Patricia L. Atchison

I purchased Rabbit & Bear Make A Wish today by Tara Shannon. It’s a beautiful book. I love the messages and illustrations. I only wish Indigo had it in the Children’s section rather than buried in the Graphic Novel Literary section- it was hard to find.

It’s difficult keeping up with technology trends. Here’s something that is ‘making waves’ with publishers and authors when it comes to marketing books.

Happy International Children’s Book Day! Literacy is so near and dear to my heart. Sign your child up for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library today https://imaginationlibrary.com

Read to children, they will have your undivided attention and will also learn the value and pleasure in reading books.

NaNoWriMo is coming to an end Nov 30. One week left! I'm at 38,505 of my 50,000 goal. My story is coming along, lots of twists I never expected. I'm learning about my writing and processes. To succeed, it's best to forge on, just let the writing flow. For me it works until I lift my eyes and see dozens of typos, then I spend the next 20-30 minutes rewriting. It's all good though. Progress is progress. (Photo credit Prairie Moon Photography) #happytobewriting. #nanowrimo2020, #NaNoWriMo

#nanowrino in at 16,000 words. YA Portal/Romance Fantasy. #amwriting #amwritingfiction #amreading #writing #authorlife #writerscommunity #wrtierofig #author

I'm in day 3, and I'm pretty excited. I'm pushing 9,000 words of a 50,000 word goal for #NaNoWriMo , but my intention if to finish book 1 of a Trilogy, Ya Portal Fantasy. Just beginning, things may change but for now, I'm calling and describing it: Bridge Beyond Time. - Two teens guided by Guardian Protectors discover the Bridge on Spirit Island is the only way out to a different future and in to solve a mysterious disappearance.

Copied and pasted with permission from another site, not sure who the author is of the last bit, but thank you for you words of wisdom. It’s well worth the read. I believe it’s why I keep writing. In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond - and his response is magnificent: Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta: I than...Continue reading

I figure... Why Not! I’ve been working on plotting a new trilogy for YA (Young Adult) in the portal fantasy/adventure romance genre. The object of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), taking place during November, is to write 50,000 words. While it can complete a book, I’ll do the word count, but will likely need another 30k words to satisfy the needs of my audience. Yes I’m excited! I’m a total planner, and I’m almost there- just a bit more research. I’ll keep you posted on my progress

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"A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone." -- Jo Goodwin For this week's Banned Books Week, we're honoring an author who has spent de...cades fighting against censorship: Judy Blume. As she once observed: "It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. For two inspiring books about girls fighting against censorship in schools - both for ages 9 to 12 - we highly recommend "Property of the Rebel Librarian" (https://www.amightygirl.com/property-of-the-rebel-librarian) and "Ban This Book" (https://www.amightygirl.com/ban-this-book) For a thought-provoking young adult novel exploring censorship, we recommend "Suggested Reading" for ages 14 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/suggested-reading For two excellent books about Mighty Girls who find hope by reading forbidden books - both for ages 12 and up - we recommend "Voices" (https://www.amightygirl.com/voices) and "The Book Thief" (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-book-thief) For stories about girls living in oppressive societies with little respect for freedom of expression, you can find many titles for children and teens in our "Oppression & Repression" book section at http://amgrl.co/2gAoIGs And, for Mighty Girl stories that pay tribute to the transformative power of books, check out our blog post "Celebrating a Love of Reading: 35 Mighty Girl Stories about Books, Libraries, and Literacy" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=11656

Testament to the fact that it’s never to late to create and make a dream come true.

An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. A dangling participle walks into a b...ar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a bar. A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony - Jill Thomas Doyle