About Tonette Joyce
Tonette was a once-fledgling lyricists-bookkeeper, turned cook/baker/restaurateur and is now exploring different writing venues,(with a stage play recently completed). She has had poetry and nonfiction articles published in the last few years. Tonette has been married to her only serious boyfriend for more than thirty years and she is, as one person described her, family-oriented almost to a fault. Never mind how others have described her, she is,(shall we say), a sometime traditionalist of eclectic tastes.She has another blog : "Tonette Joyce:Food,Friends,Family" here at WordPress.She and guests share tips and recipes for easy entertaining and helps people to be ready for almost anything.
This week we were asked: “You’re the headline speaker at a writers’ conference, and you need to submit a short bio for the program. What will you include?” I will never forget the first time that I had to submit … Continue reading →
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We’ve had not only authors as guests, but readers, narrators, editors, publishers and we’ve talked about all phases of writing work and enjoyment, so I decided to broaden the scope a bit this month. My guest today is Wyatt Schroeder, … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bedtime With Wyatt, blogging.Pearl City Reader, book reading, Doc Holiday, family, Gluten-free eating, Goodreads, Grandparents, homeschooling, Jesse james, LaVar Burton Reads, Pearl City Gamer, Reading Rainbow, reading videos, Violin, Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Schroeder
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“If you could have been the original author of any book, what would it have been and why?” I wracked my brain for a while on this one. I am without any question a bona fide bibliophile. I literally own … Continue reading →
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Tagged Billy Wilder, Chronicles of Narnia, John Ford, Liane Moriarty, Lord of the Rings, Rachel Joyce, Sarah Ballance's "Hawthorne", Sarahy Ballance, Stephen Spielberg
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Apparently I came up with the question: “What is in your desk drawers”? What ISN’T in my desk drawers? We have desks all over the house. I bought a little, dainty writing desk when we first got married and that … Continue reading →
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Tagged desk drawers, desks, school supplies, staionery supplies, supplies, writing supplies
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Last week while we were discussing the possibility of our works being translated into other languages, I said that I would like to bring up translating English to English, that is to say, “British” to “American”. I have read books … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bristish vs American English, British writers, Differences in English and American phrases, English as a second language, English phrases, Understanding accents
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“How do you feel about having one of your novels translated into another language?” Flattered, to begin with. However, I think that I would like to have an independent reader translate back to me what my work ended up saying … Continue reading →
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Tagged British phrasiology, cultural differnces, Hemingway, Idioms, Lost in Translation, translations
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I met Bishop O’Connell when we both commented on another author’s Facebook page. I had to ask him about his name since my husband graduated from Bishop O’Connell High School in Northern Virginia. It was not far from where I … Continue reading →
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Tagged An American Faerie Tale series, Bishop O'Connell, Gaelic, Irish language, The Forgotten, The Returned, The Stolen, Three Promises, Welsh Language
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Angie, the Tuesday Hound, asked: “Is there a book from your youth that you would love to have a copy of now?” I must have mentioned these before, since books have been a major part of my life. My mother … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bunny Hopwell's First Spring, Children writing books, Children's books, Favorite Books as a Child Finding favorite old books, Reading Children's books
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Have you ever gone to download a book and gotten the wrong one? Have you ever READ the wrong book? Somehow or another, as it happens, there two books that are very much alike on my Kindle account. I started … Continue reading →
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Tagged "Earth", "Moon", "Sun", English writers, MG books, Previously published works, Writing themes, YA books
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Get it? “Condensed” versions had ‘extra scenes’. EXTRA. I have read many a tedious book or parts that I skimmed through, (Elaine mentioned “War and Peace” earlier in the week; I could not have cared less from which direction Napoleon … Continue reading →
Posted in Anthologies, big plans, Books, collections, Compilations, decisions, editing, experiences, memories, Miscellaneous, novels, plots, publishing, Tonette Joyce, writing
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Tagged adding to stories, Editing stories, James Michener, James Michener's Centennial, Kelly's Book Club, Oprah Book club, Reader's Digest, Reader's Digest Condensed Books, Step[hen King, Writing Movies for Fun and Profit
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