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Writer’s Boot Camp

Or should that be Writer’s Book Camp? Students from Veritas school in Newberg arranged for me to speak one afternoon of their week-long writing intensive. What a fun group of kids. I believe all of them were going into 8th or 9th grade, and belong to a critique group together at one time or another. […]

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Christy Award Nomination?!?

This morning, Mom ran up the stairs demanding, in a VERY excited voice, me to tell her what I had been hiding from her. “What? What are you talking about?” “You don’t know? You’ve been nominated for the Christy Award!!” As frugal as we writers are to be with our exclamation points, that’s an exclamation […]

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Reading: Is It an Addiction?

Hi, my name is Christina Berry, and I’m addicted to reading. [all of you]: Hi, Christina. You are in a safe place here. Seriously. Despite finishing two editing jobs in as many days, I managed to read The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. This is definitely an R-rated book, with one sexual situation that really […]

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And How Quickly I Fall!

Back into undisciplined posting, that is. Sixty out of sixty-one days on the tour, I believe, and then three posts since? I’m pitiful! Lately I’m behind because of subbing (wood shop, PE, and band were the latest), doing tons of paperwork for a financial thing, virtual paper work for my divine new agent, and beating […]

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