Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Nov 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
Willoughby's Return by Jane Odiwe reunites readers with Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and Marianne's sisters Margaret and Elinor from Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen.  "But three years of...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Nov 3, 2009, 11:00 pm
Jane Odiwe, author of Lydia Bennet's Story (click link for my review) and most recently Willoughby's Return (review forthcoming), took time out of her busy schedule answer a few interview ques...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Nov 2, 2009, 11:00 pm
Pat Bertram is the author of three novels -- More Deaths Than One, A Spark of Heavenly Fire, and Daughter Am I.  Her novels can be found on Smashwords and at other retailers.  She recently ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Nov 1, 2009, 11:00 pm
Charlaine Harris' Living Dead in Dallas continues the Sookie Stackhouse series.  Sookie has agreed to use here telepathic powers to help the vampires when necessary so long as the interviewee...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Nov 1, 2009, 4:00 pm
It's November 1, and that means it's time for National Novel Writing Month.  Yes, I'm participating again this year.  50,000 words in 30 days. I have never completed this ta...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 31, 2009, 11:00 pm
Welcome to another Mailbox Monday, sponsored by The Printed Page, on Sunday. This is the time during the week when I let you take a peek inside my mailbox at my books.  I've either snagg...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 30, 2009, 11:00 pm
Don't forget about the Verse Reviewers link I'm creating here on Savvy Verse & Wit. Send me an email with your blog information to savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com And now, for the ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 30, 2009, 9:00 pm
Thank you to everyone who entered my latest giveaways. The winner of The Tudor Rose by Margaret Campbell Barnes was Renee. The winners of The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl were H...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 29, 2009, 11:00 pm
John Amen's More of Me Disappears is broken down into three separate sections and each poem in each section is accessible, vivid, and explosive.  In a number of poems, Amen's musical and ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 28, 2009, 11:00 pm
Carta Marina was the first largely accurate map of the Northern Countries, completed by the Swedish historian Olaus Magnus in 1539.  Ann Fisher-Wirth has taken her inspiration from this map--comp...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 28, 2009, 10:59 pm
Claudia Burbank recently agreed to an interview with myself and 32 Poems. And here is what she had to say. How would you introduce yourself to a crowded room eager to hang on your every word...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 28, 2009, 7:00 pm
I wanted to provide you with an update on my read-a-thon success.  I read two poetry books--Carta Marina and More of Me Disappears--last weekend, which means I will be donating $10 to poets.org.&...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 28, 2009, 4:00 pm
Cara at Ooh...Books has started a new meme on Wednesdays called FreeVerse to introduce poetry to new and old readers in a variety of ways. I took my cue from Cara today and decided to post a YouT...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 28, 2009, 6:43 am
PrintRunner has offered to give 250 business cards each to 4 readers of my blog. PrintRunner offers a wide variety of printing services including business cards, brochures, flyers, posters (Check...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 26, 2009, 11:00 pm
Douglas Jacobson's Night of Flames is a gritty "spy" novel set during World War II beginning in 1939 during the invasion of Poland by the Nazis.  The main protagonists Anna and Jan Kopernik a...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 26, 2009, 11:00 am
From Carta Marina December 16 Red taillights lead me uphill, downhill— I watch them from the bus’s steamy window, pressing my cheek against cold glass as I’m carried from the a...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 25, 2009, 11:00 pm
Welcome to another Mailbox Monday, sponsored by The Printed Page.  This is a meme to share your latest library finds, books you bought, ARCs you've received and more. 1.  An anci...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 25, 2009, 7:12 am
1. Which hour was most daunting for you? 16th hour was tough and I eventually succumbed to sleep.  But I did get up again about 5:50 AM to finish my 3rd book by 8 AM and the end of the read-...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 11:00 pm
*Another* Another Faust Contest Hi everyone. Dina and I are about to kick off a month-long tour for our book, Another Faust, and we want to do it by announcing a contest! We are looking for the m...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 7:30 pm
Ok, you're in for a group update.  Here's the skinny: Anna from Diary of an Eccentric, after 12 hours, is still reading The Return by Victoria Hislop and she is not halfway through i...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 2:32 pm
Read-a-thon hour 8:  This mini-challenge is from Under the Boardwalk and asks readers to talk about who or what keeps them company. Well, here you are.  I have a full house of Anna from...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 1:33 pm
So, we were in need of a break.  We had some lasagna and garlic bread for lunch, which the men cooked!  I couldn't believe it. I've finished one book of poetry Carta Marina, and...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 10:31 am
My blog has been hijacked by The Girl who wanted to do a mini-challenge. So here's her sentence from her book titles: Bobby vs. Girls, the treasure hunters, get kicked out from bonevi...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 24, 2009, 9:59 am
Good morning.  It's read-a-thon!  I started exactly at 8AM EST reading, while preparing breakfast.  I started with Carta Marina, a poetry book and got to part two of the three part ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 23, 2009, 11:00 am
Don't forget about the Verse Reviewers link I'm creating here on Savvy Verse & Wit. Send me an email with your blog information to savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com And now, for the ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 22, 2009, 11:00 pm
