![]() ![]() ![]() Writing young-adult fiction, she’s managed to find a niche within her chosen genre that has resonated with fans worldwide, as she’s reached the top of the bestseller’s lists on numerous occasion.īorn on the 25th of June 1983, she’s overcome a lot to get where she currently is with her work. Now living in the snow covered mountains of Wyoming, Jessica Sorensen has come a long way in her career, with her three children and husband. Currently residing in Wyoming, she continues to innovate within the new wave of her specific chosen genres. She’s also worked upon a series of fantasy novels as well. Featured on the USA Today bestseller list, American author Jessica Sorensen is a hugely successful author with her popular collection of new-adult romance novels. ![]()
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![]() Stay here and let me finish undressing you.” ![]() “I think I’ll take my sweet ass back to bed.” I tried to stand up, but he leaned forward and grabbed my hand. Compared to his cluttered and busy office, his home looked as though he hardly spent any time there. A rich leather couch and matching chairs decorated the living roomtasteful, functional, necessary. He’d furnished his condo nicely, but without much thought or feeling. She was never found, and Alex was never arrested.Īs far as I knew, he lived alone. The police questioned Alex and the firm investigated him, but they’d never laid charges. Alex didn’t have a girlfriend to worry about.Ī while ago, there’d been rumors that he’d slept with a female client of his, but she disappeared. ![]() Will didn’t seem to care, though, and he often laughed at Alex and me when we really got going. I tried to rein it in, but Alex wouldn’t give it up. If I’d been single, it wouldn’t have been a problem… but I wasn’t single and didn’t want to be. I shouldn’t have flirted with him so much. ![]() ![]() But, as with Pilate, these women don’t seem to relate directly to their biblical namesakes - i.e., Hagar doesn’t seem to act like the one in the book of Genesis. With her lives her daughter Reba and Reba’s daughter Hagar. She lives a life on her own, travelling around the country for decades, before ending up in the northern Michigan city along a Great Lake, probably Detroit, where her brother, the second Macon Dead, lives. Pilate Dead, who does not have a bellybutton, keeps her hair cut very short, wears men’s boots and has a ring in her ear that holds a small box containing the piece of the page of the Bible on which her father pointed to her name. Indeed, she could be seen as the antithesis of that bureaucratic power-wielder. She is nothing like the Pontius Pilate of the Bible (at least, I don’t think so), the Roman Governor of Judea who, at the behest of a screaming crowd, sentenced Jesus to crucifixion. Her name, the reader learns early in the novel, was chosen by her illiterate father by putting his finger down at random on a page of the Bible. Morrison is using the Bible for her own purposes.Ĭonsider one of her key characters, Pilate Dead, the aunt of the central figure Macon Dead III, known as Milkman. ![]() ![]() A major thread in Song of Solomon is the Bible, but not the Bible of institutional belief systems. ![]() ![]() In my (other) professional life as an academic, I study them both as well, so writing a rom-com set on reality TV is something I'm honestly amazed I haven't done before now: it's the perfect blend of a lot of my interests. Jodi said: ‘I'm an avid reader of romance novels and an avid watcher of reality TV. She is currently a lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in Melbourne where her work focuses on the history of love, sex, women and girls, popular culture and fiction. Jodi McAlister has had a passion for the genre of romance for a very long time and made it the centre of her academic career and research. A fun take on shows such as the hugely popular The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these novels examine how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom in – well, the most likely of places. Here for the Right Reasons and Can I Steal You for a Second? are two adorable romantic comedies set on the same season of a reality dating show being filmed during a pandemic. Simon & Schuster Australia has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights to two adult novels by Jodi McAlister, YA author of the Valentine series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hazzley posts a notice on the community board at the local grocery store.įour people turn up for the first meeting: Gwen, a recently retiree in her early 60s, who finds herself pet-sitting a cantankerous parrot Chiyo, a 40-year-old fitness instructor who cared for her unyielding but gossip-loving mother through the final days of her life Addie, a woman preemptively grieving a close friend who is seriously ill and Tom, an antiques dealer and amateur poet who, deprived of home baking since becoming a widower, comes to the first meeting hoping cake will be served. When her longtime friend Cassandra, café owner and occasional dance-class partner, suggests that she start up a conversation group. Hazzley is at loose ends, even three years after the death of her husband. ON TUESDAY NIGHTS IN THE BACKROOM OF CASSIE'S CAFÉ, SIX STRANGERS SEEK SOLACE AND FIND THEMSELVES PART OF A COMPANY OF GOOD CHEER. ![]() ![]() The best advice for any would-be author: read, read, read….”īrenda sold her first book, and the rest is history. ![]() ![]() “I learned how to write by reading what others have written. “When I first got the idea to become a novelist, it took me five years to teach myself the craft and finish my first book,” Brenda admits. In school, math and science were her best subjects, and when it came time to pick a major in college, she chose business.