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Blog postEver stand on a cliff precipice and look down? Feel the exhilaration and fear?
When I finish a book—be it a collection of short stories or now my debut novel—those feelings take over.
And then, when a publisher selects the book for publication, my thoughts and feelings intensify as the process of editing, revising, formatting, design layout, and cover selection begins.
If You Walk Long Enough, my debut novel, is scheduled for release February 2 -
Blog postAmericans enter their long holiday season—and really the only big one—in November (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hannukah, Kaawaza, Winter Solstice, New Year’s Day) ending the eating-visiting-drinking-gift giving rounds January 1.
For 2020 instead of visiting and parties, we’re advised to stay home in an attempt not to spread the COVID-19 virus. Other cultures and nationalities are likewise changing routines this pandemic year.
In my novel, If You Walk Long Enough, Reid finds -
Blog postFellow blogger and writing guru offers solid suggestions on techno keeping — also known as housekeeping on your computer. Take a look.
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This week, I’ll post updated suggestions to get your computers and technology ready for the blitz of writing and marketing you’ll swear to accomplish in New Year resolutions. Here’s what you get (links won’t be active until the post goes live):
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Blog postMe, after a day editing my own work…
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Blog postHere’s link to my poem “A Matter of Perspective” published in Blue Mountain Review. You’ll have to click on link, click on full screen, and scroll to p. 130. This is a great publication so take the opportunity to read as much of the magazine as you have time given your shelter-in-place status.
In the meantime, I’ve copied the poem below for you to read.
A Matter of Perspective
Stone & packed earth meander
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Blog postHere’s another comment from a veteran who served with Armed Forces Radio Vietnam on my novel, If You Walk Long Enough. He served during the time DJ Adrain Cronauer was in Vietnam. Good Morning Vietnam was based on Cronauer and portrayed by actor Robin Williams. Dan Baxter, my reviewer, a writer and copious reader, returned home to practice medicine.
“Nancy writes sensitively and powerfully about the after effects on both the veteran and those who love him. As with all wars, the pain i -
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Blog postAs a kid growing up in the South, stories of haints and ghosts were told with great enthusiasm and frequency by our elders. Small children were admonished to be careful of beings they could not see, of noises in the night. Blue bottle trees were a favorite yard decoration to ward off haints that might float into a house and cause trouble. I’ve included several bottle tree references in my novel, If You Walk Long Enough, for readers that enjoy having goosebumps creep up their arms.
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Blog postWhen Bill McCloud returned from Vietnam, he began sorting out what to do with his life. His war experience, added to his love of history and affair with words, eventually coalesced into a life path.
A three-time winner of the Woody Guthrie Poet Award (2019, 2018, 2017), he is as plain as the red dirt of Oklahoma and as distinctive as the land rush that marked the territory called “Sooner State.” His poetry and nonfiction persuade readers to think, empathize, and reflect on just -
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Blog postIf You Walk Long Enough is one step closer to being published and placed on bookstore and library shelves. One step closer to being available for personal purchase and gift giving. The gift part is timely with the holidays just around the corner. Adults that lived through the Vietnam War, millennials that never knew the conflict, the LGBTQ community, veterans, and fans of the historical narrative will enjoy this novel set against the backdrop of two green, tangled places.
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Blog postIf You Walk Long Enough (with apologies to Alice, from Wonderland)
Where shall I go from here? asks the dog.
Why bother? It is perfectly fine here in the sun, says the cat.
I don’t think it matters, if you have a mud wallow first, grunts the pig.
Keep walking, pull your share, wheezes the mule.
All roads lead somewhere, offers the cow, chewing her cud.
The world is a marvelous place, declares the spider.
Come, sit beside me, here i
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