . .
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March 30, 2007 05:22 PM EDT --
I have always loved writer workshops. I was a Creative Major in college and still took about twice the required writing workshops that I needed for my major. I have been in private writing groups, and . . .
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March 29, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
Go back? Cora still didn't know if she could. Jaielle was her sister? She was kin to Kylion? Of course, it was only logical. Jaielle's mother had fallen ill soon after Jaielle was born. And Cora's . . .
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June 03, 2007 10:00 PM EDT --
If you think you've read a book like this before, you probably have. Me & Emma is set in rural North Carolina and narrated by an abused and neglected eight year old girl named Carrie. The back . . .
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December 12, 2006 08:40 AM EST --
Yesterday morning I wrote three paragraphs worth of the sappiest drivel ever to populate a word processing program. I'm surprised my laptop didn't explode. Really. It was that bad. But the . . .
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January 10, 2007 05:49 AM EST --
So today is my last day at work until after MLK day. I took thursday and friday off to get caught up and possibly ahead a little in the class I'm taking. It can be tricky, because I'm supposed . . .
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April 01, 2007 12:11 PM EDT --
She wraps herself inside her flannel tomb
to ward off chills that rival winter's breath.
She wonders how she'll dare to grant herself
a chance to move outside her inner shell,
and pull herself . . .
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August 14, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
When I first heard of Rhetta Akamatsu’s new book T'aint Nobody’s Business If I Do: Women Blues Singers Old and New I was intrigued. The book chronicles the lives and struggles of the great female . . .
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August 24, 2008 03:48 PM EDT --
Did you write a book? Have a longer story that isn't getting the reads you want? Give us the first paragraph and a link. Can You hook us into reading more?
This is inspired by Aaron LaZaar's . . .
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December 16, 2008 02:42 PM EST --
I just noticed that the second edition of No Sensible People (the one with the cover designed by my son, that's my icon right now) is available on Amazon.com, under ISBN 978-0557023189. It's . . .
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