Rest in Peace Maurice Sendak

Sad news that Maurice Sendak has passed away...

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Anon,

Nancy

Submission Window

As I was perusing Twitter the other day I came across this link on the Carolrhoda blog. An editor there is accepting unagented YA novel submissions for the month of April. If you've got that novel finished, check it out!

http://www.carolrhoda.blogspot.com/

Oh, he's even constructed a query letter to be used with the submission. All you have to do is type it out, insert your information, attach the mani and you are there!

Good Luck everyone,

Anon,

Nancy

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss

Happy Veterans Day

Special Thanks to all who gave their lives or are giving their lives so that we may live free...

In celebration of our armed forces here is an excerpt from my grandfather's journal as he left New York harbor on his way to serve as a Chaplin to an Army Battalion in France in 1918.

What mingled emotions come as the great drama of life unfolds! Here we are on board the U.S. President Grant bound for "somewhere in France..."

We have left old New York far behind. How hard it is to see the glorious harbor for the last time- for perhaps years! How one does love one's country when leaving it under such conditions as these. It stands for life as each one delights to live it, for happiness which comes through the great normal channels of divine ordination; for service unto others as God gives us opportunity. The men have been silent, thoughtful and serious. They realize also what it means. Yet not one of us would be elsewhere.


Anon,

Nancy

Amazing Animal Pix

Check out these amazing photos of a pride of lions, a mama lion in particular, who are trying to save a lion cub who's fallen into a ravine.

http://animaltracks.today.com/_news/2011/09/27/7974512-cliffhanger-can-a-mama-lion-save-her-cub

Found this on Pinterest.com, So Cool

  From the San Francisco Chronicle, a female humpback whale had become entangled in a spider web of crab traps and lines. She was so weighted down by the traps that she struggled to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her body, her tail, her torso, a line tugging in her mouth. A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed an environmental group for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so bad off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her. They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was freed, the divers said she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, and nudged them, pushed them gently around as she was thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives. The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth said her eyes were following him the whole time, and he will never be the same.

Wonder how many copies it sold?