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Easter Craft for Kids 10 Apr 4:51 AM (4 days ago)

Printable found here:

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Ice-cream Toppings Recipes 9 Apr 5:10 AM (5 days ago)

These recipes are enough for a whole ice-cream party. 

Hot Fudge Sauce

1 12oz bag of chocolate chips (melted)

1 C of sugar

1 1/2 cup of heavy cream

1 C light corn syrup

1/2 C cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon of salt

6 tablespoons of butter

3 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

Bring melted chocolate, sugar, heavy cream, corn syrup, cocoa powder, salt and butter to a low boil until all ingredients are well blended and dissolved. Remove from the heat and add vanilla and sweetened condensed milk.

Carmel Sauce

1/4 cup butter (melted)

1 cup light brown sugar

1 cup light corn syrup

1 can of sweetened condensed milk

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Bring butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup to a low boil until all sugar is dissolved.  Remove from the heat and add vanilla and sweetened condensed milk.

Sticky Mango Rice 29 Mar 3:22 PM (16 days ago)

 

For the RICE

 

4 cups sweet rice (I honestly used regular Botan Calrose rice. It turned out great).

2 cups water

1 cup of mango juice.

2-4 large mangoes (peeled and sliced)

 

Cook the rice in 2 cups water and 1 cup of mango juice.

 

For the coconut cream sauce to go over the top

2 cans full-fat coconut milk

1/2 cup of sugar

2 teaspoons of cornstarch

 

Add cornstarch to coconut milk before heating and mix well. Add sugar and cook on medium heat until sugar is dissolved.

 

Pour the sauce over the cooked rice and peeled and sliced mangos.

 

Serve warm or cold.

Balsamic Garlic Mushrooms 22 Mar 3:25 PM (23 days ago)

 

Ingredients

2 pounds mushrooms, 

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

1 tablespoon soy sauce 

3 tablespoon of minced garlic

1/2 teaspoon thyme

salt and pepper to taste

Directions

Slice and skewer the mushrooms.

Marinate the mushrooms in the mixture.

Bake in the oven for 10 min at 350.

English Sticky Toffee Pudding Recipe 7 Mar 2:34 PM (last month)

 

No not really pudding. More like a cake soaked in yummy sauce. 

Ingredients

Cake

1 ¼ c Dates finely chopped

8 oz boiling water  (Soak the chopped dates in this water while you get the rest ready).

½ cup unsalted butter (melted)

1 cup brown sugar

4 eggs large

1 ¾ c flour all purpose

½ tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

2 Tbsp cacao powder

1 pinch salt

Pour into a 9"x9" baking pan and bake at 350 for 50 min.

Dump this sauce on top:

Sticky Toffee Sauce

¼ cup butter unsalted

1 cup brown sugar 

2 cups heavy whipping cream 

Bring to a med boil stirring constantly. 

Free the Unicorn! One of my favorite Songs 24 Feb 12:12 PM (last month)

Free the Unicorn by Her Eden Music 18 Feb 10:17 AM (last month)

 Announcing a new music album.

You can find this on Amazon, Itunes, Pandora, Spotify, Iheartradio and more. 

Sleeping With Dogs by Barbara Barth 14 Feb 9:45 PM (last month)

 

Barbara Barth started adopting dogs after the loss of her husband in 2008. From larger dogs to downsizing to Chihuahuas there are always five to six dogs at home. Barth has captured the essence of each dog's personality in short free verse poems. Known as Writer With Dogs, Barth has written two memoirs and a variety of novels. Dogs are always present in her stories. This is her first collection of poems.A chapbook of second chances.

 

ISBN-13: 979-8988575061

ASIN: B0DNMFXP46

Print Length: 37 pages

 

Purchase a copy of the book on Amazon. You can also add it to your Goodreads reading list.

 

About the Author

 

Barbara Barth turned to writing and adopting dogs to heal after the loss of her husband in 2008. Known as Writer With Dogs over the years, she now calls herself Chihuahua Mama and lives with six demanding Chihuahuas in a charming small town forty miles from Atlanta. She is Literary Arts Chair on the Board of her local art center. Inspired by the many talented artists she meets Barth started painting. Her whimsical style embraces ladies, gardens, critters, and of course cats and dogs.

