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Archive for June, 2009

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 5 & Featured Video: Stages 4 (legal) & 5 (production)

FREE AUDIO BOOK! Leave a comment on this week’s featured video and become eligible for winning a free copy of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Janet will run a raffle using random numbers among the comments. Wow! Two posts up this Monday June 29th…and a podcast this Friday, July 3rd. Week [...]

Book Raves for “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.”

Kendra Bonnett reviews “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music” on Women’s Memoirs Book Raves. Here’s an excerpt from her review: Although Sightlines is very personal, the reader is not left outside to be a distant observer, peering through a cracked door or listening at the keyhole. The reader recognizes the history, the [...]

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 4 & Featured Video: Stages 2 (editing) & 3 (technical)

Week Four June 22-26 We’re into week four now, with 1/3 of the tour completed. Thanks for those of you following the tour. Go to Eden’s site for this week’s TREASURE HUNT CLUE. Then, contact Janet with the answer to win a FREE copy of our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry [...]

Teleseminar Recording: Memoir Moments with Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler

Don’t miss the recording of our tele-seminar at Kendra Bonnett & Matilda Butler’s Women’s Memoirs site as they feature our teleseminar conversation on Memoir Moments. Kendra and Matilda introduce the recording like this: If you missed our informative conversation with Janet Grace Riehl, author of the memoir CD called Sightlines: A Family Love Story in [...]

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 3 & Featured Video. Stage 1: Recording your audiobook.

Follow the blog tour TREASURE HUNT to receive a free copy of our new audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Week Three June 15-19 17 Sharman Apt Russell interviews Janet on the themes of love, place, and meaning on her group blog Love of Place celebrating place and a greater [...]

Mary Ruth Donnelly reviews Sharman Apt Russell Memoir: “Standing in the Light”

MEMOIR MOVES READER INTO LIGHT In Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist, Sharman Apt Russell invites the reader on a quest to resolve the tensions inevitable to one who proposes to live consciously: living in the nature of the beautiful Gila Valley, New Mexico versus maintaining a job and children’s activities in [...]

Sightlines Blog Tour Week Two & Featured Video; Studio Tour & Working Process

Week Two June 8-12 9 Claire Applewhite interviews Janet on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Book Blog where Claire is a contributing writer. Claire’s most recent and fifth release is The Wrong Side of Memphis, a noir mystery novel. Claire and I are both members of the St. Louis Writers Guild. 11 Kendra Bonnet & Matilda [...]

Road Runner vs. Coyote, Story Circle Network’s Creative Catalyst

Ever been afraid when you were trying to start, carry through, or come to a conclusion on a creative project? Here’s some help from the Creative Catalyst little ol’ me, on Story Circle blog Telling Her Stories.