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Sheila Blanchette

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Born

March 06

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Fiction, Contemporary

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Sheila Blanchette bounced around in various accounting jobs for almost thirty years until she found herself working in a cubicle and on the verge of a nervous breakdown. To keep her sanity, she began working on her first novel, The Reverse Commute, a roman a clef about a woman in a cubicle daydreaming of running a bed and breakfast. Writing saved her life.

After her youngest daughter left for college, she and her husband sold their house in N.H. and moved to Florida where she wrote Take Me Home but like her character Josie Wolcott, she still found herself crunching numbers to pay the bills.

Two years later, in a surprising twist of fate, the Blanchettes landed a job as innkeepers in Northwestern, CT. This may be a case of, If you write it, it ...more

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	The Reverse Commute 3.05 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under The Same Sun 4.20 avg rating — 35 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life Is All This 3.56 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Take Me Home really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Guide to Cockatiel Care and Ownership: Proven Advice for New Owners on Cage Selection, Dietary Needs, Emotional Health, Training, and Breeding Cockatiels by Lesa Boutin (Goodreads Author), Sheila Blanchette (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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FLYING DURING A PANDEMIC

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost It all began sometime in early March. At least that’s when we started to pay attention but we now know, since listening to the Bob Woodward tapes, that Trump knew how deadly … Continue reading FLYING DURING A PANDEMIC Read more of this blog post »

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Less (Arthur Less, #1)

by Andrew Sean Greer

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A Divided Duty

by Carol White

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Commonwealth

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Sheila’s Quotes

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.”
― kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

tags: bad-reviews, critics, literary-criticism, reviewers, writing

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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone”
― John Updike

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“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“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.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.”
― Stephen King

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