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Done Is Better Than Fun


I love talking shop with other writers.  So I was honored when fabulous New York Times bestselling author (and awesome friend/holder of #ebpower) Eleanor Brown asked me for a one-line piece of writing advice for her next blog on The Debutante Ball. My contribution:  “done is better than fun.” Pithy? 

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A New Day


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“Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery It’s that time of the year.  The time when your impossibly put-together friends announce that they are going to accomplish a Huge

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6 Days…


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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more l.m. montgomery news…and the problem with prequels


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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who’s that girl?


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Soulful future author or freaky Victorian child? Both. This freckle-faced girl is Lucy Maud Montgomery:  Canadian, teacher, tortured optimist, dutiful preacher’s wife, “passionate friend,” and author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. We’re hanging out for the next week as I plunge into the writing process, on which

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