In the book, How to Write & Sell Your First Novel, Oscar Collier points out, "The editor, usually a person who has chosen the profession out of a love of reading, is first and foremost a reader, a consumer of books. For a novelist to have a successful dialogue, the necessary give-and-take, with his editor, the novelist must first regard the editor as a reader or fan and ignore the notion of the editor's power over the writer's business success. The relationship, to be successful, must be one between equals. Editors must find, and get along with, many types of authors. And unless you, the author, are interested in self-publishing -- a rough road for a first novelist -- you must work with an editor at a publishing house. Just remember the equation has two sides, separated by an equals sign, and you'll find it easier."

*Writer's Digest Books, F& W Publications Inc.

Lilly & Rebecca ~ Carving the Jack-O-Lanterns

"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
~ Enrique Jardiel Poncela

"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."
~ Jesse Stuart (1907 - 1984) American Writer

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
~ T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) Nobel Prize in Literature, 1948

Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, 2006, Reader's Digest

Harold Robertson proudly shows us his latest stained-glass piece before he packages and ships it to a client. Laid off from a corporation during a down-turn, Harold took up an art which provides enjoyment and satisfaction. Meticulouly constructed, each piece of glass is chosen for its effect in the completed work. Colour, texture, variation, degree of clarity or opaqueness are considered.
For a glimpse into PICTURES IN GLASS visit http://www.haroldrobertson.blogspot.com/ The Neat Little Bookshop is pleased to display one of the artist's pieces available for purchase in our bookshop window.

". . . I'm going to imagine that I'm the wind that is blowing up there in those tree-tops. When I get tired of the trees I'll imagine I'm gently waving down here in the ferns ~ and then I'll fly over to Mrs. Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing ~ and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field ~ and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves. Oh, there's so much scope for imagination in a wind!"

Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. L. M. Montgomery, 1908

"Every day is a new beginning,
Every morn' is the world born new."
~ L. M . Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 1908
L . C. Page & Company Inc.

What drives entrepreneur Richard Branson?

". . . being in a position to change things, to keep learning and to be in a position to make a difference. Throughout my life I've been trying to get into that position, and now I'm in that position. I don't waste a minute of it. But I also have an attitude in life that however hard I'm working and however tired I am, you know, to make sure I just enjoy every single second of my life, and, you know, if you just make sure you enjoy every person you're with and every second of your life, the pleasure you're going to get out of life ~ and the pleasure you're going to give other people ~ is enormous."

~ The Optimist, One Man's Search For The Brighter Side of Life, p. 185, Lawrence Shorter, 2009 Doubleday Canada