Comments on: Where our fiction really lives, by guest blogger Linda Gillard http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973 Anne Mini's Blog Sat, 12 May 2012 17:38:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Linda Gillard http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26992 Linda Gillard Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:38:02 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26992 Thanks, Jinnayah, for your very kind words. Thanks also for ordering EG from your library. I was glad the book spoke to you. Thanks too to your husband on guide dog duty! ;-) Thanks, Jinnayah, for your very kind words. Thanks also for ordering EG from your library. I was glad the book spoke to you.

Thanks too to your husband on guide dog duty! ;-)

]]> By: Jinnayah http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26951 Jinnayah Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:52:47 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26951 This time my local library did not take me up on the suggestion to buy _Emotional Geology_, but they did ILL it for me from out-of-state. I read it in a single day, finishing the last pages while walking home (with my husband scouting out the sidewalk for me just ahead). Thank you for the lovely book, Linda, and thank you equally for the wonderful account you wrote here. You will give (and surely have already given) courage to budding artists unsure how to channel the creativity pouring out of them. This time my local library did not take me up on the suggestion to buy _Emotional Geology_, but they did ILL it for me from out-of-state. I read it in a single day, finishing the last pages while walking home (with my husband scouting out the sidewalk for me just ahead).

Thank you for the lovely book, Linda, and thank you equally for the wonderful account you wrote here. You will give (and surely have already given) courage to budding artists unsure how to channel the creativity pouring out of them.

]]> By: Christine Coleman http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26701 Christine Coleman Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:52:49 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26701 Hi Linda Although I've heard you talk a llittle about 'your story' Iwas grippedfrom beginning to end of this account. I can't tell you how delighted I am with your continued success. Hope we can meet up again one of these days Love Christine. Hi Linda
Although I’ve heard you talk a llittle about ‘your story’ Iwas grippedfrom beginning to end of this account.
I can’t tell you how delighted I am with your continued success. Hope we can meet up again one of these days
Love Christine.

]]> By: Linda Gillard http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26656 Linda Gillard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:35:25 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26656 Thank you, Auburn. It's difficult not to feel overwhelmed by this sort of illness, either as a sufferer or a carer. What I discovered was that it's possible to rebuild your life page by page, day by day. Writing is a wonder drug that can transform us. Thank you, Auburn.

It’s difficult not to feel overwhelmed by this sort of illness, either as a sufferer or a carer. What I discovered was that it’s possible to rebuild your life page by page, day by day. Writing is a wonder drug that can transform us.

]]> By: Auburn McCanta http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26655 Auburn McCanta Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:12:03 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26655 Thank you for sharing your story, Linda. You give hope to those who might otherwise be overwhelmed. Your work is magical and honest and I can't get enough. You capture the imagination and then hold it up like a precious gift; a rare quality indeed! Thank you, Anne for featuring this lovely writer. Thank you for sharing your story, Linda. You give hope to those who might otherwise be overwhelmed. Your work is magical and honest and I can’t get enough. You capture the imagination and then hold it up like a precious gift; a rare quality indeed!

Thank you, Anne for featuring this lovely writer.

]]> By: Linda Gillard http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26645 Linda Gillard Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:54:44 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26645 Mark - Glad you enjoyed my contribution. Good luck with BROKEN SAINT. It sounds fascinating. Terrific cover too! Rhapsodyinbooks - Thank you! I'd be delighted to join you on your blog. Erica & Margaret - Many thanks for your support and kind words. :-) Mark – Glad you enjoyed my contribution. Good luck with BROKEN SAINT. It sounds fascinating. Terrific cover too!

Rhapsodyinbooks – Thank you! I’d be delighted to join you on your blog.

Erica & Margaret – Many thanks for your support and kind words. :-)

]]> By: Margaret Powling http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26641 Margaret Powling Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:14:15 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26641 Linda alerted me to her guest blog. I have known her for 20 years or more and am privileged to call her my friend. She is an exquisite novelist and even if she weren't my friend, I would still recommend her books to everyone who reads this guest blog. Linda alerted me to her guest blog. I have known her for 20 years or more and am privileged to call her my friend. She is an exquisite novelist and even if she weren’t my friend, I would still recommend her books to everyone who reads this guest blog.

]]> By: Erica http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26640 Erica Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:52:46 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26640 As a fan of Linda's work, I found that piece fascinating, and would venture an observation: those readers who have been kept up so late into the night have been so detained not only because of the unputdownable nature of her tales, but also due to the beauty and lyricism of her writing. For me, it is the latter that does it. It's read-aloud stuff. If you read this, Linda, thank you for the beautiful books; and if anyone else reads this and hasn't read her yet then may I humbly suggest that you do. As a fan of Linda’s work, I found that piece fascinating, and would venture an observation: those readers who have been kept up so late into the night have been so detained not only because of the unputdownable nature of her tales, but also due to the beauty and lyricism of her writing. For me, it is the latter that does it. It’s read-aloud stuff. If you read this, Linda, thank you for the beautiful books; and if anyone else reads this and hasn’t read her yet then may I humbly suggest that you do.

]]> By: Linda Gillard http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26639 Linda Gillard Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:25:44 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26639 Good for you, Janet! And good luck with your novels. Good for you, Janet! And good luck with your novels.

]]> By: Janet http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973&cpage=1#comment-26637 Janet Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:12:04 +0000 http://www.annemini.com/?p=4973#comment-26637 What a joy to read your blog. Writing saved me after my husband died. While losing him, a family member was struck with mental illness. It has opened my heart and my eyes to an overlooked world that can't be wished away. It is what it is. It is biological, but there is hope for recovery. In the meantime, I'm writing away and getting essays published. The novels are next as I pass 55. What a joy to read your blog. Writing saved me after my husband died. While losing him, a family member was struck with mental illness. It has opened my heart and my eyes to an overlooked world that can’t be wished away. It is what it is. It is biological, but there is hope for recovery. In the meantime, I’m writing away and getting essays published. The novels are next as I pass 55.

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