Meredith Sue Willis

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Here's a webpage at Yahoo that I set up in about 5 minutes.

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Latest Writing Exercise:
Write like Trollope! 6-21-09

Books for Readers # 120
The Book Thief; Mark Rudd;
A Summer Reading List from Thulani Davis

Latest Publication: Short Story
"My Most Embarrassing"
Online at Two Hawks Quarterly

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The Heroic Novelists
My Glowing Career

 

Of General Interest

Kate Long interviews Irene McKinney, West Virginia's poet laureate, on Youtube .

Article on What Young Agents Want from Poets & Writers Magazine

Obituary of George Scheeman, who did the covers of two of my books:

More obituaries

There are also many excellent small literary magazines to read in hard copy and online. Bloodroot Literary Magazine , for example, has my story "Tara White." Read an excerpt here.

More things to Read

Article on MSW's Prose Narrative Class

What is a Kindle? My brother-in-law explains on NPR

The Hamilton Stone Review All-West Virginia Issue

How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.

Worst Query Letter Ever

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Featured Book

 

Quilt Pieces , a new edition of the 1990 chapbook with poems by Jane Wilson Joyce and Meredith Sue Willis's
most anthologized short story, "Family Knots."

 

....the story “Family Knots” by novelist Meredith Sue Willis sketches the life of a turn-of-the-century quilt artist who succeeded in blooming where she was planted in rural Appalachia. With determination and daring she pieces her way though difficult relationships, heavy responsibilities, and changing times, always searching for elusive scraps of color that will bring her dreams and patterns to life. Give yourself a gift of renewal in the jewel of a book.

 

                                      -- Carol Crowley, Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine

 

 

For those who love quilts, for those who love accomplished writing, and for those who love both, this small book will come as a gift.
      

                                                                        – Sojourner


...a short, comforting, poignant reading, much like the experience of the piecing, quilting, and family stitchery the work describes.

 

                                                                — Ann Kilkelly, Ace Magazine

 

 

 

Order directly from the publisher for
$12.50 plus $2.00 to help with postage:


GNOMON PRESS
P.O. Box 475
Frankfort, KY 40602-0475

 

 

 


 
 
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MSW's Books

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In the Mountains of America (Appalachian Short Stories )

Dwight's House and Other Stories
(Short Stories)

Oradell at Sea
(Novel)

The City Built of Starships
(Science Fiction)

Quilt Pieces (chapbook)

Higher Ground
(Novel-- First book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Only Great Changes
(Novel-- Second book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

Trespassers
(Novel-- Final book of the Blair Morgan Trilogy)

A Space Apart
(MSW's First Novel-- reprint edition)

Billie of Fish
House Lane
(Novel for Children )


The Secret Super
Powers of Marco
(Novel for Children )

Marco's Monster
(Novel for Children )

 

Blazing Pencils
(How-to-Write
Book for Students )

 

Personal Fiction Writing
(How-to-Write for Teachers & Writers )

Deep Revision
(How-to-Write for Teachers & Writers )