Just reread this review and thought I’d share it. Jane Susann MacCarter 5.0 out of 5 stars A novel that satisfies on many enjoyable levels Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2022 Verified Purchase It’s both comforting and inspiring to read ICE FLIGHT, a book where the Cool Guys turn out to be the […]
Haunt your holiday with a new book. Join Casey and her friends when Kit decides to draw down the moon in the Souls On Board series by Susan Egner. Find it on Amazon or her website, www.egnerink.com
There were once over 50 burial mounds in St. Paul before the construction of the city destroyed most of them. Seven have been preserved. There’s a large burial mound in the northern part of Minnesota. It’s said that it was once as high as a two-story building. Ignorance and greed caused it to be ransacked […]
You may be surprised to read that over three thousand people get lost yearly in our National Forests, and you may be relieved to hear that most are found. Those unharmed are called Saves. Then others are found, injured, or deceased by natural causes; heart attack, fatal injury from a fall, etc. But, at the […]
In researching the Laurel people, I found that they made burial masks for their deceased. Legend has it that the masks helped them find their spiritual self. Seems like the dark ages? Not true; consider that Abe Lincoln, Stalin, Dillinger, and even a beheaded queen had burial masks. Eek, was the head still attached? And […]
In writing my most recent book, I went down a number of rabbit holes in my research. My story takes place in northern Minnesota, by Lake Superior and Superior National Forest. In looking for myths and legends related to the indigenous people of the area, I discovered the Laurel People, who preceded all others. After […]
“Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.” Everything I see or hear makes me ask, why? What do I think about that? How do I relate? I relate by writing a story that answers the question for me. The story always tells itself.
I love Sue Grafton’s reason: “I write because it’s all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I’m stuck in the hell of writer’s block, which I’m happy to report only occurs about once a day…”
Love this definition by Neil Gaiman: “Fiction gives us empathy; it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing people through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.” Neil Gaiman
My father was born in 1909 and was in a military school from 1914 until 1921. During that time, with no parents to encourage or explain, such things as the Spanish flu, World War I, prohibition, and the Great Depression occurred. Can you imagine? But then I started thinking about my own life, born at […]