 

Find her online at:

 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barbarabarthstudio/

Blog: https://barbarabarthartandwords.blogspot.com/

Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BarbaraBarthStudio

 

Celebrating My Favorite Adventure Buddy on Valentines Week 11 Feb 7:46 AM (2 months ago)

 

THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE by NANCY CHRISTIE 5 Feb 9:00 PM (2 months ago)

 

The Language of Love and Other Stories is about all types of love relationships: the ones that exist between parent and child as well as between generations, the bonds that grow between new lovers as well as those that exist between long-settled couples. The 20-story collection explores all the stages of love: the tenuous yet exciting beginning, the calmer, more mundane phases, the uncertain periods, and finally the ending—sometimes anticipated, other times devastatingly unexpected. It’s about whom one loves, how one loves, and what one does when the love is reciprocated, rejected or over.

 

PUBLISHER: Unsolicited Press

ASIN:  B0DG333HWN

ISBN-13  978-1-963115-28-4

Print Length: 208 pages

 

You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon. Don't forget to add it to your GoodReads reading list.

 

About the Author

 

Nancy Christie is the award-winning author of two Novels, Reinventing Rita and Finding Fran (both from BookBaby)—the first two books in her Midlife Moxie Novel Series; four short story collections: The Language of Love and Other Stories,  Mistletoe Magic and Other Holiday Tales, Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories and Peripheral Visions and Other Stories (all from Unsolicited Press); two books for writers: Rut-Busting Book for Authors and Rut-Busting Book for Writers (both from BookBaby) and the inspirational book, The Gifts of Change (Atria/Beyond Words). Forthcoming books include Moving Maggie, the third in her Midlife Moxie Novel Series that is scheduled for release in 2025.

 

Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous print and online publications, with several earning contest placement.

 

The host of the Living the Writing Life podcast and the founder of the annual “Midlife Moxie” Day and “Celebrate Short Fiction” Day, Nancy teaches writing workshops at conferences, libraries, and schools. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), the Florida Writers Association (FWA) and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA).

 

Visit her website to follow her updates. You can also follow her on X, Facebook, and Instagram.

 

Ecotherapy 27 Jan 7:51 AM (2 months ago)

 

Getting out in nature has a wide variety of health benefits including mental health benefits.

Ecotherapy is often used to reduce techno-stress (technology overuse or stress and strain from being in front of a computer all day long.)

Types of ecotherapy include:

• Forest bathing
• Animal therapy
• Nature meditation
• Conservation or taking stewardship over the earth and animals.
• Arts and crafts with natural objects like pinecones and leaves.
• Wilderness therapy
• Adventure Therapy
• Physical exercise in nature such as trail running
• Dark Nature (activities at night such as stargazing)
• Mediation activates such as water watching or fire watching
• Mindfulness and mindfulness activities such as rock stacking or berry picking
• Gardening
• Nature ceremonies/prayer
• Nature walks
• Park prescriptions
• Walk on grass barefoot (earthing)
• Cob building
• Eating garden herbs and foods

Cat Pictures - Because we need it. 24 Jan 10:50 AM (2 months ago)

 

Good News! the Light is Winning 20 Jan 6:10 AM (2 months ago)

 

American Still Life By Jim Naremore 13 Jan 9:00 PM (3 months ago)

We are all drowning, and we are all saviors.

Wresting with addiction, guilt, and self-loathing, gifted photojournalist Skade Felsdottir finds herself trapped in a web of her own creation when she is forced by circumstances to return to her hometown—the place that holds her crippling secrets. After screwing up her “big break”, a photo essay book about descansos—roadside memorials to people who have died tragically, Skade tries to salvage the project against a tight deadline. While simultaneously working and keeping her darkest demons at bay, Skade reconnects with an old boyfriend and befriends a unique but broken young woman named Kit. Their burgeoning friendship begins a process of healing for them both, until a devastating sequence of events plunges Skade into darkness, leaving her to decide between redemption and running away; between life and death. Set against a backdrop of the back roads of a forgotten America, American Still Life explores the crossroads of grief and artistic expression, of loneliness and atonement. A journey familiar.

