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Tag Archives: Buttons
Button Love
Love is in the air and button valentines are floating around all over! Since Valentine’s Day is on Sunday this year, you can spend Saturday getting all creative with your button collections. Here is a small sampling of ideas to get you … Continue reading
Two Year Bookiversary!
This month marks the two year anniversary of my book’s release by PageSpring Publishing in Ohio. PageSpring is a new, small press and The Button Collector was one of their first few titles, so I have to admit that I had … Continue reading
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Tagged amazon, book reviews, Buttons, first book, goodreads, kindle, novel, publication, publishing, reading, Short Story, small press
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Introducing The Literary Button, my new Etsy shop
I’m happy to introduce my Etsy shop, The Literary Button! Here you may find vintage button bookmarks featuring text and calligraphy. Each bookmark is bundled with a signed copy of The Button Collector and can be customized for holiday giving. … Continue reading
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Tagged bookmark, Buttons, calligraphy, Christmas, gift, holiday, paper art, paper craft, vintage buttons
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MY LITTLE BOOK BLOG offers a fresh perspective
Anyone who’s ventured into the big wide world of the blogosphere has probably stumbled upon tons of book review blogs. As an author, the problem I’ve found is that most of them are either awful or they have a very narrow point of view–they only … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, Buttons, genre, literary fiction, mylittlebookblog, reviewers, Short Story
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Button People Profiles: Meet the Button Floozies
To me, buttons are primarily a literary device, but to others they are much more. I’ve been fascinated to learn the history behind these little artifacts and see the incredible things people have made with them. That’s why, from time to time, I … Continue reading
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Tagged button floozies, Buttons, etymology, housewife, hussif, hussy, Mother's Day
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Button Flash Ten: LENT, 1930
My tenth Button Flash evolved in an interesting way. The reader who sent it in told me that it is a brass button from a Reichs railroad uniform right before Nazi Germany. I’ve been holding it a while, waiting for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930, ash wednesday, Buttons, germany, lent, nazi, railroad, reich, reichs railroad, t.s. eliot
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Black Friday
My eighth Button Flash is for all the contrarians out there on Black Friday. Here’s 250 words written in one hour, all about a reader’s button. Thanks, Marilyn B! Black Friday In most ways, Mary was an ordinary person. She … Continue reading
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Tagged black friday, Buttons, Flash Fiction, shopping, Short Story, thrift shop
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