Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Walnut Grove, MN (photo ©Kara Pekar, 2012) While we were on vacation last month, we stumbled across the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Walnut Grove, MN. I hadn’t realized we would be near any of the Laura Ingalls Wilder sites on this trip, let alone… Read more »
Since I was on vacation without Internet for three weeks, some of these articles are from earlier than the past week. “How I got a big advance from a big publisher and self-published anyway” (Penelope Trunk) is a blog post detailing Trunk’s experience with the marketing department of a major… Read more »
Tom Doherty Associates, the Macmillan subsidiary, announced this morning that Tor/Forge books are now available DRM-free from all major ebook retailers, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo, and Sony. Tom Doherty Associates publishes under the Tor, Forge, Orb, and Tor Teen imprints. I checked most of the major… Read more »
Cast On, Kill Off by Maggie Sefton Series: Knitting Mystery #10 Published by Berkley on 6/05/2012 Genres: Cozy Mystery, Mystery Format: Hardcover Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Close Knit Killer, Yarn Over Murder, Purl Up and Die, Knit to Be Tied, Only Skein Deep Also… Read more »
Rainshadow Road by Lisa Kleypas Series: Friday Harbor #2 Published by St. Martin’s Press on February 28, 2012 Genres: Contemporary Romance Pages: 308 Format: Paperback Source: the library Add to Goodreads Also in this series: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor, Dream Lake, Crystal Cove Also by this author: Christmas Eve… Read more »
The world of children’s literature lost two well-loved children’s authors last week: Donald J. Sobol and Else Holmelund Minarik. Which of us did not read at least one “Encyclopedia Brown” mystery as a child? For many of us, it was our first introduction to the mystery genre. The series debuted… Read more »
Book Description: For star-crossed lovers Nimira and Erris, there can be no happily ever after until Erris is freed from the clockwork form in which his soul is trapped. And so they go in search of the sorcerer Ordorio Valdana, hoping he will know how to grant Erris real life… Read more »
Banff National Park © K. Pekar, 2012 I’m just back from a fantastic three-week vacation with my family, two weeks of it spent in Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies. Gorgeous mountains, beautiful streams and waterfalls, lovely walks and hikes, gondola and tram rides, whitewater rafting, and… Read more »
Category: Nonfiction Subject: Writing, creativity, and creative block How I got the book: Public library The Sound of Paper: Starting From Scratch is a series of related chapter or essays on creativity and creative blocks. Author Julia Cameron (The Artist’s Way) begins each essay (or chapter) by musing on some… Read more »
Category: Family movie (historical; fantasy) Movie source: Netflix We recently watched From Time to Time, a 2009 British television movie based on L. M. Boston’s The Treasure of Green Knowe. My daughter and I love the Green Knowe series, and we tend to become a bit irked whenever a movie… Read more »
