Creative Catalyst: Fie on Fear! Success & Failure: Two Sides of a Coin

My collaborator and editor Stephanie Farrow and I blog monthly (1st Tuesday!) on Story Circle Network’s blog Telling Her Stories: The Broad View. We establish a theme in the anchor post and continue with two additional posts to deepen the theme. Cycle 3 in May-June-July considered “Fear: The Friendly Enemy.” This month we begin to…

Lit Lovers hosts Sightlines blog post, reader’s guide…and, a recipe for scrapple!

Week six of the Sightlines internet tour continues today at Molly Lundquist’s Lit Lovers site–geared for a well-read community of book clubs. Molly interviews Janet about her inspiration for the Sightlines Collection, posts a reader’s guide with reviews, and includes a scrapple recipe from Janet’s father.

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 5 & Featured Video: Stages 4 (legal) & 5 (production)

FREE AUDIO BOOK! Leave a comment on this week’s featured video and become eligible for winning a free copy of “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Janet will run a raffle using random numbers among the comments. Wow! Two posts up this Monday June 29th…and a podcast this Friday, July 3rd. Week…

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 4 & Featured Video: Stages 2 (editing) & 3 (technical)

Week Four June 22-26 We’re into week four now, with 1/3 of the tour completed. Thanks for those of you following the tour. Go to Eden’s site for this week’s TREASURE HUNT CLUE. Then, contact Janet with the answer to win a FREE copy of our audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry…

Sightlines Blog Tour Week 3 & Featured Video. Stage 1: Recording your audiobook.

Follow the blog tour TREASURE HUNT to receive a free copy of our new audio book “Sightlines: A Family Love Story in Poetry and Music.” Week Three June 15-19 17 Sharman Apt Russell interviews Janet on the themes of love, place, and meaning on her group blog Love of Place celebrating place and a greater…

Sightlines Blog Tour Week Two & Featured Video; Studio Tour & Working Process

Week Two June 8-12 9 Claire Applewhite interviews Janet on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Book Blog where Claire is a contributing writer. Claire’s most recent and fifth release is The Wrong Side of Memphis, a noir mystery novel. Claire and I are both members of the St. Louis Writers Guild. 11 Kendra Bonnet & Matilda…

Sightlines Blog Tour, Week 1 & Featured Video; Nashville Launch Dinner Send-off

Amazingly, I’m all over the internet this week. The joint’s jumping this week with five internet visits to blogging buddies. In addition to the three stops of my audio book blog tour, check out these other visits. Several readers have asked me to say more about my two African homecoming journeys last year. Here it…

TCM’s Ernest Dempsey review of “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”

Sightlines Janet Grace Riehl iUniverse Inc. ISBN: 0-595-37499-9 Genre(s): Poetry Reviewed by Ernest Dempsey Death sometimes brings about a radical swing in the way the survivors look at life. Janet Grace Riehl, an award-winning author, has written a poetry book Sightlines (iUniverse Inc., Lincoln, 2006) that expresses her feelings about the beauties and frailties of…