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Cassandra Rankin

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Nonfiction, Memoir, Christian

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Harper Lee, Sue Monk Kidd, Wally Lamb, Larry McMurtry

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Cassandra Rankin proudly calls Alaska home. She her husband raise their children on a little farm in Alaska which boasts an ever changing clump of animals and 4-H projects.

In 2014, after publishing her first book, Cassandra won first place for Inspirational writing in the 83rd annual world-wide writing contest for Writer's Digest magazine. You can also find her pieces and her photos in Cirque, a literary journal for the north Pacific Rim. Her blog, This Crazy Little Farm (www.thiscrazylittlefarm.blog) is where she writes her heart out as her job and the farm chores allow.

Annie Spruce was Cassandra's first book. She pecks away at her second, This Crazy Little Farm, but she may be an old lady before she finishes. Her farm friends understand. ...more

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Cassandra Rankin My brain is always spinning...turning...whirling...some new tidbit or lesson is always forming as a bit of a nugget of what I learned today. The one b…moreMy brain is always spinning...turning...whirling...some new tidbit or lesson is always forming as a bit of a nugget of what I learned today. The one being born in my head right this minute is how important our deep and life-long friendships are to our emotional and spiritual growth and how much they affect our day-to-day functioning.

As for BIG work...after the process of publishing Annie Spruce, I think I may have gotten over being a chicken enough to try and publish a second book.

I might still be too chicken to talk about it out loud though. :)(less)
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Sometimes too much time can go by and every passing minute and every passing hour and every passing day… hope gets smaller and smaller. So when the sow labored in vain and our prayers weren’t answered the way we wanted them to be, the hope got small and the tension got big. She tired and […]
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message 2: by Cassandra
Apr 28, 2015 12:22PM

Cassandra Rankin Let the mailing begin! Sending ten copies of Annie Spruce to nine different states starting TODAY! What FUN this giveaway was! Thank you to each of the 606 who entered...makes an indie feel welcomed and loved. Congrats to the winners, this was so much fun, I'll do another one soon I promise :)

Annie Spruce, The Dog That Didn't Die by Cassandra Rankin


message 1: by Cassandra
Apr 24, 2015 10:48PM

Cassandra Rankin Cannot WAIT to see who wins the ten free copies of Annie Spruce when Goodreads draws on Monday! Make sure your name is in the hat!

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