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Facebook Launch: March 20, 6pm PST
I am trying something new. I've read about it. I've thought about it. And now I'm going to do it. It's an online book launch through Facebook. How did I do it? I set up an event on my Facebook page: WL Hawkin Author Page Then invited friends. Now, I'm inviting you....
Friday: Words from Faerie
Here it is St. Patrick's Day, and me with no words from Faerie. Tragic and ironic, that is. I decided, under the circumstances, it was best to let my Irish witch speak. This is a scene from To Charm a Killer. Maggie's just been packed off to Ireland for safe keeping...
Book Thieves Just Did Something Remarkable
Three book thieves just completed an incredible heist. As my British readers may already know, some of the most expensive and rare books in the entire world were stolen from a London warehouse this… Source: Book Thieves Just Did Something Remarkable
Friday: Words from Faerie — Coole Park
I think of Yeats often these days. Perhaps, I conjure him in the dreamtime and we meet in hazy green fields beyond time and place. He is one of my muses and seeps into my work. When we visited the ruins of Lady Augusta Gregory's estate at Coole Park in Gort, Ireland,...
Friday: Words from Faerie
More and more, I feel the need to go to a free and magical isle, whether in spirit or on foot. The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a...
The Revenant: from Novel to Film
Revenant: a person who has returned especially, supposedly, from the dead (Oxford Dictionary) Hugh Glass, does not die, but comes close, when he is brutally mauled by a mother grizzly on a bank of the Grand River in 1823. A fur trapper with the Rocky Mountain Fur...