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There is magic in every  thoughtful word.     Never doubt it!
 

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GREAT WRITER'S RESOURCE:  www.duotrope.com

SPECIAL THANKS TO  Persimmon Magazine for accepting a short nonfiction piece of mine recently.  

SPECIAL THANKS TO  Thin Line for accepting three short nonfiction pieces for an anthology scheduled for publication in 2013.

SPECIAL THANKS TO Creative Thinkers International for featuring blogs that I have written in 2012, and for beating the drum for peace, freedom, and equality.

SPECIAL THANKS TO all the editors and publishers who over the decades have published my work or taken the time to make helpful comments.   For all you do for readers and writers!!

Short List of Books that Changed my Life

 A Man in Full -- Tom Wolfe
 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front  -- Erich Maria Remarque
Beach Music & The Prince of Tides -- Pat Conroy
Body and Soul -- Frank Conroy
Cannery Row, East of Eden  & The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Far from the Madding Crowd -- Thomas Hardy
Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
Middlemarch -- George Eliot
Pickwick Papers, Hard Times, & Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
Red Badge of Courage -- Stephen Crane
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- Carson McCullers
The Poisonwood Bible -- Barbara Kingsolver
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Billy Budd -- Herman Melville
The Good Earth – Pearl Buck
The Accidental Tourist – Ann Tyler
The Last of the Mohicans -- James Fenimore Cooper
The Shipping News -- E. Annie Proulx*
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee