by Lisa Marlin | Jun 9, 2013 | Penny Story Blog
I am going to take a bold step and share a draft of the first page of my second novel here. At all the writing conferences I have attended, there is always a session where editors read the first page of a writer’s manuscript and comment as to whether they would...
by Lisa Marlin | Nov 21, 2010 | Penny Story Blog
I was leaving my friend’s office the other day where I had stopped for an “atta girl” that I had desperately needed. It was one of those drizzly, gray, heavy-hearted days, when I saw it. Pressed into the wet, gravelly road, I knew it didn’t...
by Lisa Marlin | Jun 9, 2010 | Penny Story Blog
How else do I explain my absence from my blog page? Like a penny that slips silently from a pocket into the deep swallows of couch cushions, the twists and turns in my life since the last posting have sent me to places I’d never expected to be in 2010. But, that...
by Lisa Marlin | Dec 14, 2009 | Penny Story Blog
The fun just never ends around here! On Dec. 14, the 4th grade students in Mrs. Jen McQuitty’s class in Hooper, CO, and their counterparts in Steve Bergen’s computer class in Harlem, NY, shared what books they are reading with each other. Forty kids in all...
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