Five days of prizes, and not just one or two, but multiple chances for prizes everyday. We drew names right and left, some people won more than once, because – yeah, we appreciate our loyal followers enough to roll like that. However, some of you busy people haven’t gotten around to claiming your prizes. Horrors!!!!
Unclaimed prizes are as follows:
#4 – Nonni Biscotti –  Alice Anderson
The Wealthy Barber, Everyone’s Common Sense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent by David Chilton – Jean W
1 GB USB Drive – Nancy Northcott
On Writing by Stephen King – Emily Sewell
Gift Basket from Susan May containing various bath [...]

REDEEMING LOVE
By:  Francine Rivers
Publisher: Multnomah Books
ISBN-13: 978-1601420619
 Best-selling author Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea in a tale set against the exciting backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel’s life to draw her into the Savior’s redeeming love. This remarkable novel has sold over a million copies globally and has been a fixture on the CBA bestsellers list for nearly a decade.
 This book was true to its genre, Inspirational.  This is a [...]

Up In The Air
Starring: George Clooney, Anna Kendrick
Directed by: Jason Reitman (Thank You For Not Smoking, Juno)
Awards: Numerous, including Golden Globe
Running Time: 1 hr. 49 min.
Link to Trailer: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3344040473/
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Adaptation
MPAA Rating:  R for language and some sexual content
Blurb: Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
 In terms of flowing water, this movie is more like a steadily moving mountain stream, rather than Niagara Falls, [...]

 
Bunco Babes Gone Wild
By Maria Geraci
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN-13: 978-0425229965
What happens when you combine twelve women, a handful of dice, some gossip, and lots of frozen drinks? A rip-roaring good time!
Georgia Meyer arrives in Whispering Bay, Florida, to visit her sister, Frida, and in desperate need of some time to think. She is currently the CFO of a major electronics company in Birmingham, Alabama, and is dating the company boss, Spencer Moody. For their five year anniversary dinner, Georgia is expecting a proposal and a ring. Understandable after five years together. Instead, she receives a calculator. An expensive calculator, but still. So [...]

Inspiration!!!
Following is a passage about writing novels from “The Lacuna,” by Barbara Kingsolver.
The Setup: Lev Trotsky to Harrison Shepherd when he comes in the office late one evening and discovers his secretary banging at a typewriter.
“…What business could keep you so late in headquarters!”
“I’m sorry, sir,” says Shepherd, as he gathers up the pages and puts them in a folder. “It’s nothing that will liberate the people.”
Trotsky waits for more.
“Sir, I’m reluctant to say.”
“Some secret report to the adversary?”
“Please don’t suggest such an awful thing.”
 What, then? A love letter?”
“It’s more embarrassing than that, sir. A novel.”
“A Novel! Why do you [...]

Inspiration!!!
  From Maxine Davis – – – -
 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
More funny T. S. Eliot quotes 
 
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 The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
More funny Mark Twain quotes 
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A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
More funny Ring Lardner quotes
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 It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
More funny Andrew Jackson quotes
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 A [...]

Inspiration!!!
Carol Burnside’s favorite PF&HT quote from 2009 comes from author Stephanie Bond in her March 30th interview. Stephanie said:
All we can do is make the best decisions we can with the best information we have at that time and place. And learn how to rebound, reinvent, and regroup. Remember—people who seem to move through life with confidence aren’t confident about the outcome of a decision; they’re confident that they can deal with the outcome, good or bad.
Tami Brothers received the following quote from her weekly Note from the Universe e-mail from www.tut.com.    
 “It only takes one idea, one second in [...]