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A peek into A Garden of Shadows
I have exciting news brewing to share very soon, but in the meantime, I thought I would give my subscribers a first glimpse into A Garden of Shadows…
Amy
Feb 22
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December 2022
A step into the wilderness.
“Always in the big woods, when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with feelings of curiosity and…
Amy
Dec 30, 2022
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Wished on the morning star?
I woke this morning, winter solstice, with this song in my head and the overwhelming need to get somewhere to watch the sunrise. As I dressed in warm…
Amy
Dec 21, 2022
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November 2022
Hope in the Darkness
I originally wrote you a lovely long post about the experience of finishing my second book. There were references to articles about the “curse of the…
Amy
Nov 28, 2022
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October 2022
Is it nostalgia?
Our little pocket of the Goldstream Valley sits above the temperamental O’Connor Creek. Sometimes it is a trickle, sometimes a raging torrent that chews…
Amy
Oct 31, 2022
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Reckoning with the Past
To honor Indigenous Peoples Day, I am re-publishing a section from the very first newsletter about The Voyage of the Pleiades. One of the issues I…
Amy
Oct 10, 2022
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September 2022
What Makes a Good Mystery?
One aspect of The Voyage of the Pleiades and the new book A Garden of Shadows, that I haven’t written much about is that they are both murder mysteries…
Amy
Sep 5, 2022
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August 2022
A Pause
For those of you who might have missed it, I had a fifty-word story appear in the latest issue of Blink-Ink. No, you can’t read the issue online, it is…
Amy
Aug 30, 2022
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The Heartbreaks and Joys of Publishing
This week I reach the milestone of querying my book for a year. I thought it might be useful to share with you what exactly that means and why you…
Amy
Aug 12, 2022
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July 2022
The Magic of Plants
If it hasn’t been obvious from the subject and excerpts I have shared from The Voyage of the Pleiades, plants are a huge part of the book. Not…
Amy
Jul 22, 2022
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June 2022
On reading aloud
I thought I would take advantage of the new feature on Substack and offer a recording of me reading a letter from the Voyage of the Pleiades. I hope…
Amy
Jun 28, 2022
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May 2022
Gear Up!
A table read.
Amy
May 16, 2022
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