SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2022 AMELIA INDIE AUTHORS VIRTUAL BOOK FESTIVAL! -Where Independent Readers and Writers Meet – CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS I haven’t really been AWOL.. just writing a lot of book descriptions, and instructions and schedules, and… A quick recap for you. Nancy Blanton, award-winning author of 17th-century Irish historical fiction is a close friend and a neighbor here on Amelia Island. A few years ago, we started Amelia Indie Authors — a co-op designed to help independent authors raise the bar on what they…
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Gun Violence and Passive Voice
It breaks my heart that gun violence has become an evergreen topic, but here we are. I won’t list them but the Gun Violence Archive does. It’s unsettling to look at the list and see how many of these terrible tragedies have already faded in memory. The following is an update of post that appeared here three years ago. ## What do you see when I say “passive?” Hankie-totin’ Southern ladies on their fainting couches? Perhaps a heroine, reenacting The Perils of Pauline, tied to the…
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