Tag: books
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The People Who Inspired the Characters: “The Edge of Nowhere”
Today is National Aunts and Uncles Day, so today today I honor my aunts and uncles and thank them for being a huge part of the person I have become.
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BE “IN THE KNOW”
Victoria Hastings Harrison Green is 28 and widowed with nine children in the midst of the worst natural disaster to ever hit American Soil — the 1930s Oklahoma Dust Bowl. Is there anything she won’t do to feed her children? Is there anything ANY parent wouldn’t do to feed their children?
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Book Review: Go Set a Watchman
Anyone who knows even the tiniest thing about me knows that Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is, in my opinion, the best book ever written. In too many ways to even try counting, the themes contained within its pages have shaped me into the person I am today. The idea of “walking around in someone…
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El Reno, Oklahoma Welcomes President Obama!
Though the names have changed and the times are better, they’re still the same people depicted in my novel, The Edge of Nowhere, and the way the residents represented our town yesterday makes me doubly proud to have set my novel in this wonderful town.
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THE EDGE OF NOWHERE
The story of a young woman’s courage in the face of unrelenting adversity. Inspired by actual events. Coming this January by Penner Publishing.
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Why Amazon May Decide Not to Post Your Book Review
So…here’s my tangent today and I’d like to share it with all of you. Yesterday I noticed a post on my Facebook feed about a petition to prevent Amazon from arbitrarily deciding not to post book reviews based upon their belief that the reviewer might know the author. What this means is that if you…
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The Stories Behind the Story: The Edge of Nowhere Part III
Last night I returned to Minnesota after a long trip back to Oklahoma for a family reunion. The timing of my trip was impeccable as I’m currently in the final editing stages of my book, The Edge of Nowhere, which is expected to be released this Spring by Penner Publishing. This novel was inspired by my grandmother’s…
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Book Review: Bully – A Fall Away Novel by Penelope Douglas
A couple of years ago I read a book by Colleen Hoover entitled Hopeless. It was the first title I’d ever read in the new category dubbed as “New Adult.” It was a cross between Young Adult Fiction, with characters in their late teens, and Adult Fiction because it included themes that were a bit…
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Book Review: The Mapmaker’s Children
Several weeks ago I entered a raffle for a free copy of Sarah McCoy‘s newest novel, The Mapmaker’s Children. I’d never heard of McCoy, but the premise of her novel looked interesting. It implied the intersecting of a Civil War-era Abolitionist woman and a modern-day woman who moves to a small town with a significant…
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2015 Lawton Chautauqua (June 16-20)
If you’ve followed my website at all recently, then you know that my upcoming novel, The Edge of Nowhere, follows the story of a widowed mother of ten children struggling to survive through the 1930s Oklahoma Dust Bowl. But what was the Dust Bowl, really? The Lawton Public Library in Lawton, Oklahoma is hosting a…
C.H. Armstrong Books 