Publisher: Regal House Publishing (Deceember 17, 2024)

ISBN: 1646035054

ISBN: 978-1646035052

AISN:  B0CNTWJH98

Print length:  296 pages

 

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About the Author

With roots in the American deep south and the Midwest grounding his sense of place, Jim Naremore has published an array of short fiction and the award-winning novel The Arts of Legerdemain as Taught by Ghosts (Belle Lutte, 2016). He holds an MFA from the Solstice program at Lasell University in Boston and currently lives with his partner and cat in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

You can follow the author at:

Instagram: @jim_naremore    https://www.instagram.com/jim_naremore/

Website: https://www.jim-naremore.com/

 

The Watchers, The Silver Phoenix 3 Jan 8:02 AM (3 months ago)

 

The Watchers, Knight of Light 27 Dec 2024 1:50 PM (3 months ago)

 

The Watchers Series has been described as Lord of The Rings meets Supernatural. The Watchers are supernatural beings in human form whose duty it is to protect and guard mankind from the armies of darkness. Unfortunately, some of these Watchers go bad.

Deirdra Eden's, The Watcher's Series, is written in a traditional fairytale style with a young girl's discovery of incredible, but dangerous powers within herself, a cast of humorous side-kicks, a quest for greater self-discovery and purpose, and villains of epic proportions.​ Great for readers ages ten and up.

The main themes are Fighting for Your Dreams, Always Having Hope, and Spreading Light.

Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/3DIut20

About the Author:

Deirdra Eden is an award-winning artist and international bestselling author of The Watchers Series. Captivating audiences of all ages with her novels and fairy tales, her specialty is inspirational epic fantasy. Including documented historical phenomena, natural disasters of biblical proportions, and eyewitness accounts of the supernatural, she creates a relatable world for the modern reader with inspiring messages of hope. 

Winter Pictures 20 Dec 2024 3:07 PM (3 months ago)

 

Throwback Library Transformation 6 Dec 2024 10:50 AM (4 months ago)

 

The Watchers, Night of Light is a finalist for The American Writing Awards. 27 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

The Watchers, Night of Light is a finalist for The American Writing Awards.

July and Everything After By Allie Nava 26 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 

July and Everything After

By Allie Nava

Book Summary

Maya’s journey from America to her birth country was meant to be a nostalgic visit. Instead, it became a fight for survival.

On the eve of Maya's 22nd birthday, civil war breaks out in Sri Lanka. During what will become known as “Black July,” Maya is targeted and attacked in the organized massacres and pogroms against minorities, and she barely escapes the genocidal chaos.

Haunted by the horrors she witnessed, Maya returns to the US and tries to rally a diverse group of allies to help expose the atrocities in her birth country, among them her Norwegian-American best friend, a magnanimous Catholic nun, and a gifted young man from her past.

Bent on justice, Maya isn’t prepared for the unexpected twists and turns and confrontations with a nemesis that will test her resolve. As the war and humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka intensify, so does Maya’s disillusionment, but contact with a mysterious mentor whose wisdom she once ignored holds the key to her future.

Fans of Paolo Coelho, Amy Tan, Vaddey Ratner, and Khaled Hosseini will be captivated by July and Everything After, a modern tale of resilience and transformation against extraordinary odds and war.

Publisher: DartFrog Books (September 16, 2024)

ISBN: 1965253059

ISBN: 978-1965253052

AISN:  B0DHFWGP1P

Print length:  238 pages

 

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About the Author

Allie Nava is an American writer who survived the violent anti-minority massacres of 1970s Sri Lanka. A former executive and writing advisor, she’s been a board member or advocate for several mission-oriented organizations including Bellevue Literary Review and Golden Seeds. She has been an invited speaker at several ideas festivals, universities, and conferences, an expert panelist for WNYC (The Brian Lehrer Show), and has been recognized for her work  by several organizations including Amazon, Harvard, and Asia Society.  She is a member of The Authors Guild.

