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The Reading Corner Newsletter January 2021 Happy New Year, Readers! Of all the things that got me through 2020, books were near the top of the list (add to that, Netflix). [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter December 2020 Greetings December 2020 looks very different this year at the Sweeney-Barclay household. We’re not foraging for the ceiling-scraping Christmas tree and adorning it with vintage [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter November 2020 Whew! We made it through the election and aftermath. I’ve been very distracted, and haven’t gotten as much writing in over the past month as [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter October 2020 Hello readers! As we spin deeper into fall, I hope you’re able to carve out time for balance from the 24/7 news cycle by getting [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter September 2020 Hello readers! We’re inching into fall, although it’s still glorious weather here in the Pacific Northwest. We never know when the curtain will come down [...]

Those Pesky Reviews About those pesky reviews. Reviews are the bane and the joy of every writer’s life, something we dread and crave at the same time. Oh, the highs when we [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter August 2020 Hello again Readers! Reflection: A year ago (seems like 10 years ago now), my husband asked me to carve out the month of July for [...]

Of Composition Notebooks and Number 2 Pencils Three black and white composition notebooks. Three dozen sharpened #2 pencils. Three weeks out on the water. Every July, this combination results in a multitude [...]

The Reading Corner Newsletter July 2020 Hello Readers! Welcome to my first newsletter! I aim to keep you informed of my professional life, with snippets of my personal life thrown in [...]

Nineteenth Century Armchair Travel Nonfiction—and especially narrative non-fiction—is the historical novelist’s secret weapon while researching. Well-written narratives take us back centuries where the American West lives on in aura and story. Whether [...]