The writer's life is solitary … only if you want it to be.Writing critique partnerships could solve creative isolation, but confusion on the topic abounds. Where do you find one? How do they work? How do you move past a bad experience?We're critique partners who, over the years, cultivated a process, redeemed our mistakes and maintained our friendship.Finders Keepers is our conversation analyzing six aspects of critique par...

Every person leaves a legacy; so does every character.Lonely outcasts. Found wanderers. Recovering addicts. War-weary heroes. Homeless families. Grieving loved ones. Good men—gone too soon.Each one's story stands alone, yet all unite along a common thread of dreams pursued and legacy left in this collection of short stories. One life flows into another as each character connects to the next.A person's past can deepen their future and their influence...

How can you live when you're dying? That's exactly what a wife and mom with a countdown clock would like to know.Carolina Burns faces words no one wants to hear. She's dying.She fights for her final year on earth—until she chooses to simply live. Her husband, Ben, and their eleven-year-old daughter, Rachael, must also accept her diagnosis. Their faith will be tested, and their bravery tried.Carolina writes letters to Rachael for all the life events ...

"Every day—no matter how bleak it seems—find one good thing for which to be thankful."Through a series of unsent letters to the sweetheart he left behind, Jack Calhoun unpacks his rage and grief and wrestles with questions of the soul like, "Who am I?" Rachael Burns, the girl he left, uses her journal to make sense of his abandonment.Jack escapes the guilt-filled confines of judgmental Bellum, Georgia, and embarks on a rocky path toward purpose. Wh...

Feel the pawprints on your heart as you read stories of gassy puppies, feral chickens and kittens in overcoats conducting life lessons on friendship and perseverance.In Animal Vignettes: True Stories of Friendship,award-winning indie author Joy E. Rancatore honors the pets that have made her a better human with their animal companionship. This collection of animal tales celebrates the bond between animals and people with candor, humor, soul and heart....

Feel the pawprints on your heart as you read stories of gassy puppies, feral chickens and kittens in overcoats conducting life lessons on friendship and perseverance.In Animal Vignettes: True Stories of Friendship,award-winning indie author Joy E. Rancatore honors the pets that have made her a better human. This collection of animal tales celebrates the bond between animals and people with candor, humor, soul and heart.From her earliest maybe-memor...