You can follow the author at:

Newsletter: https://alliestories8.substack.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alliestories8

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alliestories8

Website: https://www.AllieNava.com

The Choice to Heal by guest contributor Allie Nava 26 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 The Choice to Heal

by guest contributor Allie Nava

Our choice of response to an event in our lives, is one of the most influential factors that will determine how we, as individuals, will experience that event. Individual choice, and the resulting individual actions, can ignite us on a journey which can involve learning and betterment, healing or renewal, or the opposite.

Consider the case of a personal challenge, or even a crisis. We often feel helpless in the moment, wondering how we are going to overcome the challenge. When I’ve felt challenged in the past, I’ve found that learning from others far wiser than me has been helpful.

A good first step in dealing with challenges is to take a pause, and think about the things for which we’re grateful. Making the choice to feel gratitude can change our perspective on the challenge in front of us.

Another helpful step is to choose to focus on the things that are within our control. We can choose to not get frustrated by those things outside of us that we cannot control. For example, we may not agree with how a situation is being handled. Or we may not like the feeling of helplessness we feel in a given moment. Rather than getting frustrated and angry, we can evaluate the ways in which we can contribute to the change that we want to see. Or we can write down a list of the things that we can do that are within our control, and focus only on that.

Choosing to adopt a long-term outlook on solving the challenge in front of us can also be a powerful way to begin to address a challenge, especially if a healing process needs to be involved. Healing doesn’t happen overnight. It can take days or weeks or months or years of discovery, learning, and mending to see the results we desire. We should be patient with ourselves, and persist in our efforts over days or weeks or months.

Practicing simple forms of meditation can help reduce stress. This is another proactive choice we can make to pause and care for our health and mental state. There is evidence that even just ten to twenty minutes a day of focused time meditating can help with stress and healing. It doesn’t require a fancy place. Simply finding a quiet room or corner somewhere, to sit down and close your eyes, and focus on breathing, is a good start.

These are just some of the ways in which the choices we make, and the individual actions we take, can help us begin to address challenges, or even initiate a healing or  renewal process.

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Author Bio:  Allie Nava is the author of bestselling novel JULY AND EVERYTHING AFTER, a modern tale of resilience against extraordinary odds. You can find her online at www.allienava.com and on social media at www.instagram.com/alliestories8 or www.facebook.com/alliestories8.

The Advantages of Writing in Multiple Genres by Marlene Bell 21 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 The Advantages of Writing in Multiple Genres 

When I first began to publish, I had no idea how intricate and complicated the process would be to develop a professional product in print. Our 4H club had asked me to write a little book on how to raise sheep—which I eventually did over a two-year period. At that time, I wrote for families and people who knew us in the club. Friends and family are forgiving and supportive, and they gave me a false sense of security about my abilities to explain what I’d learned over twenty years with sheep. Writing is easy and so much fun! I say that now as I’m laughing…

The sheep book and my love of sheep was a joy to write, I’ll admit. A primer to learn the art of writing fiction—it was not. My book adviser through Book Surge, (Amazon’s publishing company at the time,) expressed surprise at my switch from non-fiction to genre fiction. Actually, he was shocked. His reaction seemed odd to me at the time.

It wasn’t until I waded deep into the fiction process, that I understood my advisor’s gasp on the other end of the phone. The literary pool I’d fallen into had water way over my head. The research and years of looking into the various genres was arduous, and the harsh critiques I’d received from literary agents in online bootcamps were brutal to my self-esteem. Writing is hard. It’s that simple. Writing fiction takes a certain knack and the ability to create endlessly. All the while, following rules authors are expected to follow for their readers depending upon the genre.   

Ten years later, in 2018, Stolen Obsession came out in paperback. What a proud moment for me. Finally, I had a finished my first novel, one that had morphed from a single volume into a carefully planned series. The Annalisse adventures I write about include an antique-loving amateur sleuth who can’t seem to keep herself out of mischief and killers who want to do the couple harm. The books cross into different countries and subtly slide into various genres. The cross-genres happened accidentally—but situations emerge for a reason.

