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Book Tour and Spotlight: Sir Stan the Bogeyman by Stacie Morrell

09 16 13

HAVE YOU READ TO A CHILD TODAY? Here’s a new rhyming book with a great message and your chance to WIN AN AUTHOR SIGNED COPY to read with the little ones in your life or give as a gift. ~ Bette A. Stevens, http://www.4writersandreaders.com

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Welcome to the Spotlight of Sir Stan the Bogeyman.  I am rather partial to rhyming books, and this one is particularly good.   The rhyming is excellent and the story just right for children  –  not too scary,  but carrying just the right amount of intrigue to keep them sitting to attention.  
Plus,  there is a bonus  –  Enter the rafflecopter and you could win a signed paperback copy of Sir Stan the Bogeyman.
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Sir Stan the BogeymanBook Description:

Do dark places bother you?

The space under your bed…

The closet, door slightly ajar…

Do you believe in the Bogeyman?

Who is he?

Where did he come from?

What does he want?

Maybe he has a story to tell,

And we should listen.

 
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Author Stacie Morrell

About Stacie:

Accomplishments: Started a used bookstore for the Friends of the Wilsonville Library, subject of Oregonian article, published in: Antiques and Collectibles Magazine, Bookman’s AB Magazine, Antique Trader…

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Butterflies…like short-lived punctuation marks, quote by Haruki Murakami

09 15 13

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“Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.” HARUKI MURAKAMI, IQ84

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Who cares?.

Click the link to find out how we can change the world for the better, one person at a time! ~ Bette A. Stevens

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Spotlight and Review: Pure Trash – The Story by Bette A. Stevens

09 12 13

Another 5-STAR Review for PURE TRASH! My thanks to Amelia Curzon at Carte Blanche for reading it and taking the time to write such an insightful review! ~ Bette A. Stevens http://www.4writersandreaders.com

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Bette Stevens is probably best known for her highly successful children’s book, Amazing Matilda. Now she has dipped her toes into the deep waters of young adult literature with her new book, Pure Trash – The Story.

Having already read Bette’s ‘Amazing Matilda’, I was delighted to be asked to read this one as well. Though aimed at an older audience, it is still written in the same generous and caring tone. Set in the 1950’s, Pure Trash highlights the sense of social injustice doled out when two children are condemned and forever tainted because of their father’s alcoholism and the family’s unmitigated poverty.

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Pure Trash is a short story focused on a day in the lives of two young boys, Shawn and Willie Daniels. They are extremely poor, have a drunken father, a long-suffering mother and live in a shack in 1950’s America; located near a small…

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New Van Gogh painting discovered

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New Van Gogh painting discovered.

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Indie Authors: Feeling Overwhelmed? Tolstoy Has The Answer.

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Full Circle

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A lifetime in a poem… It’s beautiful! ~ Bette A. Stevens

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When I was a kid

Catching grasshoppers

During recess was cool

Running after balls

Playing hop scotch

Dressing up in costumes

Making friends

Wereclock delights in life

My first date

The first kiss

Falling in love

Tears from break-ups

Saying I do

Kissing my new baby

Crying their first day of school

Seeing them repeat my own times

Having fun learning about life

Hearing their vows

Of saying I do

Makes me realize

Life is full circle

And I was a

The one

Who made

It all happen.

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Celebrating Summer’s Cessation with a poem…

09 04 13

I love nature and usually have a little notepad and pencil with my on my nature walks. Nature is inspiring… I was resting and reflecting down by one of my favorite spots, a lovely little brook nearby.  Suddenly a few golden word nuggets grabbed me when I spotted the fall asters dancing in the breeze. ~ Bette A. Stevens

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Pure Trash Has Been Added to Book Club Reading List

09 04 13

Pure Trash offers book clubs an insight and pause for thought into what a child goes through living in abject poverty in a small town.

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A 1950s Short Story Review by Kathryn Elizabeth Jones

09 02 13

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1950a General Fiction: first book for Middle-grade/YA/Adult Audience by award-winning children's book author Bette A. Stevens

1950s General Fiction: first book for Middle-grade/YA/Adult Audience by award-winning children’s book author Bette A. Stevens

This short story is filled with images and flavor only better provided by an ice cream cone.

Available in kindle and paperback at

http://www.amazon.com/PURE-TRASH-The-Story-ebook/dp/B00EH0RV6K/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376412782&sr=1-1&keywords=PURE+TRASH%2C+The+Story

Read Kathryn’s  great review at Idea-creations.blogspot (top link) . We would love to hear from you!

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