
There were so many ways of seeing things and so many ways of saying them. – Laura Ingalls Wilder, On the Shores of Silver Lake Left to right: Caroline Celestia “Carrie” Ingalls, Mary Ingalls, Laura Ingalls, late 1870s
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I’m deep in the thick of things, and writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf is simultaneously easier and more challenging than I thought it would be. I feel kind of schizophrenic…by day, I’m instructing people on how best to use Twitter to promote their businesses and doing marketing plans. But a huge
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Well, some writers must have an ivory tower but I need trouble. – Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Today opened with news that L.M. Montgomery’s The Blythes are Quoted will finally be published, extremely posthumously, in October. Anyone who read Rilla of Ingleside and got a glimpse of the Blythes’ darker and more tragic side will probably relish the book, which is being teased as actually addressing adult
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When I read the word “perseverance,” it’s in a self-conscious Jane Eyre type of voice, but that tongue-in-cheek delivery doesn’t really do justice to the concept. All of the plucky heroines and authors of The Heroine’s Bookshelf have one thing in common: they’re not easily swayed by fate’s slings, arrows,
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