Writing the first four books in the Annalisse series has taken me from romantic suspense, thriller, and suspense, to romantic mystery. Mostly in international settings. Having a couple begin their dating experience while traveling exotic lands takes readers to places most of us won’t ever visit in a lifetime. By writing in different genres with characters who’ve become friends to my readers has given me the freedom to explore each genre without learning new main character backgrounds—while keeping the focus on the protagonist and her love interest, Alec Zavos. Should I decide to begin a new series with the detective from my original books, I will already have experience with what readers expect in each new category and theme of work. Some readers want to hear more from Annalisse and Alec’s detective friend, Bill Drake!

I wrote the children’s book, Mia and Nattie: One Great Team in 2020 after we lost the sheep that had become part of our family. The story is based on true events and learning experiences we had with the only bottle lamb my husband and I ever raised in the laundry room. They were heartwarming experiences I felt needed exploring in the public square. A picture book for children to teach the heartfelt life-lessons we had with Natalie, our horned Dorset ewe.  

 

A Hush at Midnight By Marlene Bell 21 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 

A Hush at Midnight

By Marlene Bell

 

Book Summary

Celebrity chef Laura Harris dwells on the horror of finding her mentor’s body in the groundskeeper’s disheveled bed—pillow and bedding half covering her open eyes—purple bruising around her mouth. A grisly snapshot in time revealing the Texas woman’s last moments during her attack. The elderly matriarch from the small town of Stenburg has left the physical world, and Laura is shattered.

 

She is catapulted headlong into the pursuit of a casual executioner, one bold enough to come

and go from the crime scene with ease, dropping bizarre crumb trails designed to mock the

deceased. But Laura herself doesn’t go unnoticed. As she digs deeper, she is followed and

bombarded by warnings to leave the state.

 

When the victim’s attorney informs Laura that she’s to inherit the entire Stenburg fortune, the

last act of kindness has made Laura the main person of interest in the investigation.

Message by message, Laura is methodically taunted by someone so deranged and driven

they’ll do whatever it takes to dislodge Laura from Texas – permanently.

 

Publisher: Ewephoric Publishing (October 1, 2024)

Print length:  350 pages

 

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About the Author

Marlene M. Bell has never met a sheep she didn’t like. As a personal touch for her readers, they often find these wooly creatures visiting her international romantic mysteries and children’s books as characters or subject matter.

Marlene is an accomplished artist and photographer who takes pride in entertaining fans on multiple levels with her creativity. Marlene’s award-winning Annalisse series boasts Best Mystery honors for all installments including these: IP Best Regional Australia/New Zealand, Global Award Best Mystery, and Chanticleer’s International Mystery and Mayhem shortlist for Copper Waters, the fourth mystery in the series. Her children's picture book, Mia and Nattie: One Great Team!, written primarily for younger kids, is based on true events from the Bell’s East Texas sheep ranch. The simple text and illustrations are a touching tribute of belonging and unconditional love between a little girl and her lamb.

You can follow the author at:

Website: https://www.marlenembell.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marlenembell

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Eight Tips on Researching History By Milana Marsenich 19 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 

Eight Tips on Researching History

By Milana Marsenich

  

When I first offered to write Idaho Madams for Farcountry Press, in the interest of fairness, I explained that I didn’t know how to research nonfiction. When they said yes to my proposal, my stomach tumbled. I needed to learn how to research history fast.

Many people offered advice that I followed. Here are a handful of their suggestions and things I learned along the way. I’m a western writer, so much of this comes from that perspective.

1.      Go to the libraries. Libraries are great resources. Librarians will walk you through research sites, point out related books, and help you find dissertations. Dissertations have valuable information with sited sources. These sources can be added to your list of potential resources.  

2.      Go to the archives and historical societies. Archives are amazing places. Look at the old newspapers. They’ll supply stories, advertisements, pictures, sketches, opinions, all fascinating to look through. If you can’t go, call them and ask for their help.  

3.      Go to related museums. Talk to people and listen to their stories. Ask questions about the event you are researching. I called the Oasis Brothel Museum in Wallace, Idaho to get a book on prostitution in the late 1800s. They didn’t have the book, but they had something better: the author’s telephone number. I called and left a message. He called right back. I also went to the Oasis Brothel Museum. It was like a time capsule, undisturbed from the moment the women fled out the back door to escape the law.

