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Welcome To Griffie World
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 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 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.
Review 3: More Than Dust in the Wind
As a band member in high school every year I would attend band camp. While there are several memories that stand out in my mind from that time, the one thing that I could count on, aside from the inter-school rivalries that flourished, was that at least one night during the week long camp an argument would errupt over which religious denomination was better, Catholic or Protestant. Of course, at band camp the discussion usually included a third denomination of Mormonism thrown in just to keep the discussion lively. When I started reading More Than Dust in the Wind, these discussions came flooding back to me in full force, to the point where I could almost smell the camp fire as it slowly burned down to embers. These heated discussions would invariably take place at night and were usually ended abruptly by the playing of taps, which signaled it was time to go to our cabins.
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Bio
The short version:
LK Gardner-Griffie has launched her first novel with Misfit McCabe. She lives with her husband Denny, and their three wonderful, miniature, long-haired dachshund’s, Gryphon, Phoenix and Elsa, in sunny southern California.
Review 2: Mortal Ghost
Let’s go back in time to the hey-day of radio when stories were read on a weekly basis and the family gathered around the radio to wait for the next installment. Or when newspapers or magazines published novels a chapter at a time. The speculation of what would happen next would be discussed with the anticipation mounting as you waited for the story to continue. Author L. Lee Lowe has brought this concept back with her young adult fantasy novel, Mortal Ghost, by publishing it one chapter at a time via blog. She then published the book in installments via podcast and as an e-book, and then finally as a POD with Lulu.