Whew.
It seems like I have a lot to spread on the table in this post …
sort of like a Thanksgiving dinner. And, like said dinner, I’m
having trouble deciding where to start ….
How
about business, first? I will be participating in two online book
sales this weekend: One spans Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and
includes a bunch of Indie authors. The print version of my
book will be on sale on Friday; check here on Friday to see who else
is participating and maybe find something really nice! The other is a
smaller, exclusively Cyber Monday sale in which some of the Word
Painters will be marking their eBooks down to $2.99 each. So stop by
on Monday for more info!
Speaking
of Word Painters, you may be interested in a post I wrote there
recently: Encouraging Verses for the Writer.
And
now for the birthdays. The birthdays, to be precise, of some of my
favorite authors. It turns out the end of November is chock full of
them! Each of these authors has written at least one book that is on
my list of absolute favorites:
George
Eliot—Nov
22, 1819–Dec
22, 1880. Her 1876 novel Daniel Deronda, about a young man
seeking his identity and befriending some remarkable European Jews,
is high on my list.
John
Bunyan—Nov 28, 1628–Aug
31, 1688. Author of The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678). What more
can I say?
Louisa
May Alcott—Nov 29, 1832–Mar
6, 1888. I enjoy all her novels, but high up on my list are Little
Women (1868) and An Old-Fashioned Girl (1869).
C.
S. Lewis—Nov 29, 1898–Nov
22, 1963. The Chronicles of Narnia have been a part of my life
since I was I don’t know how young!
Mark
Twain—Nov 30, 1835–Apr
21, 1910. Twain’s skill with words always leaves me in awe. My
favorites by him are Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896),
quite high on my list, and The Innocents Abroad (1869), a
hilarious travel memoir.
L.
M. Montgomery—Nov 30, 1874–Apr
24, 1942. Montgomery is my favorite of these November authors. I love
every page her lyrical words are printed on, but the ones I love best
belong to her Anne of Green Gables novels, 1–6.
Which
of these authors are your
favorite(s)?
To
wrap up this post, I want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. I’m
thankful for these birthday-authors, I’m thankful for each of you
who read my blog, and I’m thankful to God for everything …
everything. I don’t want to sound trite, but He has blessed
me so much, and I can see that even the bad things always, somehow,
work out for good, especially when they are just to make me depend
more on my Lord.
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