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Thursday, December 29, 2011
New Year Giveaway Hop
2012 New Year Giveaway Hop!
Enter to win a Kindle copy of my newest books!
Two winners will win both books!
To enter, please leave a comment at the
bottom of this post with your email address!
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LIZZIE BARLOW is running
from her past and present mistakes.
Not knowing which direction to go, she finds herself hiding out in the same Amish
community in which she grew up. With her ten-year-old daughter Abby, in tow,
she fears her secrets will catch up to her.
When ABBY discovers her
real father may be living just down the road from where they are staying, she
sets off on an adventure to meet him. What she doesn't know are the many
secrets that her mother never shared with her--the same secrets that will turn
her life upside down.
JACOB YODER is a young,
Amish widower, trying to raise his ten-year-old son, when his past shows up on
his doorstep unexpectedly, threatening to change his life forever.
Will life ever be the
same for Lizzie and Jacob? Or will their mistakes change everything?
Look for Book Two: Amish Winter Wonderland, coming January, 2012.
LOGAN
FISHER arrives in Tombstone Arizona in the spring of 1885 to bury his estranged
father after he was gunned down during a robbery of the Wells Fargo stage.
An
experienced bounty hunter, Logan is determined to join the posse that will help
bring the outlaws responsible to justice. But when the lovely school teacher becomes a
distraction, Logan begins to rethink his commitment to the cause.
DAISY
MAE PINKERTON is the beautiful school teacher (and the Preacher’s daughter) who
turns Logan's head and reminds him of his faith-inspired upbringing, hoping it
will melt the ice that's formed over his heart, and convince him to give up his
gun-slinging ways. But does she want more from him?
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Writing with Dyslexia
WRITING
WITH DYSLEXIA
My
mother used to tease me and say I didn’t know my right from my left. She was
partially correct. And unfortunately, I didn’t find out why until I became an
adult.
It
wasn’t that I didn’t know my right from my left; it was that my brain couldn’t
process which was which unless I looked at my hands and remembered which hand I
wrote with. Thank God I’m not ambidextrous!
Typing
is also very difficult for me, even though I took typing classes and I know where the keys are. But when I
type, my mind puts the letters in the wrong order. For example: instead of
typing “the” for the, it comes out “hte” nearly every time, but when I look at
it, it seems normal to me. Some days, it seems I spend more time with my spell
check and the backspace key, than I do getting the book down on the page. If not
for spell check I wouldn’t get very far…but I’ve discovered a flaw in the
spell/grammar check recently when I posted my new Amish Romance, Jacob’s
Daughter. An acquaintance on FB informed me after reading the book that there
were two separate spots where I used the word “trails”, when I meant for it to
say “trials”. Because “trails” is a recognized word, my spell check did not
pick it up! I have since then fixed the error, despite the fact that several
hundred copies had already been sold containing the error…to those who have
that version…I apologize heartily.
How
can I write like this, you ask? Well since I type so fast, and I cheat and put
the spell-check on automatic, I can get a major portion of my writing done
fairly quickly despite my dyslexic fingers—or is it all in my head? As a matter
of fact, it has to do with vision, and how our minds interpret words, and for
some, numbers too. I, unfortunately have trouble with numbers as well. So as a
defense mechanism, I would memorize numbers, such as phone numbers, locker
combinations (yes, I still remember my phone number that we had when I was a
kid, and my locker combination from school). Nowadays, it’s addresses, license
plate numbers, etc. But ask me to count cards to play poker, and that’s
something I can’t do!
Being
a writer, I have tons of books in my head—memorized—getting them onto the
computer is the difficult part. Some days, I find myself spelling the words out
loud as I type to ensure I’m getting the words down correctly. That method
doesn’t work when I’m tired.
Since
writing is my passion, I thank God for the technology that we have today that
allows me to pursue my dream. It takes a lot of patience and hard work to write
with dyslexia, but with persistence and dedication to mastering the skill, I’ve
discovered a whole new way to use my talents for good instead of
mischief—through the written word.
Winners Have been chosen!
Congratulations!
Julie Brown
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June Manning
Amazon only
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Thursday, December 8, 2011
Gift Card Giveaway Hop
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