Tag: books
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Honored to Serve: My Journey to the League of Utah Writers’ 2025 Volunteer of the Year Award
From first short story to Volunteer of the Year, discover how the League of Utah Writers shaped my author journey and inspired me to give back.
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2023 Reading Year in Review
Jodi L. Milner’s 2023 list of favorite reads, including her best read of the year.
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Winning the League of Utah Writer’s Diamond Quill Award
The annual awards banquet of the League of Utah Writers was held on a warm night in August. I’d attended this event every year for nearly a decade, applauding the winners of the various awards and enjoying the company of my favorite fellow writers. While I’d entered more categories this year than I had in…
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Cover Reveal – Stonebearer’s Betrayal
Each phase of the publishing process brings with it a mix of excitement and carefully controlled terror. Excitement springs from completing another step and coming that much closer to bringing your book baby into the world. Terror lurks around each turn, because there is always the possibility of something going wrong. Whoever compared creating a…
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Book of the Month – The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
When an author’s name keeps coming up over and over, at book clubs, at conferences, at critique groups, you know there is something special about what they create. Neil Gaiman is one of those authors. This month I explored his book, The Ocean at the End of the Lane. In this book, an unnamed middle-aged man…
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4th Quarter Reading, Done!
Here with only a few days left of 2014 I’m proud to report that I finished the last book of the year this morning at 2:45 am. Now I’m not saying that I stayed up reading all night, although I liked the last read enough that I could have – my youngest woke at 1:30…
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Fantasy Anthology 2015 by Xchyler Publishing
I am excited to announce that my short story Breath will be included in the yet to be named 2015 fantasy anthology published by Xchyler, a fun and unique Indie press. These guys know their stuff and it’s been a pleasure working with them. Their past anthology titles include: Terra Mechanica, a Steampunk Anthology: In an…
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2nd Quarter Reading – Done!
I’m happy to report that I’ve finished the second quarter reading with a few weeks to spare, namely because I fell in love with The Lovely Bones and read it in four days. The longest read from this quarter clocks in at a mind-boggling six weeks to finish Midnight’s Children. Here are this quarter’s books…
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Reading List for 2014
One of my resolutions is to read more books from the BBC Book List Challenge, specifically one book a month. As of today I’ve only read 27 of the 100 listed and there are some terrific books on there that I’ve been meaning to read. Here are the twelve that I’m planning on tackling this…