This year's theme  for the WUFC Writing Contest is: The Drive to Thrive. We are accepting submissions until midnight on August 15th, 2013. WUFC / Writers Unite to Fight Cancer is a group of authors who raise money for cancer research.

Everyone over the age of 18 is eligible to enter the WUFC writing contest. Contestants may have been published before, or be a first time writer. Subject matter may be on any topic as long as it follows the theme of the…

Thanksgiving. The child's fever is abating. Our friends insist that Thanksgiving is tomorrow, so that, despite said child's illness, we can join them. My little one helped me make what turned out to be not one but two pie crusts. I have never used so much butter in my life. In a little bit, I'm about to start the pumpkin pies themselves. My writing critique group is so full of thanks for each other. The kittens continue to be a delight. I got to sleep in. I got a walk today. We live in…

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“I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”                           - Albert Einstein

Is obsession a bad thing? Sometimes it can be especially if your obsession is a person. But for most careers and most dreams…

One of the biggest parts that goes into writing a book is research. You can either view it as a boring, chore, or as an exciting new adventure. Either way it's often a…

A few months ago, a friend asked me before departing to France on sabbatical if she should be concerned about anti-Semitism there. "Oh no," I said, dismissing her concerns. Now, in the wake of the Toulouse Jewish school shooting, I see I may have been wrong to be so…

Gretl Claggett: Your latest book, The Paper Garden: An Artist {Begins Her Life’s Work} at 72, is a bold, risky, tour-de-force that defies categorization—released at a time when publishing is playing it safe. Tell us about the genesis of this book, your extensive research, and how you came to intertwine your personal story with the biography of your protagonist, Mrs. Delany, who lived…

The first review of Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė appeared a few days ago. And even though this isn't my first book or review, it's still a wild ride to have strangers reading my work.

In her review of the book, Claire Posner points to a major challenge that I faced…

The day before yesterday I received a note from my publisher saying that copies of my book had arrived in the warehouse, and that I could begin announcing its publication. Though my official date of publication is March 1, 2012, the baby’s come early. It’s a strange and great feeling to know that my book is now ready for readers.

The process of…

Janette Rallison will be one of the Arizona authors participating in the Writers Unite to Fight Cancer (WUFC) Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser. This event will be held on Thursday Evening, February 2nd, 2012 from 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm at the Arizona Biltmore, located at 2400 E. Missouri in Phoenix. Bring a friend, and books to be signed by Janette and the other Arizona authors. Each guest will receive a gift bag with one or more books and free samples from vendors.



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This is Who-Man. My son and I invented him over breakfast this morning.

Who-Man is a superhero whose arch-enemy is a many-eyed monster called “Crime.” Who-Man wears a bumpy suit (as you can see in Sebastian’s rendition of him above). The suit can shoot fire, but our hero rarely has to use this weapon. He has other ways of…

Each guest that purchases a ticket to the Writers Unite to Fight Cancer (WUFC) Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser  on February 2nd, 2012 will receive a gift bag. The first 160 guests to purchase a ticket will receive the book …

Recently, a fellow writer (who publishes short essays and pieces of travel writing) told me about a book she’d just finished reading. It was an excellent book she said, but added with wide eyes: “It took him seven years to write! That’s crazy. I could never do…

New Book: AZ Way Out West & Wacky featured at A+ Book Fairs 12/3/11…