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  • Editorial Advice: To Listen Or Not To Listen?
    Whether you're an author publishing through traditional means or delving into self-publishing, you are going to want the feedback of a good editor or perhaps more than one The difficulty for authors, especially those choosing self-publishing is when do you take an editor's advice and make changes and when do you determine you've gotten enough feedback
  • Red Wing Pottery Makes Its Fiction Debut
    The novel, Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace is set in Minnesota among the states many natural wonders, rich history, and eclectic towns providing a vivid backdrop against which the story unfolds One of the key plot points involves Red Wing Pottery, manufactured in the Minnesota town of the same name for nearly 100 years
  • Rocking The Vote In 2008
    The story arc of Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace covers five years and three elections Set in Minnesota, home to the nation's highest voter turn-out, the Pierson family understands that voting is not a right but a privilege, and one they exercise regularly
  • Sometimes Evil Drives A Minivan
    The title comes from a Desperate Housewives episode, a program that has exemplified to great effect the idea that evil doesn't just come in the form of dictators, suicide bombers, corrupt governments, or disasters, but rather, that evil subsists among the ordinary and the mundane It's an every day occurrence and it walks among us, in the suburbs and the cities, as our co-workers, friends, neighbors, and even as our own family members
  • The Salvation Of Sobriety
    Alcoholism and its effects on one family's history are integral to the story being told in my novel, Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace The Pierson family portrayed in the book has suffered the blight of alcoholism for at least four generations, with two of the children, Kay and Paul, forced to confront their dependency
  • The Details Are In The Calendar
    Like many authors, writing a novel was always an aspiration When I finally started the process, in Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace I had a great story that had evolved from real-life events

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