"The forgotten founding mothers of the Fairy Tale and the stories that they spun". This pretty book sets out to tell us the personal stories and some of the output of Les Conteuses, a group of literary women in the French Upper Classes, who wrote in the era from 1690 to 1709, and who wrote …
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After a poorly researched article lands her in the public eye for the wrong reasons, Sal is without a job and left facing her unhappy marriage and dying career. When she reads an article about a writer she met briefly years before, she recognizes their interaction in his posthumously printed manuscript excerpt. She decides to …
So, this is a different post than my usual reviews, because this time I'm sharing my own work! I was asked by Lee Fearnside to write a piece for her anthology Death Never Dies. This is a follow up to Chimera Projects O Relentless Death, and was edited by Lee, and has her beautiful lino …
Continue reading My Writing: Death Never Dies Anthology (Illustrated/Edited by Lee Fearnside).
I get a lot of emails from various writers and publishers asking me to talk about their book on my blog, and I noticed an interesting trend in my inbox recently. I've had quite a few requests from self published female authors who've written books about growing up in abusive homes or about the stories …
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I felt really awkward when I started my Gratitude Journal. They're kind of a big thing right now. You can use them in different ways, but they work on the essential idea that grateful people are happier, live longer, have less health problems, all that kind of thing. They're basically great for your mental health …
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When I was a kid, my Mum made a lot of our clothes. I know that when she was growing up, she sometimes made her own clothes, too. She made her own wedding dress. My grandmother knew her way around a sewing machine too. Her clothes were pretty incredible actually. My point is this: …
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When I was really small, my family lived in Victoria, my parents and me, and my older brother. My grandparents lived in Sydney, and because we lived so far away, they didn't see us much at that age. My grandmother, being the creative person that she was, used to write stories for my brother and …
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This post first appeared on TinyLetter.com, which is a service which I use to send more personal letter-like mailings to my readers. It's a look into the more personal side of my life, so you have to be signed up to read them. All you need is an email address to get on this mailing …
Have you signed up to my Tiny Letters yet? TinyLetter.com allows me to send out more personal emailed letters to you, my readers, about my life, my thoughts, ...anything. If you like my blog, but would like something more internal and personal, this is the sign up for you. Go to: https://tinyletter.com/CravenWild and enter your email. I …
In 20's and 30's Barcelona, David Martin is a teenager whose father has died, and who works in a newspaper office. When his short stories make the back page, he's launched on a career as a writer of lurid, crowd pleasing fiction, but he has a dream of writing something more literary. While he makes …
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