Author name: Carol Ervin

I have been lucky to have three highly engaging and interesting careers--first as a teacher, then the owner of a small business, and finally as a writer. I have been blessed by great friends, family, teachers, colleagues, and students, and I have lived in interesting places. My life has also been enriched by books, music, and art. I believe in the greatness and fallibility of the human race and our need to responsibility take care of our planet.

I love Kindle’s “Personal Documents” feature

2 Comments / Amazon, Drafts, ebook publishing, Editing, Kindle, Kindle Personal Documents, Kindleboards, Project Gutenberg, Research /

I’ll start with our personal use of Kindle’s Personal Documents. My husband prefers to read and store important manuals and technical documents on his Kindle. If they exist on the web as word processing or PDF files, they normally can be sent successfully to Kindle. I use the personal document feature to send chapters of […]

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Writing from scratch

3 Comments / Amazon, drafting, historical fiction, Ideas for a New Story, main characters, revising, sequel, Starting a New Story, The Girl on the Mountain, Writing /

Writing from scratch is harder than cooking from scratch, unless you’re copying someone else’s recipe. When you write from scratch, you must concoct the ingredients, too. The first ingredient of The Girl on the Mountain grew from my dream about a poor child huddled in bushes at the door of a privileged home. An open

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Guest Post: Lindy Moone killed the Twinkie

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Readers, I’d like you to meet Lindy, my American author friend who lives in Turkey, and who no doubt keeps those around her laughing all the time, because she cannot resist a joke or a pun. You have to love someone who introduces herself like this: The wildly enigmatic (mostly false) Lindy Moone comes from

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