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My MG novel The Wide Awake Loons released!

In time for summer vacation reading, The Wide Awake Loons was published April 16 by Silver Knight Publishing. Set in Northern Minnesota, this middle grade novel unites the stories of lake kids and a loon family. It is available at…See More

May 13

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Interview of Fireflies paranormal author P. S. Bartlett

Friday, April 12, 2013 Interview of Fireflies author P. S. Bartlett This spring, as I count the days until April 16 when my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons is published, GMTA Publishing has released Fireflies by P. S. Bartlett. P. S. Barlett’s illuminating novel Fireflies is about a boy who, through the "sight" or haunting psychic experience, remembers his…See More

Apr 12

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Climate and Other Changes

Last year, most of our winter in Northern Minnesota was snowless. The ground remained brown in the dead way of November. There were a few snowfalls but they soon melted. Global warming seemed very real. startribune.comI’d never experienced any winter like that in Minnesota. The winters of my childhood are remembered with drifts at street corners,…See More

Feb 10

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Memory, Eidetic Memory, and Fiction

Memory. What is it? Words or is it pictures? I don’t know if people think about that unless they notice exactly what goes through their heads when they remember. If a name is mentioned, does a picture of the person flash through the head? Or a street named in the hometown. Is it accompanied by a landscape? Writers probably think about that more than other people. Pictures in the head inspire a writer to transcribe them or create them. I liked to describe interiors while I was…See More

Jan 8

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First Editions, First Tries

First editions are first tries, both for the author and the publisher. Their worth in the used and rare book field is often something to wonder about when you consider that the first edition of Gone with the Wind looks like the umpteenth printing. Fine bindings and good condition can’t help but hold sway. Yet the esteem for courage, that of an author or a publisher, is what makes a first edition a prize for the book collector. …See More

Dec 9, 2012

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Storyteller or dramatic narrator? With a review of Elizabeth Zahzam's God of Wine

Some experiences challenge accepted ideas. In the last days, we’ve seen the entire east coast region in a black out, cut off from transportation and even communication. Yet this vulnerability hasn’t brought on any foreign attack. The U.S. still has so much to offer other nations that its presence is probably too vital for any planned attack. I grew up during the Cold War era and since then, our defense system may have operated on a foundation of paranoia. I was glad to hear of the National…See More

Nov 9, 2012

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Learning new words or old words?

Learning new words or old words?THE HOUSE IN WINDWARD LEAVES is free on Kindle Oct 4 to Oct 8Drama queen. Decandy. Podsnap. Geophony. Two words are new; two are…See More

Oct 1, 2012

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Representative Akin and Graduate School in a High Crime Area

Books are a forest and it’s hard to see the trees, except the tall ones or the old ones. But when you enter the forest, it’s the new growth that emits the sunlight....Friday, September 7, 2012Representative Akin and graduate school in a high crime areaAt first I dismissed Representative Todd Akin‘s weak statement about rape and conception as more political cant like that about abortion. …See More

Sep 7, 2012

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The Bronte's and the psychology of passion

Interest in Jane Austen has revived these days but, although she was a favorite, I had an enduring fascination with the Bronte's. In my older sister’s bedroom were Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the woodcut editions. I was fascinated by these illustrations and, seeing the name Kathy in Wuthering Heights, my nickname, I resolved to read these books as soon as I could.…See More

Aug 6, 2012

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How came my short story collection title - and a review of Mount Can't

When I arrived at the title of the first short story in my collection Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories, I meant for the sphinx to be like that at Delphi, a sphinx with riddles. The first story is about the hierarchy of computer saavy.The computer was a riddle in the1980s. While finishing coursework for a graduate degree, I worked in university departments and must have tried the programs of about six manufacturers in one year. Computers then were not standardized and often,…See More

Jul 6, 2012

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My middle grade loon book to be published!

On April 16, I signed a contract with Silver Knight Publishing for my middle grade book The Wide Awake Loons.That book felt “meant to be” from the first. The conception of books is a subject that mystifies. The Wide Awake Loonsis the only book that I planned in my head before writing it down. My other novels…See More

May 2, 2012

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The Jungle, desk hazards, and reviews: Tom Winton and L. Anne Carrington

The Jungle, desk hazards, and reviews: Tom Winton and L. Anne CarringtonBLOG POST BY KATHERINE HOLMES - APR.02.2012 - 2:05 PM3…See More

Apr 2, 2012

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Living Wills, my mother, and m. m. fahren's The Golden Amulet

Living Wills, my mother, and m. m. Fahren's The Golden AmuletIn writing, in thoughts, a person is a living will of their own choices. My mother's death was complicated because of issues about her choices. I remember four years ago when she was 88, she had a stressful meeting with doctors and other health workers. My sister was present. My mother informed me afterwards…See More

Mar 5, 2012

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Resolution again: Revise

Resolution Again: ReviseMy New Year's resolution is the same as last year's, until June at least. 2011 was my first year writing in which I spent most of my time revising!After I revised my Authonomy Editor's Desk book, The Swan Bonnet, I kept going with my old stuff. I had loved the new idea and if I got the message, "Not right for us but send again", that had me going on to my next idea. I enjoyed…See More

Feb 3, 2012

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Fiction, Sanity, and a review of Jeff Blackmer's Draegnstoen

Fiction, Sanity, and a review of Jeff Blackmer's Draegnstoen (The House of Windward Leaves , my middle grade fantasy about identity, is free on Smashwords until January 26 with coupon PB55U )Dealing with the possibility of death at Christmastime, I was…See More

Jan 4, 2012

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Fiction from Reality or the news that can't be published

Reviewing Joanna Stephen-Ward Vissi d’arte, Shah Wali Fazli’s The Interpreter, Faith Mortimer’s Assassin’s Village, and MG Villesca’s Getting ME Back.Reading, we like to believe we’re in something true, that it “rings true.” When movies were only available at the local theaters, everyone liked to give their opinion. “It was OK, but some of it seemed fake” or “I could see the camera tricks” or “Wow, you should see it.” The main criteria used to be its reality factor.Older, I lost my…See More

Dec 7, 2011

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My MG novel The Wide Awake Loons released!

Interview of Fireflies paranormal author P. S. Bartlett

Climate and Other Changes

Memory, Eidetic Memory, and Fiction

First Editions, First Tries

Storyteller or dramatic narrator? With a review of Elizabeth Zahzam's God of Wine

Learning new words or old words?

Representative Akin and Graduate School in a High Crime Area

The Bronte's and the psychology of passion

How came my short story collection title - and a review of Mount Can't

My middle grade loon book to be published!

The Jungle, desk hazards, and reviews: Tom Winton and L. Anne Carrington

Living Wills, my mother, and m. m. fahren's The Golden Amulet

Resolution again: Revise

Fiction, Sanity, and a review of Jeff Blackmer's Draegnstoen

Fiction from Reality or the news that can't be published

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