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Karon Luddy
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Spelldown: The Big-Time Dreams of a Small-Town Word Whiz
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published
2007
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5 editions
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Bewilderment of Boys
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2014
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2 editions
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Because You Asked: an answer in eight parts
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Q & A with Karon Luddy
Was there something that prompted the story for your second novel Bewilderment of Boys?
Yes. A few months after my first novel Spelldown was published, my photographer friend Erin Hubbs sent me a photo of a handsome teenage boy and a cute teenage girl sitting on opposite sides of a spewing fountain glancing sideways at each other. When I read the caption—Karlene and Billy Ray Sighting—I broke out Read more of this blog post »
Yes. A few months after my first novel Spelldown was published, my photographer friend Erin Hubbs sent me a photo of a handsome teenage boy and a cute teenage girl sitting on opposite sides of a spewing fountain glancing sideways at each other. When I read the caption—Karlene and Billy Ray Sighting—I broke out Read more of this blog post »
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
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“Art is not to throw light but to be light...”
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“Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.”
― The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
― The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
“Oh, the things I haven’t seen and the things I haven’t known,
What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown,
And yanked both ways by my mother and my father,
With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?"
With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be but just what I am?”
― Collected Poems
What with hedges and ditches till after I was grown,
And yanked both ways by my mother and my father,
With a "Which would you better?" and a "Which would you rather?"
With him for a sire and her for a dam,
What should I be but just what I am?”
― Collected Poems
“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
― The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