4.      If you can do it, go to the area. Walk the streets and alleys, especially in the older sections of towns. You’ll get a feel for the land, town, or city. You’ll get a sense of the people who lived there. While writing Idaho Madams, I went to Murray, Idaho by crossing Thompson Pass, although not during a blizzard as Molly B’Damn had done. I went to a museum dedicated to Molly B’Damn. I sat at the bar one morning and ate a jalapeno cheeseburger, listening to the bar owner and one of his early customers tell stories about Molly B’Damn Days, a yearly festival in Molly’s honor. I walked around the small mining town and up to the cemetery where Molly is buried. Molly was your quintessential madam with a heart of gold. The town still reveres her. The feel of this area was a goldmine of information for me.

5.      Surround yourself with photos of the area, people, and time. This will help with details and generate a sense of time travel.

6.      Search websites such as Wikipedia, Ancestry.com, newspapers.com, oldnews.com, myheritage.com. These webites can provide great information on historical events and people.

7.      Know when to stop researching and start writing. It’s easy to get pulled into the endless web of information.

8.      Finally, document each resource as you go. This will save a lot of future work, retracing your steps and recreating the list of sources used.

Idaho Madams By Milana Marsenich 19 Nov 2024 9:00 PM (4 months ago)

 

Idaho Madams

By Milana Marsenich

 

Book Summary

Fur, silver, and gold first lured men to Idaho Territory. Women soon followed. And what women they were! Molly B'Damn, Peg Leg Annie, Spanish Belle, Lou Beevers, Diamond Tooth Lil—the names alone promised excitement and intrigue.

In fact, these madams led complex, turbulent lives. Meet Maggie Hall, a devout Catholic whose husband used her to pay off his gambling debts. Working as a prostitute, Maggie made her way west and, as Molly B'Damn, became the guardian angel of an Idaho mining camp. Or Annie McIntyre, a young girl among the prospectors and ne'er do wells of Rocky Bar who amassed a small fortune as the local madam only to lose it all—along with both her legs.

Idaho Madams uncovers the enigmatic and salacious lives of 30 women who ran brothels in the Gem State from the 1850s to the 1980s. Here are the hedonistic and sometimes heroic exploits of Effie Rogan, Jennie Girard, Nettie Bowen, Ginger Murphy, Dixie Colton, and Dot Allen, but also the unsung sagas of Carrie Young, Grace Freeman, Willow Herman, Hattie Carlton, and many more. As told by author Milana Marsenich, the stories of these women come alive with voluptuous detail, historical photographs, and the social context of the times.

Publisher: Farcountry Press (March 3, 2023)

Print length:  160 pages

 

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About the Author

Award winning author, Milana Marsenich lives in Northwest Montana near Flathead Lake at the base of the beautiful Mission Mountains. She enjoys quick access to the mountains and has spent many hours hiking the wilderness trails with friends and dogs. For the past 20 years she has worked as a mental health therapist in a variety of settings. As a natural listener and a therapist, she has witnessed amazing generosity and courage in others. She first witnessed this in her hometown of Butte, Montana, a mining town with a rich history and the setting for Copper Sky, her first novel.

Copper Sky was chosen as a Spur Award finalist for Best Western Historical Novel in 2018. Her second novel, The Swan Keeper, was a Willa Award finalist in 2019. Her short story, Wild Dogs, won the Laura Award for short fiction in 2020.

She has an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling from Montana State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. She has previously published in Montana Quarterly, Big Sky Journal, The Polishing Stone, The Moronic Ox, BookGlow, and Feminist Studies. She has four published novels, Copper Sky, The Swan Keeper, Beautiful Ghost, and Shed Girl, and one popular history book, Idaho Madams. Her popular history book, Mary MacLane: Butte’s Wild Woman and her Wooden Heart, will be out sometime in 2025.

You can follow the author at:

Website: https://milanamarsenich.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MilanaMarsenichAuthor

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