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Only I won’t be.

Here.

Because writing demands isolation. Solitude. Aloneness. To hear the voices.

For the next week, I will be immersed. On Edisto . Comparing earth to water to say. Walking. But not responding to comments. Or reading blogs.

I don’t know how to elaborate. Because anything I type comes off as bitchy. And I am not a bitch.Continue Reading

Andra Watkins Not Without My Father Back Cover

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Drowning. I’m drowning in books. Advance reader copies of Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444-Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace. I’m part of a crack team of crazies: publisher, publicist and author. We’re working together to get Not Without My Father covered everywhere on launch day – January 15, 2015!

I don’t think it’s fair for a bunch of strangers to read my book first. Not when so many of you were practically walking beside me on the Natchez Trace.

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Elizabeth Yon is the Empress of Creepy. Seriously. In her latest book Blackfern Girls (Bannerwing Books, 2014), she pulls four stories from the murk of the Johns Woods and splatters them across the page. The atmosphere embraces a reader. It’s almost hypnotic……until the characters squeeze.Continue Reading