A Moment's Surrender Book Review | Novel by John Burt

Explore John Burt’s novel A Moment's Surrender. A quiet literary drama of grief, hidden truths, and ethical choices set against the 1980 Sierra Nevada landscape.

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Poetry for Kids: Haiku using Japanese Art - Pragmatic Mom

This is a unit that my children did in elementary school. Write haiku poems using Japanese art as inspiration.

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Smashwords Sale Ends July 31!

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#BookReview: The Immigrant and the Outlaw by Joy Neal Kidney

My Review Joy Neal Kidney’s latest book, The Immigrant and the Outlaw, is a book about making and maintaining connections—to the natural world; to our family members and ancestors; to our memories of lived experience and our history; to our country and community; to people in need.  The experience of reading the book brought  home to me just how important these connections are.

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Book Tour and Review: Orbital Drop: A Union Empire Novel by Steve J. McHugh

Explore the thrilling universe of Orbital Drop, the first book in the Union Empire series by Steve J. McHugh. Adventure awaits you.

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#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 73, bussokuseki, 7/14/26

Hi! Welcome back to #TankaTuesday. Let’s write syllabic poetry together! Hello everyone! I’m back again this week. Summer is always a busy time and many of our hosts are on vacation or …

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Library Fun!

Mt. Lafayette, White Mountains, New Hampshire Summertime for Me & Library Fun! Greetings! I hope you're all having a good summer (Or winter in the Southern Hemisphere.) July is high summer in Northern New England. I'm trying to squeeze every ounce of enjoyment of it I can—every if it's just keeping the windows in my study open and looking out at the lush green trees from time to time.

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Tales From the Irish Garden: The Missing Pieces by Sally Cronin @sgc58

A heartwarming collection that celebrates healing, hope, friendship, and the quiet magic found in compassion. Sally Cronin has created a timeless sanctuary readers will gladly revisit again and again.

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Book Design Portfolio

Book design portfolio featuring trade layouts, photography books, children’s titles, and music‑notation projects designed under Wild Arancini Press.

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July Book Reviews! #TerryTyler #SylviaKayRose #LindaBroday #EstherMoonstomp #bookreviews #mustread #writingcommunity

Here are the books I read and reviewed in June that are four or five-star reads! Jess’s Reckoning: (Book 3 Sweet Western Romance) The McIntyres By Linda Broday I have read the first two books…

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Sunday Book Review – When Things Go Missing by Deborah Brasket

Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. Today I’m reviewing Deborah Brasket’s – When Things Go Missing. This book is a story about a mom who leaves home to go to the store – and d…

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Call-and-Response Poetry Reading: “Songs for the People”

Image: Library of Congress Substack Call-and-Response From time to time, I will create a call-and-response post, when a post on a WordPress blog prompts me to respond with a post of my own. For today's post, I am responding to a post on the Substack site Verbihund Café, written by Kate Morgan Reade. (If you're on Substack, and have an interest in…

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Smorgasbord Summer Book Fair – #Children’s #Bathtime Sue Wickstead, #Rhymes #cats Cheryl Spears, #Easter #Hoglets Lynette Creswell, #Mystery #Dragons Esther Moonstomp

The first children’s book today is the delightful David’s Bathtime Adventure by Sue Wickstead   About the book David loves his bath time! As Mum fills the bath with water, David gets hi…

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The Smashwords Sale Is On!

The ebooks for my two novels are half-price for the entire month of July!

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June 2026 - Flash Fiction Online

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Smorgasbord Posts from Your Archives 2026 – Posts from last six months of 2025 – #Poetry #Tanka Love at First Sight by Gwen Plano

Welcome to the  series of Posts from Your Archives for 2026 and I will be sharing posts from the SECOND six months of 2025 from your archives which I will select. This series is now closed but ther…

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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine Weekly Round Up – June 15th – 21st – Blogger Meet Up, Big Band, Chart toppers, Cuisine Pakistan, Book Review, Summer Book Fair, Funnies

Welcome to the round up of posts you might have missed this week on Smorgasbord. I hope you have enjoyed your week so far… it has certainly thrown up one or two surprises for us. One being th…

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Sunday Book Review – Two Graves by Terry Tyler – Book 3 in the Revenge series – #novella

Welcome to my Sunday Book Review. I couldn’t wait to sink my eyes into Terry Tyler’s latest book in her Revenge series trilogy. Revenge can be sweet, but you may be taking yourself alon…

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“At the Poor Farm: Carmi”

I'm thrilled and humbled by Nigel Bynn's reading and analysis of a companion poem to The Weight of Snow and Regret I recently wrote: "At the Poor Farm: Carmi." If you have a few moments, I'd love for you to check it out.

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#BookReview: Virtuous Women by Ann Golz

AmazonBarnes & NobleBookshop My Review Ann Goltz’s Virtuous Women opens with a church scene, as toddler Benjamin wriggles out of his seventeen-year-old sister Hope’s arms and bolts for the door. Hope goes after him, pleading with him to behave, so he can avoid their father’s belt across his back. This scene is emblematic of the world of the evangelical Church of the Covenant into which Hope was born.

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Smorgasbord Book Promotions 2026 – Share an Excerpt – Boost one of your books – #Supernatural #Paranormal #Thriller Five-Toed Tigress by T.W. Dittmer

In this regular series for 2026, you are invited to share an excerpt of 400 to 500 words from any book you have written you would like to give a boost to. This feature is for any author who has bee…

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