Some of you may have expected my review of Night of Flames by Douglas Jacobson for Pump Up Your Book Promotion, but the publisher didn't get the book to me with enough lead time, so I'll be po...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 21, 2009, 11:00 pm
Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens is one of a number of books about Charles Dickens' last, albeit unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  But what sets this novel apart from its com...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 21, 2009, 7:00 pm
It's that time again.  Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-Thon is this Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, starting on the East Coast at 8AM. I'm sure you are wondering what I've chosen to read thi...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 20, 2009, 11:00 pm
With my TLC Book Tour stop for Matthew Pearl's The Last Dickens scheduled for Oct. 22, I wanted to provide Matthew with his own guest post date, since he was kind enough to include some photos of ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 20, 2009, 4:00 pm
I want to welcome Laura Brodie to the blog.  You're in for a real treat.  She's written about her writing space and provided a photographic invitation for all of you.  I want to...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 19, 2009, 11:00 pm
Laura Brodie's debut novel, The Widow's Season, is a dirge of grief, wraiths, and resurrection of a professional woman whose been lost in of the song's cadence for far too long.  Set ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 19, 2009, 4:00 pm
On October 18, 2009, at the Bethesda, Md., The Writer's Center held a reading of Holocaust survivor Hilda Stern Cohen's work, published for the first time in English--translated from her nativ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 18, 2009, 11:00 pm
Welcome to Mailbox Monday, sponsored by Marcia of The Printed Page, where bloggers reveal their bookish finds from the bookstore, giveaways, the library, and other venues. These are the books I&#...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 18, 2009, 11:30 am
I've been remiss in announcing the winners of several giveaways lately.  It's been hectic with book tours and other events, but I wanted to recognize the latest winners over the past seve...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 17, 2009, 11:00 am
Don't forget about the Verse Reviewers link I'm creating here on Savvy Verse & Wit. Send me an email with your blog information to savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com And now, for the ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 16, 2009, 11:00 am
Have you ever visited As Usual, I Need More Bookshelves on a Friday? Well, if you haven't, you've been missing out on a great feature inspired by Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 15, 2009, 11:00 pm
Thomas Stemmer recently agreed to an interview with myself and 32 Poems. And here is what she had to say.  How would you introduce yourself to a crowded room eager to hang on your every wor...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 14, 2009, 11:00 pm
Laura Brodie, author of The Widow's Season, will be in Silver Spring, Md., tonight, Oct. 15, 2009, at 7 PM. Where: The Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 8230 Georgia Ave Silver Spring, MD ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 13, 2009, 11:00 pm
Margaret Campbell Barnes' The Tudor Rose:  A Novel of Elizabeth of York is a historical novel that chronicles the final moments of Edward IV's reign in England and the usurpation of the t...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 12, 2009, 11:00 pm
Michael Baron was kind enough to write up a short piece about his writing space as part of his time here on the blog. I hope you'll check out his vivid descriptions and enjoy the journey.&nbs...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 11, 2009, 11:00 pm
Michael Baron's When You Went Away is more than a novel about grief and fatherhood; it's a novel about being lost and the journey to find the right path. Gerry Rubato has lost his whole w...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 10, 2009, 11:00 pm
Welcome to another Mailbox Monday, sponsored by Marcia at The Printed Page, on Sunday. I've been relatively good in terms of not buying or accepting review copies in the last few weeks, but n...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 10, 2009, 9:30 am
Don't forget about the Verse Reviewers link I'm creating here on Savvy Verse & Wit. Send me an email with your blog information to savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com And now, for the ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 8, 2009, 11:00 pm
 (From left to right:  Trish of Hey Lady! Whatcha Readin'; my mom, Pat, who sometimes blogs here at Savvy Verse & Wit; Me; Amy from My Friend Amy; Nicole from Linus's Blanket; Gayle ...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 7, 2009, 11:00 pm
Shilpa Agarwal's Haunting Bombay immerses readers in a deeply saturated drama and literary ghost story reminiscent of the Bollywood films the Mittal family's driver Gulu adapts into his own ad...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 6, 2009, 11:00 pm
Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins follows up where The Hunger Games (Click here for my review) left off. In this novel, Katniss discovers that her final act i...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 5, 2009, 11:00 pm
Eucharista Ward O.S.F.'s A Match for Mary Bennet: Can a serious young lady ever find her way to love? is delightful and reminiscent of the regency craftswoman Jane Austen herself.  The novel&...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 5, 2009, 8:00 am
The Woodstock Story Book by Linanne G. Sackett and Barry Z. Levine is much more than photographs of the infamous peace concert called Woodstock.  It's a chronicle of the festival from its inc...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 4, 2009, 11:00 pm
Welcome to another Mailbox Monday, sponsored by Marcia at The Printed Page. We're trying to slow down on the number of books accepted, but I can't stop myself from buying books?! Thi...
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Serena M. A. posted an article on Savvy Verse & Wit - Oct 3, 2009, 9:30 am
Don't forget about the Verse Reviewers link I'm creating here on Savvy Verse & Wit. Send me an email with your blog information to savvyverseandwit AT gmail DOT com Sorry we're a...
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