Ībandoning her academic scholarship to Brigham Young University at the age of 20 in order to get married and start a family, Brenda dabbled in commercial real estate, then became a loan officer. In fact, Brenda swears she didn’t have a creative bone in her body. However, writing was the last profession she expected to undertake. ![]() “It was then that I decided that I needed to do something from home.” ![]() “I caught my day-care provider drugging my children with cough syrup and Tylenol to get them to sleep while I was away,” Brenda says. It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s bestselling author career. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A "word collector," Felicity sees words everywhere - shining above strangers, tucked into church eves, and tangled up her dog's floppy ears - but Midnight Gulch is the first place she's ever seen the word "home." And then there's Jonah, a mysterious, spiky-haired do-gooder who shimmers with words Felicity's never seen before, words that make Felicity's heart beat a little faster.įelicity wants to stay in Midnight Gulch more than anything, but first, she'll need to figure out how to bring back the magic, breaking the spell that's been cast over the town.and her mother's broken heart. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all about things like that her nomadic mother is cursed with a wandering heart.īut when she arrives in Midnight Gulch, Felicity thinks her luck's about to change. A Snicker of Magic By Natalie Lloyd 19 ratings 46 reviews 43 followers Buy Book Save Book Take Quiz Introducing an extraordinary new voice-a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten. But that was long ago, before a curse drove the magic away. Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. Natalie Lloyd is the New York Times Bestselling author of novels for young readers. Quirky and heartwarming, funny and endearing, this is a unique story with indelible characters brought to life by Lloyd and her distinct lyrical writing style. Introducing an extraordinary new voice - a magical debut that will make your skin tingle, your eyes glisten.and your heart sing. A Snicker of Magic is about the wants of any human beinghome, love, family, friends, and a little bit of magic to bind it all together. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanders, The Historical figure of Jesus, 1993, pg. Sanders, an historian who studies Judaism and greek- roman History, in his historical study about Jesus has written: "Many wish to agree with Jesus: and this often means they expect JESUS to agree with them" (E. The difficulty with a person like Jesus is evident: an historical study about him often shows us nothing but what the author wants us to believe, what he wants to show us, the MENTAL PICTURE AND IDEA (negative or positive) he has of Jesus. It's very difficult for an author not to be influenced by the IDEA or the PICTURE he has of a person or an historic fact: we often read books (also historical studies) too influenced by the author's mentality and this is a danger you rarely avoid, especially when you write about a person/character you and many people truly like or whom many believe in. An example is Jesus. He admits and recognizes the negative sides of Alexander, his mistakes and weaknesses. ![]() The author shows us his love and admiration for the man and the King, without letting himself be blinded by this love (see Mary Renault in her study The nature of Alexander). ![]() So, every (reasoned) criticism is welcomed. Like all opinions, they are questionable, and I can be wrong. ![]() ![]() There has been speculation of a Hittite origin of the term (Salonen, p. 12 Rabin, pp. 134–136).ĭuring the Middle Ages the word entered European languages: in Middle English as dragman, from Old French drugeman, from Medieval Latin as dragumannus, from Middle Greek δραγομάνος, dragoumanos. The latter is obviously more closely related to the other languages mentioned, though both are derived from the same Semitic root. Hebrew makes a distinction between מתרגם ( metargem)-referring to a translator of written texts-and מתורגמן ( meturgeman) referring to an interpreter of spoken conversation or speeches. Deriving from the Semitic quadriliteral root t-r-g-m, it appears in Akkadian as "targumannu," in Ge'ez (Classical Ethiopic) as ትርጓም ( t-r-gw-m), and in Aramaic as targemana. In Arabic the word is ترجمان ( tarjumān), in Turkish tercüman. ![]() Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, 1891 Etymology and variants ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, Brontë's twenty-one contributions to Poems represented only a fraction of the nearly two hundred poems collected by C. The writer of the review in the 4 July 1846 Athenaeum, for example, noted her "fine quaint spirit" and asserted that she had "things to speak that men will be glad to hear,-and an evident power of wing that may reach heights not here attempted." It seemed in 1848, the year of Emily's death, as if this potential were never to be realized. The three notices were positive, however, especially with respect to the contributions of Ellis Bell-Emily Brontë. The only poems by Emily Brontë that were published in her lifetime were included in a slim volume by Brontë and her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), which sold a mere two copies and received only three unsigned reviews in the months following its publication. ![]() |