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Judi, I have been thrown for a loop. I wanted to begin writing my new book about home decorating last month. Instead, I fell and broke my leg. My spirit is crushed. How do I get going? –Maria T., Daytona Beach FL
Snooping Can Be Scary; Snooping Can Be Uncomfortable; Snooping Can Be Helpful– Sometimes; Onward & Upward; Missing Sammy; Snooping Can Be Doggone Deadly; Snooping Can Be Devious; Snooping Can Be Contagious; Snooping Can Be Dangerous; The Best Darn Secret; and anthologies Easter Lilies; Broken Petals; Wild Daisies; and These Haunted Hills
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Monday, March 2, 7 pm Tazewell County Habitat for Humanity Vice Chair – Meeting Tazewell, VA
Maria, visualize your finished book in your hands. Just use a legal pad and start making notes. Outline the first chapter. Keep it simple with four or five major points. Then, write a few paragraphs in longhand. Try to do three things for your reader: entertain, inform, and inspire. Finish one chapter and keep going. –Judi Light Hopson
GEORGE JUSTICE
holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Detroit. He has been published three times for short stories, twice for poetry, and was the movie critic for Oakland County’s Daily Tribune (1978–79). As a U.S. Army veteran, he wrote numerous articles (from human interest to military) for Stars and Stripes. He is the father of two, the grandfather of two, and with an extended family of over 200 in the hills of Kentucky who serve as the cornerstones to this story. He and his wife reside in Ferndale, Michigan. Greezy Creek is his first novel.
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Appalachian Authors Guild meets at Shoney’s in Abingdon, VA, 11:30 am to 1:30 pm on March 10, 2020. At this general meeting the AAG authors attending will in 3–4 minutes each tell about their books, their platform, hand out flyers, etc. All are welcome to come and enjoy this informative session.
George R. Justice
Appalachian Authors Guild Meeting
Saturday, March 14, 10 am – 4 pm Book Signing, Food City Vansant, VA Saturday, March 21, 10 am – 4 pm Book Signing, Food City Abingdon, VA Saturday, March 28, 10 am – 4 pm Book Signing, Food City Wise, VA
Rita Sims Quillen Hiding Ezra WORDSTREAM-WDVX Friday, March 27, 2020, 12 – 1 pm Knoxville Visitor’s Center Knoxville, TN
99¢ E-Book Special! Greezy Creek
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entucky’s Appalachian Highlands (circa. 1930’s) is a world where habits and customs often bewilder: where the ties of kinship and ancestry hold to unswerving lines, and where enduring love stands as a bulwark against those hell-bent on opposing it. A compelling coming-of-age narrative, part murder mystery, part family saga, Greezy Creek tells of an Appalachia honed by the unacquainted ways of the Scot-Irish hybrids cloistered in its deepest regions; where moonshiners leave incipient trails and the strains of hard times too often coalesce into the empty-eyed face of hardscrabble. It’s also a place where two childhood friends, Bobby Yonts and Rubin Cain (as good as brothers), come of age and test the limits of things new and out of bounds. But it’s the odious hand of cruelty that underscores the unraveling of their naivety and binds them to the unwritten code of the mountains, one which guarantees you’re going to get what’s coming to you. Character driven with rich historical insights, Greezy Creek takes readers behind the veil of a family known for its fierce ingrained independence; a family bound by self-determination and all that’s necessary to survive. Yet, even from their bittersweet and ill-famed existence comes the imprint of their wit and wisdom, the uniqueness of their wilderness ways, and what it means to be bound by blood.
Tuesday, March 3, 5 am – 8 pm Officer of Election, Bishop Precinct Bishop, VA
Saturday, March 7, 10 am – 4 pm Book Signing, Food City St. Paul, VA Tuesday, March 10, 11:30 am – 1:30 pm Appalachian Authors Guild – General Meeting, Shoney’s Abingdon, VA
Greezy Creek A Novel
George R. Justice
The first full week in March is National Read an E-Book Week! Book lovers and writers alike can celebrate the week by downloading an e-book and getting cozy with a hot cup of tea or coffee. JCP has a long and varied list of e-book options for readers, such as Greezy Creek by George R. Justice! Available on Amazon. com and Barnesandnoble.com.
(Through 3/16/20)
About the Book: A first-person narrative, Greezy Creek tells of an Appalachia honed by the unacquainted ways of the Scot-Irish hybrids cloistered in its deepest regions. The story follows two childhood friends, Bobby Yonts and Rubin Cain, as they learn and grow into adulthood. Character-driven with rich historical insights, Greezy Creek takes readers behind the veil of a family known for its fierce ingrained independence; a family bound by self-determination and all that’s necessary to survive. Yet, even from their bittersweet and illfamed existence comes the imprint of their wit and wisdom, the uniqueness of their wilderness ways, and what it means to be bound by blood.
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