Dear Friends and Readers:

I hope this message finds you well and enjoying spring.

I want to share with you some good news: An essay I wrote about my father, war and me has been chosen winner of the 2016 New Millennium Writings Award for Nonfiction.

You can read the essay HERE.

And feel free to share the link with anyone you think might enjoy reading it.

Thank you, and have a great day,

Carol

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Hello all!

The Inkshares blog has a new post where we talk about our "dream cast" for our books. It took me a while to come to my final selections, but by no means should you let this restrict your imagination of what these characters look like. This is just one possibility and, in reality, probably none of these actors would agree to be in a film version of this book ;)

I’m concerned that I’m still not getting any new reviews for the book, so rather than just beg, I’m going to build a three-legged stool for why you should review my book: 

1. It’s easy. Just click "Read more" under the first chapter, then click the "Leave a Review" link on the bottom of the screen. Then start typing. 
2. Not only are you entered in a raffle to win a free shirt, you get a warm and fuzzy feeling inside for helping me out. ;)
3. You would be helping me out tremendously. People look to reviews to see if a book is worth their time at all, so they are extremely important. 

I know it’s asking a lot of you to not only take the time to read three chapters of a book, but to also put forth the effort to write a review, so I understand your hesitation. At the same time, it’s critical for the book and I would owe you one. I certainly don’t want to tell you how to write a review, so here’s just one book with two short and sweet reviews as an example.  

Prefer to read a PDF? Well here then (the first three chapters plus a bonus chapter). Better get it fast, it’s only available for a couple days. Right now "First on Mars" has about 40 readers and 1 review. Don’t make me hunt down each and every one of you until you review this book! (metaphorically speaking)

Thanks again for your support!