JUNE GILLAM
Novelist, Poet, Gorilla Girl
Your Horoscope Sign Points to the Books for You
Perfect for Shelter-in-Place Readers. Find out what authors sharing your Sun Sign have written. In Play Among the Stars, check out your zodiac sign to find the books your horoscope “twin” wrote.
Mystery & Memoir? Ann Saxton Reh Links the Genres
Gorilla Girl enjoyed interviewing Ann as August's Author of the Month and learning how she weaves together mystery and memoir from faraway places. Meditating Murder is the first book in her series featuring David Markam, a Foreign Service Officer with the State...
Writing the August Heat
A few quotes serve us as prompts on this first hot day of August: "When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person." -Aimee Friedman, Sea Change "The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire."...
Writing in Wet Clay
Too hot to work up a writing sweat? Let these suggestions roll around in your mind, like ice cubes in a tall drink of inspiration. If you feel like it. Leos I have known A surprise invitation Earth seen from afar If you get anything you'd like posted here, shoot me a...
Can Hillary save her daughter & Sacramento’s new community center?
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Hot Romance
Around the 21st of June in the northern hemisphere the summer solstice occurs, when the sun reaches its highest point of the year at the Tropic of Cancer, giving us our longest day. One more week of spring, but feels like the heat is on. What can you get in 30 minutes...
Writing Alone in a Group
Considering summer as hot iron balls we can neither embrace nor let go, what can you make of these prompts in a half hour or so? 1. Space travel 2. The temperatures of friendship 3. Junebugs 4. Outdoor grills As always, Reply with a Comment if you'd like to share or...
Time to Grow Generous Souls
When summer arrives, or anytime really, it's time to relax, refresh and be who we really are, as our featured author would have us be. Betsy Schwarzentraub’s Growing Generous Souls was released in summer and the first question I asked her was “What is the book’s key...
Got writing on your mind?
Fingers itching to write? Need an entry line? 1. When my parents met . . . 2. Summertime, when the living is . . . 3. I used to ... , but now I . . . Take a half hour and let it rip. See what you get. --jg aka gg
A May Day Basket of Stories
For the month of May, we welcome Elizabeth Varadan and her basket of literary delights for all ages. Author of four books, she writes fiction, poetry and travel pieces. Her shorter works for children have appeared in StoryFriends, LadyBug, and Skipping Stones, while...