Susan M. Toy is not only an excellent author, but also a stalwart promoter of other self-published authors. Her recommendations for blogs to follow thus carry a great deal of weight with me, as do her Reading Recommendations. Thanks for the great suggestions, Susan!
These past few years (2015 and 2014), I’ve wrapped up twelve months of blogging by listing my favourite bloggers who I have subscribed to and read, and whose blogs I believe would be of inter…
Source: Best Bloggers Blogging in 2016!
I thought the article below would be a good way of saying:
“Very few countries in the world are offering such a welcoming and generous climate for authors and publishers than Canada. Benefits for Canadian literature starts already with free ISBN’s in Canada:
The Government of Canada is committed to ensure that readers everywhere have opportunities to connect with a broad range of Canadian-authored books by providing funding and support to the Canadian book industry, professional writers, Canadian periodicals and small publishers (You!).”
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Read more about funding available to Canadians at (Source): Savvy Book Writers
(P.S., The above blog has some excellent suggestions for authors on many topics!)
P.P.S.: Submissions for the 2017 CBC Literary Prize for Short Stories are being accepted from September 1–October 31, 2016. The submission fee is $25. Congratulations to David Huebert, author of “Enigma”, for winning the 2016 Award. Read or listen to his short story HERE
Gretchen Grossman, whose memoir Ring Around the Rosary I gave a five-star review and a “Connie’s Pick” recommendation, has provided some information about herself and her life on Chris The Story Reading Ape’s blog. Meet the author and find out how she came to write her memoir by reading the post. (Lots of interesting pictures are included.)
If you haven’t already read the book, you’ll want to after reading this article!
My name is Gretchen Grossman Mobley. I wrote Ring Around The Rosary, The Memoir Of A Girl, A Nun, A Wife, And A Mother.
I used the name Gretchen Grossman on my memoir cover because I didn’t necessarily want former students reading my book. Also I recognized that the alliteration of my maiden name looked attractive on the cover.
I taught school in inner-city Chicago and several other smaller cities. I taught in private, parochial, public, and magnet schools, preschool through 8th grade but mostly 6th grade, everything from ESL to art, music, humanities, and the regular curriculum. Such a tremendous amount of labor, I was pretty much like a workhorse, but a happy workhorse. Still, I’m surprised I survived.
I knew that students loved performance art and because I’m a kid at heart I too love performance art. Since it was critical for me to be happy every single day…
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