Reading the Professor’s letters

Reading the Professor’s letters

Reading the Professor’s letters

As some of you may already know, I have been reading (with great joy) from The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. His letters to family and friends and agents and publishers has been such a grand look-inside to a master’s writing life. Highly, recommend it. Also, as I read, I find that he penned many short stories and novelettes that filled the publishers’ book lists while he wrote the next book in his Lord of the Ring series. One such book is this one. Written for children ages 2-6. If you are a collector, as I am, you might

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Keeping up with the others

Keeping up with the others

I know, I know. I have spent way too much time on the internet and way too little time writing. But in my defense, I am in the throes of pre-publication over here! It is a hard task to get a book ready for the reading public, but it is even harder to get it actually out there to them. I am making lists and checking them twice trying to be fair and play sort of nice. HEHE. I did just make a joke. I finished my short story yesterday, and that will be available soon as a free download

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