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Alison Acheson
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BLUE HOURS – a new book, an adult direction
Today is May 1, 2025, book birthday for Blue Hours.
After decades of writing for young people, and publishing short fiction and memoir for adult readers, I’ve published a novel for adults with the wonderful publishing house Freehand Books.
Those two figures on the cover, on a beach in the evening, mountains in background, in the blue hour of the day, are father and son. You can see the motion i
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Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS
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2019
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A Little House in a Big Place
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Mud Girl
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2006
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Grandpa's Music: A Story About Alzheimer's
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2009
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Molly's Cue
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2010
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The Cul-de-Sac Kids
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2012
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Grandpa's Music (AV2 Fiction Readalong)
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2013
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Blue Hours
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Learning to Live Indoors
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1998
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Thunder Ice
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1996
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What makes us connect with the handful, even just one or two, real friends we have--those we have for life? Shared experiences. Timing. And at times, pieces we can't put words to. The friendship central to this story begins in the raw years of college ...more |
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"A little slow to start, but soon enough deeply engaging.
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"I appreciate Turner's approach to Julian's work--he admits up front that he's writing this book as much to figure out what he really thinks about her theology as to explain that theology to anyone else. I think he does an admirable job of both, parti"
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Even After Everything is so beautifully written--many sentences I had to pause and re-read and slow. For me, its real power was in the sharing of the workings and turnings of the liturgical year. As an ex-Pentecostal, now Anglican, who is only being i ...more |
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Of all the books I've read in my book club over the past five years, THIS is the one that stands out. It's so beautifully written, with a strong poetic voice. I appreciated the way Omar made his way through the nightmare of the Taliban, how he learne ...more |
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“Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one out when it's done and forget it, start another, and keep on writing for joy. Words I now live by. Welwyn Wilton Katz”
― The Third Magic
― The Third Magic
“Rosalind Porter: As a writer, how important do you feel it is to engage with the digital revolution?
Margaret Atwood: I don’t think it’s important. If I do it, it’s because of my insatiable curiosity. But people are trying to pile stuff onto authors, like you have to have a blog, you have to have this, you have to have that. Various party tricks. You actually don’t. I would say that having done it, the blogging and Tweeting and so forth reaches possibly a different kind of reader than the kind you may have been used to hearing from. But an author’s job is to concentrate on the writing, and once the writing is finished what you essentially do is throw it into a bottle and heave it into the sea, and that’s the same for any method of dissemination. There’s still a voyage between the text and the unknown reader; the book will still arrive at the door of some readers who don’t understand it – who don’t like it. It will still find some readers who hopefully do, and the process is still a scattergun approach.”
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Margaret Atwood: I don’t think it’s important. If I do it, it’s because of my insatiable curiosity. But people are trying to pile stuff onto authors, like you have to have a blog, you have to have this, you have to have that. Various party tricks. You actually don’t. I would say that having done it, the blogging and Tweeting and so forth reaches possibly a different kind of reader than the kind you may have been used to hearing from. But an author’s job is to concentrate on the writing, and once the writing is finished what you essentially do is throw it into a bottle and heave it into the sea, and that’s the same for any method of dissemination. There’s still a voyage between the text and the unknown reader; the book will still arrive at the door of some readers who don’t understand it – who don’t like it. It will still find some readers who hopefully do, and the process is still a scattergun approach.”
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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Prayer
― Prayer
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written, but I know it’s true. If I had a nickel for every person who ever told me he/she wanted to become a writer but “didn’t have time to read,” I could buy myself a pretty good steak dinner. Can I be blunt on this subject? If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in … Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in … Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered anyway.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
