Tag: fiction
member name: Gretchen Lee Bourquin
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November 10, 2008 10:42 PM EST --
I recently ordered the updated version of my book, No Sensible People with the new cover in Lulu's new "publisher's grade" paper -- which is a little cheaper. Lulu won't do the ISBN . . .
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June 19, 2008 11:44 PM EDT --
Tact wasn't her strong suit, but it didn't much matter these days. She did what she wanted and no one stood in her way. If they tried to stop her she threw "it" in their faces. "It" . . .
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July 11, 2008 10:15 AM EDT --
My content on Gather, for the most part falls into one of the following categories:
Poetry
Short Stories
Novel Excerpts
Reviews
Bloggy/Op-ed Stuff
Questions I really want answers . . .
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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 18, 2007 07:31 AM EDT --
They walked past my apartment building for the first time three months ago. The man atop them had polished them "see your reflection" shiny. Good men's shoes. Only they were red. Bright maraschino . . .
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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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June 27, 2008 08:46 AM EDT --
Nearly a year ago I tested the waters with Lulu.com and put together a collection of poetry called The Long and Short of It and published on Lulu, where it's available in print for about $7 and . . .
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July 25, 2008 12:17 AM EDT --
The following is a fictitious interview conducted by a fictious journalist Trisha DuTell. Trisha aims to interview as many of the characters in No Sensible People as she can get to talk. Maybe I . . .
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October 26, 2008 04:03 PM EDT --
I just ran across a site called Duotropes Digest . It is a database for writers' markets in short fiction, poetry, and novels. You can run varying searches depending on your needs.
Just thought . . .
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November 16, 2008 11:55 AM EST --
My road to the self publishing of my novel, No Sensible People , has been a winding one, and right now there are varying editions available depending on your preference.
First Edition - Print- . . .
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July 26, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
this blog can also be found on www.gretchenleebourquin.com/blog Come visit!
I don't want to get too specific blogging about my day job lest to Corporate Giants find reason to use . . .
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August 03, 2008 01:11 PM EDT --
The return of the infamous journalist Trisha DuTell. The following is a fictitious interview conducted by a fictious journalist Trisha DuTell. Trisha aims to interview as many of the characters in . . .
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August 09, 2008 01:55 PM EDT --
The following is a fictitious interview conducted by a fictious journalist Trisha DuTell. In her final interview of a three part series Trisha talks to Stuart Cartwright, Lucy's best friend . . .
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December 31, 2006 10:37 PM EST --
When my sister Lucy and I were little girls, we promised each other we would never let a man enslave us the way our Daddy had enslaved our Mama. I also promised Lucy I would always take care of . . .
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March 29, 2007 06:13 AM EDT --
I've always loved that story game where someone starts a story, stops and the next person takes it over passes it on and so forth. It is a great way to release creativity. There will be a related group, . . .
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March 29, 2007 06:11 AM EDT --
The used bookstore on 5th Street was not the most popular place, at first. It was located olding across the street from the Barnes and Noble, it smelled funny, due to the residency of . . .
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August 23, 2008 12:18 PM EDT --
this blog and archives can be found at www.gretchenleebourquin.com/blog
This week I finished a book by Paulo Coelho called Veronika Decides to Die . In the book Veronika is not exactly in despair . . .
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July 03, 2008 12:45 PM EDT --
Chapter One
In the voice of Mary Jeanette (Jennie) Halifax
Oct 01, 1990 - October 5, 1990
Leifton, MN
Daddy died in one of those freak tractor accidents you think only happens in the movies. . . .
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January 12, 2007 10:51 AM EST --
Cora had very little to do as Kylion's nursemaid. Jaielle monopolized the boy's time and neither Cora not Aertis was able to get more than a glance at him. She maintained that that . . .
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January 15, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
Kylion cried as he watched his mother loaded onto the carriage and taken away. He watched intently as it turned around the corner, and just as suddenly, as the carriage disappeared Kylion . . .
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