
After all the stress about asking authors I admire to blurb my book, I never thought I’d be on the receiving end of that question! So when I was asked to take a look at Alice Ozma’s book about reading earlier this year, I was intrigued. To my relief, I
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Okay, so I’d love to pretend that there were constant swirling rumors about The Heroine’s Bookshelf…but dare to dream. However. I am very pleased to officially announce February the month of Heroine Love. For many, it’s a bitter month, or a swoony one, or just a normal one, but just
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Guest Post by Ellen F. Brown Next up in our series of guest posts on heroines featured in The Heroine’s Bookshelf is Ellen F. Brown, who may just qualify as the world’s nicest human being (unlike her subject). Ellen emailed me out of the blue (okay, I think I retweeted
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A minute later, she was dragging a heavy marble-topped table across the floor, its rusty castors screeching in protest. She rolled the table under the window, gathered up her skirts, climbed on it and tiptoed to reach the heavy curtain pole. It was almost out of her reach and she
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She was sitting there waiting for something or somebody and, since sitting and waiting was the only thing to do just then, she sat and waited with all her might and main. Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery The countdown continues…and today you can not only sign up to
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