P.C. ZICK

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  • Author Wednesday – Marisella Veiga

    Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today, I welcome a dear friend. Marisella Veiga and I met in 2005 at a luncheon for networking women. There was only one spot left in the large room when I arrived. I sat down to a beautiful, dark-haired woman with a welcoming smile. “I’m Marisella Veiga, and I’m a writer,”…

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  • Real Life Seeps into #Fiction

    I’m often asked if real life seeps into my novels. As we head into the anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, I’ve thought about how much of my life seeped into the writing of Trails in the Sand. During April 2010, two significant manmade disasters occurred in the United States. Both…

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  • Book Review Friday – The Aviator’s Wife

    Last week, I reviewed Underground Angel by Dr. Sheryl White, which is an historical novel about the very real and heroic figure Laura Smith Haviland.  I recently read another historical novel about a real person, which again brought someone who seemed fictional into focus as an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances. The Aviator’s Wife by Melanie…

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  • Author Wednesday – Albert Isaac

    Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome author Albert Isaac who writes science fiction as well as humorous essays on life. His novels are Endless and its follow-up Utopia Revisited, which he recently published. In this novel, Astronaut Kyle Lucas Metheny becomes an unlikely savior when his experimental flight goes terribly wrong. He awakes in…

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  • Book Review Friday – Underground Angel

    Book Review Friday – Underground Angel

    Underground Angel by Sheryl D. White, Ph.D., touched my heart so many ways that I’m finding it difficult to begin this review. Dr. White deftly takes the historical figure, Laura Smith Haviland, and lovingly creates a novel depicting the life and times of a woman noted for her unwavering dedication to the abolition of slavery.…

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  • Author Wednesday – Sheryl White

    Welcome to Author Wednesday. It is with great pleasure that I introduce today’s author, Sheryl White. The subject of her work of historical fiction, Underground Angel, is close to my heart. Dr. White writes about the very real Laura Haviland who worked tirelessly in the 1800s for abolition, suffrage for women, and education for all…

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