Donny Bailey Seagraves is a children's book author living in Winterville, Georgia. Her debut children's middle grade novel, Gone From These Woods, was published by Random House. She also is an online books and collectibles seller at Junebug Books and Collectibles, which she founded in 1998.
What are you burning with? Spring is the time to apply fingers to your favorite keyboard and get to work on a story or article that matters to you. If you're stuck and can't think of something to write, try a writing prompt.
Meet Agent Jill Corcoran of the Herman Agency. Jill will speak about Great Expectations: What are the expectations on both sides of the author/agent relationship? and on What Makes a Manuscript Sale-able at SpringMingle '13 in Atlanta, GA, Feb. 22-24, 2013, sponsored by the Southern Breeze Region of SCBWI.
2013 sounds like an unlucky number. But I'm filled with optimism as we begin a new year. A new year always offers possibilities. Hopefully, this will be a year for a new book and maybe even a new life. Who knows?
Read MoreLast night I had dinner with one of my favorite authors, Barbara O'Connor. She's in Athens, Georgia this weekend to speak at this year's Children's Literature Conference at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the University of Georgia campus and graciously agreed to dine with a group of writers before the conference. Barbara O'Connor is charming, funny, and friendly, though she admitted to being an introvert, like many writers.
Read MoreFor those of you who missed our recent Boomersinathens.org Winterville: History of a Railroad Town community snapshot program at the historic Winterville train depot, here's a link to the video of the program on Youtube: Winterville: History of a Railroad Town. And here's a link that we made to promote this Winterville History program. This program was part of the BoomersinAthens.org three year grant to document the Baby Boom generation in the Athens, GA area.
Read MoreFedEx delivered my brand new digital age baby today: The amazing, fantastic, unbelievably retina-screened iPad third generation, or as I nicknamed it, iPad 3. To use a cliche, it was love at first sight. Sleek, shiny, brilliant, fast, and more, this little darling is definitely my new favorite. iPad 2 is sad but is also coming to grips with being adopted by my husband Phillip. If you haven't checked out the iPad 3 or even the iPad 2, which now is an excellent bargain at $399, you should head to your nearest retailer and meet your future child.
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Donny Bailey Seagraves is an author living in the small, Southern town of Winterville, Georgia. Her debut novel is Gone From These Woods, published in hardback and ebook editions by Delacorte Press, Random House, in 2009, and in paperback by Yearling in 2011. She is also a published magazine article and newspaper writer and founded the online books and collectibles business, Junebug Books and Collectibles in 1998.
Donny Bailey Seagraves is a children's book author living in Winterville, Georgia. Her debut children's middle grade novel, Gone From These Woods, was published by Random House. She also is an online books and collectibles seller at Junebug Books and Collectibles, which she founded in 1998.
