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LitFriends Newsletter: Your Voice: An idea or a living entity?

LitFriends Newsletter: Your Voice: An Idea or a Living entity? Writers distort the limitations of time. When Bob Seger wrote Like a Rock, he animated the feeling of being a fit teenager on an endorphin-fueled run. I drove to St Louis to see Seger on his farewell tour. His white hair and small shrunken body, …

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LITFRENDS Newsletter #4 Summer Road Trip

A Call for Messy Truths… LITFRIENDS Newsletter#3 This is the online version of our newsletter from Jack Walker Press, Amy Lou Jenkins, and FirstPerson Writing Mothers and Fathers and Messy Histories This Mothers and Fathers Day season has me thinking of my roots and family stories. If you’ve ever watched Skip Gates’ Finding Your Roots, …

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LITFRENDS Newsletter #3 A Call For Messy Truths

A Call for Messy Truths… LITFRIENDS Newsletter#3 This is the online version of our newsletter from Jack Walker Press, Amy Lou Jenkins, and FirstPerson Writing Mothers and Fathers and Messy Histories This season of Mother’s and Father’s Day has me thinking of my roots and of family stories. If you’ve ever watched Skip Gates’ Finding …

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LITFRENDS Newsletter #2 Sleeping with the Enigma

Sleeping with the Enigma of Poetry, Nonfiction, and More… LITFRIENDS Newsletter#2 This is the online version of our newsletter from Jack Walker Press, Amy Lou Jenkins, and FirstPerson Writing National Poetry Month sparks thoughts of poetry even in a newsletter with a focus on creative nonfiction So, I went to bed thinking about a latent …

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LITFRENDS Newsletter #1 Boomshakalaka! Here We Go

Boomshakalaka, Boomshakalaka Here We Go… LITFRIENDS Newsletter#1 This is the online version of our newsletter from Jack Walker Press, Amy Lou Jenkins, and FirstPerson Writing LITFRIENDS*, I’m convinced, more than ever, that this divisive world needs your words and stories. So, I’ve retired from college teaching, and I’m here to support your literature–your words and …

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Resolved to Read in the New Year

Amy Lou Jenkins offers five reasons plus a bonus reason to resolve to read at least twelve books in the new year. Learn history and science because facts and analysis shape better thinking. Travel somewhere you can’t physically go and enjoy and meet a world beyond your experience. Experience ideas in verse that express meaning …

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New look at ‘Corners; Voices on Change’

New book trailer for ‘Corners; Voices on Change” I’ll be honest here.  We had a book trailer created for Corners when it first came out.  We never released it because it felt like the wrong tone.  The music sounded like an alternate theme to the Mission Impossible movie series.  Corners; Voices on Change is about the …

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‘Goodnight Dear One’ New Cover

Cute fox sleeps on the cover of Goodnight Dear One

Read more about children’s books from JWP: Click here. We’ve got a new book cover on our Ebook edition of ‘Goodnight Dear One.’ Readers have praised the loving, calming story for its engaging pictures and loving words.  Animals, babies, and toddlers all slow down and go to sleep. The mood of love and comfort We …

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Goodnight Dear One with Holiday 99cent Sale

Early Release Date for the Holidays: Goodnight Dear One Surround your dear little one in a world of love with bedtime reading.  Animals and more from around the world send wishes and blessings in a calming and supportive tale all about your dear one.  Goodnight Dear One is bedtime reading to create a bonding ritual …

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