Category Archives: Spokane Authors and Self-Publishers

Book Review – Drummer Loves Dancer by Fred Jessett

Posted on June 3, 2019 by

It is the 1950s in Seattle, Washington, a simpler and more innocent time. Lad MacAdam, a drummer in the Puget Sound Scots Pipe Band, is involved in an outdoor stage production of Brigadoon. He becomes involved romantically with one of … Continue reading →

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March breezes through

Posted on March 5, 2018 by

Hello, everyone. This is a quick post to let you know about some of the upcoming events in the writing community of the Inland Northwest. Saturday and Sunday, March 10 and 11, some of the members of Spokane Authors and … Continue reading →

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Auntie’s Bookstore reading

Posted on January 7, 2018 by

This coming Friday evening, January 12, 2018, three of the contributors to the SASP anthology Celebrating Spokane Authors will read from their selections at Auntie’s Bookstore. The event begins at 7:00 p.m. at the store, located at 402 W. Main … Continue reading →

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How do you digest a 600+ page tome?

Posted on December 23, 2017 by

The answer: break it into a three-part series. That’s what J. R. R. Tolkein’s publishers did with Lord of the Rings, and it’s also what Kate Poitevin did with Saving Tir Gaeltacht. For those of you who don’t know Kate … Continue reading →

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Last Minute Shopping

Posted on December 14, 2017 by

This is for all of you who do last minute shopping. Kate Poitevin, Larry Danek, and I are doing a book signing and sale at Sticks & Dreams Gallery and Emporium this Saturday, Dec. 16, from noon until about 2 … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo Eve (a.k.a. Halloween)

Posted on October 31, 2017 by

The witching hour approaches, and novel writers around the globe prepare to immerse themselves in a Herculean effort to produce a novel in a single month. That’s the idea, anyway. National Novel Writing Month approaches. It sneaks up on unsuspecting … Continue reading →

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Creating believable characters

Posted on July 15, 2015 by

What makes a story great? Is it the plot? The research? The philosophy imparted to the reader? It is all these things, but the most important of all – the thing that makes a story stick in the mind – … Continue reading →

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