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Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:50:08 AM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Another Epiphany:
Kristin said, " My apologies -- as a writer, I feel I should be offering something earth-shattering, or at least something original, but I'm not. What I offer is a trailer of what has come before, what is coming to me now, and will doubtless..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled A Rose Named Stinkweed:
Kristin said, " What's in a name? that which we call a..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled The Sad Truth:
Kristin said, "I'm never going to write that break-through novel. That best-seller that sets everyone on their ear -- it won't be coming from me. Have I given up? Absolutely not. I've just come to a realization. Granted, I'm a bit slow, but I did finally get..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled A Case of Logistics:
Kristin said, ""Can't you write any faster?" is a regular complaint from my mother, who gets to listen to each new chapter immediately after it's written. It's kind of like following Dickens' serial of The Pickwick Papers. My mother easily gobbles up three novels..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Thanks for the Memories:
Kristin said, "I have been fortunate to have been part of TD Canadian Children's Bookweek twice. In 2004, I toured the communities around Lake Ontario, and in 2009, I toured the Lower North Shore of Quebec. As I prepare to apply for 2014, I came upon my final..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Yes, the Truth Hurts:
Kristin said, "This morning my daughter sent two photos: one of herself at her 1989 grade nine grad and the other of her this morning, straight from bed complete with zero make-up and bed-head and again in the dress she wore to her grade nine..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled The Long Arm of Recycling:
Kristin said, "Reduce, Reuse, Renew. A million years ago, when I was teaching grade 7 social studies, there was a unit on ecosystems and the environment. That was in the mid-eighties, when the concept of recycling was just making its way into the public's..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled An Interview with Me:
Kristin said, "This is not actually a blog, but an interview and that can be insightful too. I hope you enjoy. Click HERE to be taken to the link."
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Not a Writing Entry:
Kristin said, "My kids and their families are connecting. My daughter, her husband, and four kids have driven from near Toronto to Winnipeg to visit with my son, his wife, and their two children. And here am I on the other side of Canada. Who's going to stop the..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled My New Name!:
Kristin said, "When I published my first book, someone asked if I was using a pen name. "Of course not!" I replied. "I want people to know I wrote this book. I want to be able to plant myself in the bookstores and point it out." Heck, I would have stood at the..." more
Thursday, September 5, 2013 5:59:27 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Messing with History:
Kristin said, "In past posts, I have mentioned my interest in genealogy and some of the amazing things I've learned about my ancestors. I wish I could take credit for these discoveries, but the truth is I've had a ton of help. My cousins (one in Ontario and a..." more
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:44:09 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Livin' the Life ...:
Kristin said, "Am I travelling to exotic places? Yes. Am I inheriting a fortune? I have done. Am I falling in love? Over and over. Am I chasing a mystery? Regularly. At least, my characters are, and that's pretty much the same thing. You see, the relationship..." more
Thursday, February 7, 2013 12:14:15 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Why Outline?:
Kristin said, "As a rule, I'm not a list maker, but once in a while I accumulate so many tasks on my plate, that instead of simply doing them, I begin playing tag with my thoughts. I try so hard to remember the things I need to do and sort out the order in which I..." more
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 3:10:13 AM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled So This is Networking:
Kristin said, " In just over three weeks Truths I Learned from Sam will be released. This is my 19th book (my 20th will be out in April), but holding that new book in my hands never gets old. When my first book came out almost sixteen years ago, all I did..." more
Monday, January 21, 2013 10:17:53 AM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled The Importance of Setting:
Kristin said, "Write a story without a setting? It's like trying to write a story without a character. I don't think it can be done. A story has to happen to somone or something, even if it's just a grain of sand, and it has to happen sometime and somewhere. The..." more
Monday, January 21, 2013 10:17:53 AM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Initiative and Manners, Please:
Kristin said, "Within a week, I received two school-project-prompted requests for information about me and my books. This is not unusual. English teachers are always assigning book reports, and I am pleased to know that mine are some of the books students are..." more
Sunday, December 2, 2012 10:12:57 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Lights, Camera, Action!:
Kristin said, "No, I don't have a novel being made into a movie (yet), but it was a great facsimile this afternoon as the filming for the book trailer for one of my spring books, The Truths I Learned From Sam got underway. I know I complain about how technology..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 6:38:55 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Writing for your Life:
Kristin said, "Yesterday I Skyped for almost an hour and a half with a fellow writer. The two of us met about eight years ago while touring for Children's Book Week. Our real life paths haven't crossed again since, but we have kept in touch through the social..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 6:38:55 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Get Thee to an Editor:
Kristin said, "Self-publishing. Hmmmn... I just don't know. I don't think it's for me, mostly because I prefer to write rather than attend to the business of writing. I know very little about self-publishing, and I am happy to keep it that way. I understand how..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 6:38:55 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled My Anti-social Approach to Social Networking:
Kristin said, "I must be getting old. I know this, not just from my reflection in the mirror or from my body's refusal to do things it used to do without any coaxing at all -- such as standing up after kneeling down or reading the telephone directory without a..." more
Friday, November 30, 2012 6:38:55 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled A Disservice to Teens:
Kristin said, "Truths I Learned from Sam, a YA novel coming out early next spring was reviewed in today's edition of CM Magazine (a great online review journal). Of course, I wanted a rave review. What I got was respectable. I'm disappointed, but the review was..." more
Sunday, August 26, 2012 3:43:58 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled Head Games:
Kristin said, "Remember that song, Head Games, by Foreigner way back in the late 70's? It was about a love relationship that was driving one of the partners crazy. I never really knew the lyrics, but I could sing the chorus and the song had a good beat to bop..." more
Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:50:45 AM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled The Book Thief -- A Mixed Review:
Kristin said, " The Book Thief/Markus Zusak I didn't love it. I didn't hate it either, but I didn't love it, and because everyone else I've ever spoken to did love it, I can't help but think the problem must be with me. The writing was brilliant -- there's..." more
Friday, June 29, 2012 10:14:58 PM
Kristin Butcher wrote a blog post titled An Epiphany:
Kristin said, "Those of you who have read some of my previous blogs know that I have a passion for words that begin with E. For some reason E words are the most musical -- epistomology, endemic, egregious, ephemeral ... I love the sound of them all. So when I have..." more
Thursday, September 29, 2016 8:58:48 AM
Kristin Butcher made friends with Shelley Workinger