John Green Delivers Quality YA
Back Cover Blurb: Who is the real Margo? Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious...
Fan of Fangirl
"A deliciously warm-hearted nerd power ballad, destined for greatness.”-- NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS Back Cover Blurb:Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath it's something more. Fandom is life. It's what got her and her sister,...
Charles Martin Delivers Art in Writing Craft and Story
https://youtu.be/0g61Qf_ULgI Sometimes Martin's secondary characters are so quirky and loveable that you want to meet them. He also serves up plenty of adventure--epic journeys, plane crashes, evil to be thwarted. Martin is always a great read!
Marissa de los Santos Books: Lyrical and True
https://youtu.be/J4io0jI_YZs Marissa de los Santos' writing is truly art, yet so relatable.
Stephen King wrote something besides horror!
https://youtu.be/Vh3zuZC73Fc Check out his memoir, Stephen King On Writing!
BOOK SHOTS: Prince Harry’s Spare
Prince Harry's Memoir: Worth Reading Reading this book is a guilty pleasure—about being royal from the particularly mum monarchy!
BOOK SHOTS: Lian Dolan’s Elizabeth the First Wife
All Lian Dolan's books are top notch! Elizabeth the First Wife was especially funny.
BOOK SHOTS: Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies
If you even if you only "sorta" like sci-fi, you'll love Scott Westerfeld's Uglies and Imposters series! I've used Westerfeld examples to teach creative writing for years.
BOOK SHOTS: Patti Callahan’s Becoming Mrs. Lewis
This is a novel about C.S. Lewis and his wife's love story, told from her perspective.
BOOK SHOTS: Beth Moore’s All My Knotted-Up Life
BOOK SHOTS: Lisa Samson’s The Passion of Mary-Margaret
A very satisfying read, especially if you're a romantic, Catholic, or need a shot of hope.
BOOK SHOTS: Anthony Ray Hinton’s The Sun Does Shine
Anthony Ray Hinton's memoir smacks you upside the head to quit whining over injustices you've suffered and follow him onto the high road of overcoming. A glorious life! https://youtu.be/2RTdenqacps
BOOK SHOTS: Sunshine Vicram Series
This week's Book Shot covers a fun, 3-book series.
Launching Book Shots of My Fav Books
Starting today, I'll serve weekly Book Shots: Short, shot-glass-sized videos about books I love. If you like the stories I've written, chances are good that you'll enjoy the same books I like to read. Just sayin'! Here's my two cents about Joshilyn Jackson's Never...
Where I Write My Words
On Loma Vista Street, my writing space started out on a desk my father-in-law had found in his Johnstown, Pennsylvania, alley and refinished. I pushed it up against a window in the corner of our bedroom in 2002 and wrote nearly every day, a lifetime of words finally...
About Ann
Ann Lee Miller holds a BA and MFA in creative writing. She teaches writing online for Grand Canyon University. She’s lived in Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, and Oregon but left her heart in Florida where she grew up. Over 100,000 copies of her novels have been downloaded from Amazon. She is hard at work on a memoir-novel about growing up on a sailboat. When she’s not embroiled in a crisis–real or imagined–you’ll find her hiking with her husband or meddling in her kids’ lives.