Book Birthdays and Reviews

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal 6 Comments

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” ― W. Somerset Maugham And so once again, without knowing the rules, I have written a novel and seen it make its way out to the world of readers. Tuesday was release day for The Song of Sourwood Mountain. That is always an exciting day for …

A Writer Sees Stars

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next. (Rachel Cusk) Book reviews have been around as long as writers have been writing books. I’m guessing that even before books were printed, storytellers around the fire …

The Blessed on Tour

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The Blessed is on tour this week, visiting reviewers’ blogs in lots of places. I’m here at home, watching from afar and hoping the reviewers will like Lacey’s story. It’s always interesting reading those first reviews, but that’s all it can be – interesting. A writer doesn’t want to invest too much energy in tracking reviews. Good or bad. Some writers don’t …

So Many Books…

Ann H GabhartAnn's Posts, One Writer's Journal

~~ How tall is your “to read” stack? Or maybe your “already read” stack is the tallest? In this stack I’ve got a mix. Some I’ve read. Some I hope to read soon and some I’ve had a while that keep getting pushed to the bottom of the stack by new books. There are even some I might give away …