WRITING LIFE: YOUR STORIES MATTER is a guide to telling your life stories through creative nonfiction writing. Using engaging examples and hands-on exercises, Linda Apple teaches how to “write what you know” and make the mundane come to life through observation, humor, and detail. Covering all types of writing, from books and blogs to cookbooks and devotionals, Apple will inspire you to write your story in whatever form you are comfortable. Why? Because your stories matter.

Writing Life: Your Stories Matter

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Apple, Linda

Words, Language & Grammar

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Avalee Preston tries to silence the demons from her past and takes a chance at love with Ty Jackson, a man twelve years her junior and the brother to her long-dead fiance. As if she needs another complication in her life, his parents resent her, and he has grown children. Is love really enough for them to build a life together or is she confusing it with a fairy tale? Just what is love anyway? Maybe love was never intended for her after all. Ty deserves better.

Avalee's Gift (Moonlight Mississippi)

Literature & Fiction

Women's Fiction

The Wild Rose Press, Inc.

Lexi Lowe is doing fine, thank you very much. Even after her worthless husband cheated on her and wound up in prison. Good riddance. As a single woman, she has her own column in the local paper and is working with the handsome mayor of Moonlight on ways to increase tourism. She also has a long-distance relationship with a famous newsman who lives in New York City. Yes, she is just fine, until she receives a letter from her ex-husband informing her that he is terminally ill and is being discharged on a compassionate release. He has nowhere to go and asks her to let him live out his last days in the home they once shared. This is not fine. Her world is about to be turned upside down--again. But allowing her ex to move home isn't the only choice she has to make. She must also choose to make peace with her painful past. But how?

Lexi's Choice (Moonlight Mississippi)

Wild Rose Press

On Washington Avenue in Moonlight, Mississippi, four friends, single and over fifty, find themselves in the age-old conundrum--they're too old to be young, but way too young to be old. All of them are ready for another chance at love. But when that chance comes to each of them, it brings startling surprises and secrets that threaten their hopes for love.

Women of Washington Avenue

The Wild Rose Press, Inc. (Fiction)

Winston Learns the Meaning of Christmas (Winston's Wisdom)

Some gifts don't come in a package. For Winston, winter time brings some strange things. Sugar sets up a tree inside the house, white stuff covers his front yard, and the strangest of all, there are alien deer in the front yard. They glow at night. Winston doesn't like them in his yard and does his best to scare them off. But they refuse. In his quest to run off these stubborn beasts, he learns a valuable lesson about kindness.

Children's Books

Animals

Lee Press

Some gifts don't come in a package. For Winston, winter time brings some strange things. Sugar sets up a tree inside the house, white stuff covers his front yard, and the strangest of all, there are alien deer in the front yard. They glow at night. Winston doesn't like them in his yard and does his best to scare them off. But they refuse. In his quest to run off these stubborn beasts, he learns a valuable lesson about kindness.

Winston and the Mystery of the Alien Rock (Winston's Wisdom)

A huge black cloud filled with metallic splinters burst under the bomber and caused it to rock violently, tearing holes in the aluminum fuselage. Two bursts hit close. The third hit the in-board engine on the right wing and it burst into flame. All was searing smoke and screaming metal and roaring flame. Boots bailed out of the disintegrating plane, falling head first. When he pulled the ripcord it jerked him up with such force it shattered two vertebrae in his neck. His hands were paralyzed and he couldn’t guide his parachute. Boots floated helplessly to earth under the billowing thirty-foot silk canopy. All around him was a cacophony of anti-aircraft fire. Shrapnel and wreckage from destroyed airplanes hurtled past him. Fear and dread filled his mind. What if this wreckage hits me or my parachute and drags me down to certain death? In the deafening noise of all this melee, he cried out, “God, help me!” What Boots endured in the German POW camps would test the limits of any man. But near death, he finds hope at his most hopeless and discovers the strength to survive. Through his life, the promises he kept gave meaning and purpose to his life and inspired countless others.

POW: Promises Kept

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Pen-L Publishing

WINSTON, A SCOTTISH TERRIER, is the Top Dog in Charge (TDIC) at his house. By sharing his own mishaps and challenges, he helps children deal with issues ranging from buzzy-bees in his belly to learning how to 'apawlogize' to others. His "peoples" Sugar and Babe, help him learn essential things like accepting differences, following rules, and dealing with anger. Winston ends his stories with a few words of wisdom and a new comment. Children of all ages can share Winston's adventures as he uses his 'sniffer' to discover what really matters. Sugar (Linda Apple) is an award-winning author of children's picture books and inspirational non-fiction. Linda and Winston enjoy visiting schools and helping children learn what it really means to be the Top Dog in Charge of your life. Winston invites all his friends and their 'peoples' to check out his interactive website: winstonswisdom.com

Winston's World: The Way He Sniffs It

Solander Press

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Writing Life: Your Stories Matter

Avalee's Gift (Moonlight Mississippi)

Lexi's Choice (Moonlight Mississippi)

Women of Washington Avenue

Winston Learns the Meaning of Christmas (Winston's Wisdom)

Winston Learns the Meaning of Christmas (Winston's Wisdom)

Winston and the Mystery of the Alien Rock (Winston's Wisdom)

Winston and the Mystery of the Alien Rock (Winston's Wisdom)

POW: Promises Kept

Winston's World: The Way He Sniffs It