I love our town square and at Christmas it is such a magical place. Our parks department does an incredible job of stringing lights thru the square and transforms the small park into a Christmas scene worthy of any Hallmark card.
Last night the oldest accompanied me to a Mistletoe Mixer that our Main Street association held. It was lovely; great food and good conversation. I even put a bid in on an item in the silent auction. I hope I win, but one of the local radio deejays was also interested in this snowman painting and could have outbid me at the last. I had to leave before the auction closed.
Tonight, hubby and I are headed to another event on the square. It is a dinner to raise funds for the museum they are creating in a restored church at the entrance to the 'downtown' area. I had planned on taking the other daughter as the hubby was supposed to be out of town for work still. But, he drove home last night! Excited we can attend together
Hope your Christmas gatherings are joyful and fun......ours sure are shaping up to be just that this year!
Oh, and my Library Board Term.......three years!
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: book review request by award-winning author
Dear Liz,
I'm an award-winning author with a new YA book out this fall. Ugly To Start With is a series of thirteen interrelated stories about childhood being published by West Virginia University Press.
Can I interest you in reviewing it?
If you write me back at johnmcummings@aol.com, I can email you a PDF of my book. If you require a bound copy, please ask, and I will forward your reply to my publisher. Or you can write directly to Abby Freeland at:
Abby.Freeland@mail.wvu.edu
My publisher, I should add, can also offer your readers a free excerpt of my book through a link from your blog to my publisher's website:
http://wvupressonline.com/cummings_ugly_to_start_with_9781935978084
Here’s what Jacob Appel, celebrated author of
Dyads and The Vermin Episode, says about my new collection: "In Ugly to Start With, set in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, Cummings tackles the challenges of boyhood adventure and family conflict in a taut, crystalline style that captures the triumphs and tribulations of small-town life. He has a gift for transcending the particular experiences to his characters to capture the universal truths of human affection and suffering--emotional truths that the members of his audience will recognize from their own experiences of childhood and adolescence.”
My short stories have appeared in more than seventy-five literary journals, including North American Review, The Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Twice I have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. My short story "The Scratchboard Project" received an honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007.
I am also the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel The Night I Freed John Brown (Philomel Books, Penguin Group, 2009), winner of The Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers (Grades 7-12) and one of ten books recommended by USA TODAY.
For more information about me, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Cummings
Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Kindly,
John Michael Cummings
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