Famous Quotes: X

Who Wrote These Quotes: Me or Someone Famous?

(1) “The difference between editors and lemmings? Lemmings don’t always run into the sea”.

Clifford Irving or Vince Mooney

(2) The title to a work of writing is like a house's front porch.... It should invite you to come on in.
Angela Giles Klocke or Vince Mooney

(3) "Authors would do better if they would listen more to their readers and less than to their characters".
James Scott Bell or Vince Mooney

(4) "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow or Vince Mooney

(5) “I felt so guilty about how badly I treat my characters, that I wrote myself into a story and let one of my character’s kill me.”
Mickey Spillane or Vince Mooney

(6) "The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves."
Andrea Brown or Vince Mooney

(7) “Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.”
Carl Sagan or Vince Mooney

(8) "Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point where one cannot change it is to greatly enhance the prospects of never publishing."
Richard North Patterson or Vince Mooney

(9) "It is with words as with sunbeams -- the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
Robert Southey or Vince Mooney

(10) Writers used to learn their craft from reading the greats. Now they teach each other in support groups. Somehow I don’t see this as a way to greatness.
Barbara Kingsolver or Vince Mooney

(11) “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
Elmore Leonard or Vince Mooney

(12) The less a writer has to say, the longer his books.
John Grisham or Vince Mooney

(13) "Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
Longfellow or Vince Mooney

(14) The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
Beverly Cleary or Vince Mooney

(15) Mid-grade readers don’t have short attention spans, they just have low boredom tolerance.
Judith Viorst or Vince Mooney

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Famous Quotes IX

Who Wrote These Quotes: Me or Someone Famous?

(1) Fantasy's hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander or Vince Mooney

(2) Writing is just the physical manifestation of what’s going on in the writer’s mind. It’s the mind that’s the wonder; not the writing.
J. L. Austin or Vince Mooney

(3) A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
Walker Percy or Vince Mooney

(4) Why can’t the really bad authors ever get writer’s block?
Will Rogers or Vince Mooney

(5) Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader- not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
E.L. Doctorow or Vince Mooney

(6) When writers work their magic, their words disappear.
Patricia Gaffney or Vince Mooney

(7) A book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
C.S. Lewis or Vince Mooney

(8) Writing things down will no more get them out of your system than printing your WIP will get it out of your computer’s system. All you’ve done is created a second location for what is bothering you.
Nicholas Sparks or Vince Mooney

(9) The shorter and the plainer the better.
Beatrix Potter or Vince Mooney

(10) If you are a really entertaining story teller, you can write any story to any page length the publisher wants.
Jack London or Vince Mooney

(11) "A writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature."
Ernest Hemingway or Vince Mooney

(12) I think a really good novel is one that’s exactly 225 page long.
Sophie Tucker or Vince Mooney

(13) "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
Oliver Herford or Vince Mooney

(14) Rewriting is totally overrated. If you can’t cook a decent meal, what makes you think re-cooking it is going to make it much better?
Stephen King or Vince Mooney

(15) "If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last line, my last paragraph, my last page first."
Katherine Anne Porter or Vince Mooney

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Triple Winner! Best Beginning, Best “Black Moment” & Best HEA of the Month!

Kansas Courtship: Amazingly Well Written – A Joy to Read!

Kansas Courtshipby Victoria Bylin
Love Inspired Historical
Mar 1, 2010
Miniseries: After the Storm: The Founding Years
Category: Inspirational Romance


Last year I read the first chapter posted on a blog appearance by the author. I instantly bought and downloaded the book but had other reviews to write first. When I recently discovered “Kansas Courtship” in my eBook Reader, I stopped everything else and just read it. This book is so good that I am in a hurry to read another of the author’s books just to see if this book is a ‘one off’ or if this is how Victoria Bylin writes all the time. This wonderful book was a victim of becoming lost in my eBook Reader.

Best Beginning!

The story starts after a tornado destroys much of the new town of High Plains. A woman doctor is coming to this Kansas town because it was her only hope of getting a job. She is a pioneer female doctor. The hero has offered her a job as town doctor because the old doctor died trying to deal with all the tornado injured. What no one knows is that the heroine used her initials and everyone thinks Dr. N. Mitchell is a man. The story gets off to an instant fast start on several levels. I don’t think you can read the first chapter and not buy this book.

Best “Black Moment”

In one respect, the reader can see the ‘black moment’ coming from a great distance. Both the hero, Zeb Garrison, and heroine, Dr. Nora Mitchell, have multiple good reasons why they should not become a pair. Their reasons are different and are deep-rooted in their backgrounds. As the reader approaches the ‘black moment’ the conflict only increases. It’s almost like watching two trains headed towards each other on the same track. This is how to hold a reader’s attention. Just masterful.

Best HEA!

"Kansas Courtship" has at least four HEA’s rolled into one. It also plays very fairly with the reader in having things happen as they really would and not just as they would happen in a romance novel to obtain the greatest emotional impact. This fairness actually increases the impact of the other HEAs. I can’t tell any more than this. You just have to read it for yourself.

If you are an aspiring writer, “Kansas Courtship” is worth buying just for the beginning, or just for being able to study the ‘black moment’ or just for seeing the four HEAs.

If you just a reader who loves romances, it's hard to think how you could find a better love story that this. Very, very sympathetic characters. Even the villains have redeeming characteristics. A must read!

Five Stars & a Standing Ovation!

Author’s Current Book

The Outlaw's Return
by
Victoria Bylin
Love Inspired Historical



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Peaceful, Indiana, 1900, Turn of the Century Love Story

Wanted: A Family
Janet Dean
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Harlequin; Love Inspired Historical
288 edition (March 1, 2011)
Now available for the Kindle

Emotional Story of Love, Redemption, Second Chances, and Social History

“Wanted: A Family” continues a theme of social responsibility that occurs in Janet Dean’s other historical romances: "Courting Miss Adelaide",   "Courting the Doctor's Daughter" and "The Substitute Bride" .  

It’s 1900 and the world is changing.

The hero, Jacob Smith, spent time in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. He was betrayed by his best friend and the woman he loved. While innocent, Jacob still feels contaminated by his prison stay. He’s an orphan brought up in a series of sterile and unfeeling orphanages. As such, Jacob is a truly alienated loner with major trust issues.

The heroine, Callie Mitchell, married a happy-go-lucky, lazy man who died while she was in the early stages of pregnancy.

Callie lives in an unsafe dilapidated Victorian house that needs major repairs which she has no money to pay for. Callie also plans on bringing in unwed mothers to her large home. Many of these will not be able to contribute to their expenses. Callie really needs a miracle.

Jacob happens to be a carpenter who is in town to follow a lead on finding out his mother’s identity.

He trades working on the home for room and board. There is very strong, immediate, chemistry between Jacob and Carrie but both have strong trust issues that act to keep them apart. The story is full of emotion and there is never a dull moment.

The narrative features Janet Dean’s crystal clear prose. All the characters are very well drawn and sympathetic. The ending is sure to warm your heart.

“Wanted: A Family” is a powerful story, inspired with love and a joy to read.

Highly Recommended!