elma's almanac

Memories of my Grandma Elizabeth inspired me to write this little retrospective. What grandparent memories do you have to share? In the days...

Worst storyline contest: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/The+Third+Worst+Storyline+Ever+Contest.aspx Favorite childhood books...

Invitations to submit to anthologies, notices about contests and writers' conferences, etc. http://www.writersrelief.com/blog/post/Antho...

If you're writing a book for publication and you quote directly from another book or other source, you should either cite your source ri...

My husband's Aunt Ev Jeck is a source of lots of fascinating information including retrospectives. She just sent me this "history o...

Recently a writing friend was told to eliminate from her writing as many state of being verbs as she could, i.e. "am, are, is, was, and...

I'm interested in how religious faith, especially Christianity, is expressed in fiction (or not expressed even if the author subscribes ...