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Hi ~ Thanks for taking the time to stop by. I’m author LK Gardner-Griffie and I write novels for young adults. On this site you’ll find information about my books, reviews of my books, reviews I’ve written, information on writing directed toward young writers, videos, and other things about our life.
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Editing – Where Do You Start?
You’ve finished writing your story and if you are anything like me, you feel like doing a few fist pumps in the air, and taking a victory lap. Walking on air, you’re bursting with pride. You finished. What an accomplishment!
Then, the reality starts to set in. The creative process is finished, but the race is not yet run. Looming in your future is the arduous task of editing your masterpiece or as I call it at this point, my monstrosity. Where do you start? What can you look for?
Review 10: Escaping Innocence
Escaping Innocence is set in a time when the world, or at least the United States, was a little more innocent. During the turbulent times of the sixties, we as a nation lost some of that innocence through war, drugs, and the sexual revolution. Each generation has grown up knowing more at an earlier age, experiencing more, and therefore, the innocent days of youth are gone in the blink of an eye.
The Counting Game
Writers tend to think about the lengths of things they are doing in the number of words. For a journalist, this is something that is often dictated to them by their editor based on the space that needs to be filled. “I need a hundred word piece” or “Put 500 words on paper about. . .” and within that scope the journalist knows whether they are being asked to do a feature length, filler, or somewhere in between.
Review 8: Motherless Child
Opening the cover of Motherless Child – stories from a life is like arriving at Sarah’s home, where she welcomes you with that special brand of southern hospitality, invites you to sit down for a spell and have a nice tall drink of ice tea while she tells you stories from her past. Reading this book brought back memories from my own childhood of sitting in my grandmother’s parlor and having her tell us stories of life from yesteryear, while gently rocking back and forth in her rocking chair. I could almost hear the creak of the floorboards as her chair went back and forth over that well worn track.
Review 7: Bob the Dragon Slayer
It’s time to let out your inner child and delight it with a fairy tale. Fairy tales were something that as a child I couldn’t get enough of. A trip into the land of fantasy where there were kings and queens, witches and wizards, beautiful damsels and handsome knights, and where trouble lurked around every corner. Fairy tales were wonderful because good prevailed and evil always lost in the end, so you could be deliciously scared about what was happening, secure in the knowledge that the hero would prevail in the end. Bob the Dragon Slayer brings this storybook format back to us, and this time, the fairy tale is for the adult. Harry E. Gilleland, Jr. brings his unique sense of humor to us in this fairy tale, and it is a tale that will have you chuckling, chortling, and laughing out loud.
Review 6: Meet Robby the C-130
I can sum up Meet Robby the C-130 in two words: Absolutely Delightful! This children’s book is definitely a home run swing. Meet Robby the C-130 is a book which was created to help military children handle the times when either mommy or daddy is deployed and away from home. With the occupation of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, absentee parents have become a way of life for many military families. Beth Mahoney writes of what she knows well, having grown up as a child of the military, turned military wife of 17 years. She is raising her 3 children while her husband is frequently deployed, along with running a military parenting organization.
Review 5: Will and the Soaring Seed
I first ran across Will and the Soaring Seed while reading some posts on the Lulu Promote Your Book Forum. I was not actually looking for books to review, but doing some research prior to drafting a post promoting the Where in the World is Misfit McCabe? project, which is featured here on the Lulu Book Review under the WITW is MMC tab. As I was reading through the multitude of posts plugging authors’ work, I read a post by author and illustrator Devin Boone and his description captured me enough to click the link to take a look at the children’s book he was promoting. I was glad that I did.
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Review 4: Size 12 Is Not Fat
I have been trying to get an opportunity to read some of Meg Cabot’s work. She is a prolific writer and I have always heard good things about her books, but haven’t been able to find the time to read any of them, while trying to get Misfit McCabe launched, write the sequel, read material and write reviews for the Lulu Book Review, and oh, there’s that little thing called the full time day job (which usually ends up being full time and a half). With a title like Size 12 Is Not Fat, I decided that I had to start there because the title just grabbed me. For someone who struggles daily battling the weight issue, I was looking forward to reading a book with a heroine who was not built along the lines of a toothpick. Not that toothpicks are bad, but they are much more prevalent between the covers of our favorite books than they are walking the streets. Also, I figured that with only 3 books in the series so far, I could catch up much more quickly than with The Princess Diaries series, which is getting ready to launch book number 10. Plus, I like mysteries and the bulk of my “for pleasure” reading is light weight mysteries.