Wordfire Press released NIGHT TERRORS, book 4 in the Sarah Beauhall series was released in 2016.īook 5, Rainbow Brigade is in final drafting stage. Pitts, author of Forged in Fire Cooper makes her real-life model, Argentinas Evita Pern, a clear presence while declining. Sarah Beauhall and the Bivalve Beatdown appeared in Urban Fantasy Magazine in 2015. So far the series consists of BLACK BLADE BLUES (2010), HONEYED WORDS (2011) and FORGED IN FIRE ( June 19th). My Sarah Beauhall series is out from Tor Publishing. The opportunities for you to read my work has just gotten even better. I just hope you are entertained in the process. I continue to launch my words into the world, for all to read if they have the mind. The characters and worlds I build have been given loving care by some pretty spectacular editors. Selling my own tales still comes as a surprise to me. Once I hit the workforce, I discovered how poorly most librarians are paid, and I ended up in high tech instead.īut I live my life surrounded by books and story. Forged in Fire (Sarah Jane Beauhall series) by J. There for a while, I thought the coolest thing in the world would be to grow up and be a librarian. I read early, and became a regular at my local library. I can’t remember a time I wasn’t absorbing and creating story.
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I would read anything Nancy Milford chose to write about, based on the strength of her biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, and Savage Beauty, her biography of Edna St. Vincent Millay on her first job as an actress in a traveling stock company I might pretend to myself as much and as long as I liked, - until the deep-vibrant note I had discovered in my voice … out-Hedda-ed Nazimova - yet was my native village unthrilled and unconvinced I was asked to serve ice-cream at church socials, and the grocer-boy called me by name …” “– oh, this was life! It was more than life, - it was art. Next biography on the biography shelf is Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. But as the piece grows, technique and craft take over, and imagination becomes a less useful tool. The artwork’s potential is never higher than in that magic moment when the first brushstroke is applied, the first chord struck. Imagination is in control when you begin making an object. 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I love that we get to see the Penderwicks at home over a longer period of time.Seriously, I cannot speak highly enough of this series. I need to own the whole series and I’ve only read the first two (and started the third). They are about family, friendship, growing up, and righting your mistakes. Where have I been that I am just getting into this series now that there are 5 books?! These books are delightful, silly, and beautiful. I raved about the Penderwicks in my first review of the series. Today I am so excited to share a review of The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall. A plan that should sink the crooked little casino, once and for all. His allies may not add up to much–his sister Abbey, an unreformed childhood biter Lice Peeking, a greedy sot with poor hygiene Shelly, a bartender and a woman scorned and a mysterious pirate-but Noah’s got a plan to flush this crook out into the open. He will prove that the Coral Queen is dumping illegally. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his dad failed. The boat is pumped out and back in business within days and Noah’s dad is stuck in the clink. He can’t prove it though, and so he decides that sinking the boat will make an effective statement. Noah’s dad is sure that the owner of the Coral Queen casino boat is flushing raw sewage into the harbor–which has made taking a dip at the local beach like swimming in a toilet. You know it’s going to be a rough summer when you spend Father’s Day visiting your dad in the local lockup. |