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Book Reviews

I have started reviewing books for the Lulu Book Review and have posted links to those reviews below.  I have included the links directly to the Lulu Book Review site as well as the page where they are displayed on my blog.  The title link will take you to a place where you can purchase the book online, the LLBR link will take you to the review on the Lulu Book Review, and the BLOG link will take you to the review on Griffie World Happenings.

  1. Stealing Wishes by Shannon Yarbrough - BLOG - light romantic gay fiction

  2. Mortal Ghost by L. Lee Lowe - LLBR BLOG - Young adult, paranormal, horror fiction

  3. More Than Dust in the Wind by Donald James Parker - LLBR BLOG - fiction, spiritual

  4. Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot - BLOG - chick lit, mystery

  5. Will and the Soaring Seed by Devin Boone - LLBR BLOG - children's picture book

  6. Meet Robby the C-130 by Beth Mahoney, illustrated by Zachary Porter - LLBR BLOG - children's picture book, coping

  7. Bob the Dragon Slayer by Harry E Gilleland, Jr. - LLBR BLOG - clean adult fairy tale

  8. Motherless Child - stories from a life by Sarah Gordon Weathersby - LLBR BLOG - memoir

  9. Stump's in the Cellar by Jeff Smallman - LLBR BLOG - children's book, juvenile fiction

Misfit McCabe

Here is the new book trailer.  Click on the play button to view. 

When 14 year old Katie McCabe accidentally burns down a neighbor's shed, she thinks it is the worst day of her life. Little does she know it is only the beginning of bad things to come. Katie is devastated when her father becomes too ill to care for her. Angry with being sent to live with an uncle she doesn't know, Katie becomes determined to make Uncle Charley regret his decision to take her in.

Misfit McCabe represents LK Gardner-Griffie's first completed novel.  She has several other projects in the works and hopes to complete her next book launch in 2009.

If you would like to preview the first chapter of this book, click on the book cover.
To purchase this book, it is currently available through Lulu.com,
Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble 

If you own an Amazon Kindle, you can purchase the Kindle edition here.

     

 

Thoughts on Writing (for young writers)

In the late phases of getting Misfit McCabe ready for publication, I started a project with a class of young reader's and would like to share some of the thoughts that I have shared with them on the writing process and being an author. - LK
 

  1. Proofreading & Life Experience
  2. How Authors get story ideas
  3. What Makes a Story?
  4. How Writers Write
  5. Voice and Point of View
  6. Writing Tags
  7. Story Flow
  8. The Hook
  9. The Cover
  10. The Writing Environment
  11. Preparing to Write
  12. Battling the Blank Page
  13. Tips for Creating Your Masterpiece
  14. Storytelling Methods
  15. The First Page
  16. In the Words of Mark Twain
  17. The Birth of a Character
  18. The Counting Game

 

 

Happy Reading

 
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