Anne Ball, author of 5 novels that I have reviewed, has a new book, and you don't want to miss it. A Month of Sundays is clever, well written, and engaging. Available from the publisher or at Amazon and a bargain at only $11.00 (paperback).
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Anne Ball, author of 5 novels that I have reviewed, has a new book, and you don't want to miss it. A Month of Sundays is clever, well written, and engaging. Available from the publisher or at Amazon and a bargain at only $11.00 (paperback).
Archives of the 1970s.
Dan Sinykin of Fiction, Scholarship, and Academic Twitter
"Reading these archives meant learning in a kind of skimming form. You gradually, incrementally pick up important details. Names that were completely meaningless to you at first start to take on significance. You start to build a sense of who this person is, and then suddenly you come across a document and it’s like, “Oh wow!”
Writers on Writing
This is a complete archive of the NYT Writers on Writing column, a series in which writers explore literary themes. Writers are listed alphabetically and the links work!
Please avail yourself of this excellent resource! This is a way we can learn from renown published writers.
Related reading: Archive Your Writing
The Holy Other
How the Only, Holy Other
Would become just another,
To walk among men
I cannot comprehend.
Only His holy character
Caused Him to come matter,
Allowing us here so far below,
To know Him and to show
Us how far we have fallen,
While giving hope of heaven.
Truly God is holy, holy, holy!
Just as true "Woe is me!"
Only God's love and grace
Can compel me to face,
Jesus, born of human mother,
Imaging the Only, Holy Other.
Hope Ellen Rapson
This poem about the Incarnation of Jesus, fully human and fully God, is offered as a Christmas poem by Hope Ellen Rapson.
Hypostasis
With his infant hands,
All stars are held in place.
The brightest one stands,
To shine upon the face
Of Him who expands
And orders all matter, space.
So emptied---into finite man,
Here born, lays Eternal Grace.
Bound now within time’s span,
His flesh-clad feet will trace,
An ancient redemptive plan
To re-create Adam’s race---
With His Infinite Hands.
Rayanne Sinclair (Anne Ball) spoke about her books in October to a Seattle-based Book Club. The series has four titles: Steal Away (set in Scotland); Beso Dulce (set in Mexico); Page Turner (set in a Midwestern University), and Flight Risk (set in Alaska). Talk about versatility!
Click on the links to read reviews.
Anne's most recent book, The Companion, is a novella that pulls the heartstrings. It is published under the pseudonym Pad Brotherton because it is as unlike the first four books as the sun is from the moon.
The protagonist is Libby Stamas, a wealthy Colorado Springs widow, who hires Will Westfall, a graduate student, to visit with her several times a week. In addition to learning about Libby’s painful life history, Will finds there is something else quite unusual about her. She has vision into the spiritual realm―what she calls “the other side.” What starts as a side job to pay the bills turns into a life-changing experience for Will, the companion. He is at first skeptical, then intrigued, and, ultimately, a believer in more than just Libby’s abilities when one of her visions portends his premature death.
The research took 40 years, but I was able to make a rather complex subject easy to understand. I hope you will buy the book and discover answers to some perennial questions, such as: