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About Virginia Wright

VIRGINIA WRIGHT (born Virginia Brown) is an American multi-genre best-selling author, award-winning illustrator, and nature photographer born and raised in Maine. As an artist, the cover Wright designed for Steampunk Alice by Dennis Higgins won the AUTHORSdb Gold Award (2014). She won the AUTHORSdb Silver Award (2016) from Timothy the Christmas Mouse Coloring Book. Crying Bear ranked #1 Amazon Best Seller in Children's Bear Books (2016). Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do, ranked #1 Amazon Best Seller in three categories (2016). Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do is the AUTHORSdb Cover Contest Bronze Award winner (2018), in the Education category. Ayuh, Another Downeast Cookbook ranked #2 Hot New Release Best-Selling in New England Cooking, Food & Wine (2018). As a multi-genre writer, Virginia's WIP is currently a romance novella. Besides writing, in her pastime, when she isn't spending time with her husband, Virginia is a foodie and restaurant reviewer. She enjoys sifting through old recipes and photographing everything she cooks and eats. She is also a nature photographer and a mixed media artist; she gets her ideas for her illustrations through inspiration that she gathers from the nature that surrounds her, which is ever-present in her designs.

Coming soon: MEDICAL ROMANCE NOVEL By Virginia Wright

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Hi Everyone,

I just finished my ROMANCE NOVEL this week, and I am pleased to announce that my manuscript is in the hands of my editor. I am so excited…Cue the Happy Dance! We are looking at a fall release just in time for Christmas. My book will make a great stocking stuffer! It will also be a great book for a gift-exchange at Christmas. Hint! Hint! Christmas setting maybe?

As a multi-genre author, I have written children’s fantasy fiction, children’s educational non-fiction, medical non-fiction, even a cookbook. I have never written a Romance novel before…until now! I hope you will love it as much as I loved writing it.

So, you might be wondering what kind of romance novel I have written- from the title of this blog post, you guessed it, a Medical romance, which is a sub-genre of Contemporary romance. The story is set in Maine and a short scene in Boston, and surrounding the Christmas holiday. See why I said it would be a great stocking stuffer or for a gift exchange at work?

A cover reveal will be in the near future.

Stay tuned…

Thanks for following my blog posts,
–Virginia Wright Xx

May Day | Make a May Basket

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It is May Day 5/1/2020. Did you ever hang a May Basket as a kid? I grew up in New England, and I did. You would hang it on the door handle of a potential sweetheart or set it on the neighbor’s door stoop. Then ring the doorbell and run away.

If you got caught before getting away, you had to kiss them. And of course, if you had your eye on someone you wanted to kiss, you would let them catch you. TeeHee.

@Dennis Higgins, couldn’t you take us back to the good ole days? You write time-travel books. :-)

I am including a link that I found online to New England.com, to what my May baskets looked similar to as a kid and instructions on how to make a May Basket. https://newengland.com/today/living/crafts/make-a-may-basket/ This year with social distancing due to COVID-19, it would not be advisable to hang May baskets. But next year, you might want to start a new tradition. MAKE A MAY BASKET!


Happy May Day!
Wishing you all well–Stay safe!
–Virginia Wright

April Showers bring May flowers…

Visit INSTAGRAM for more Virginia Wright photographs.

Practice Your Way to Perfect | Coloring Books

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Coloring Books – Insects & Butterflies

Practice Your Way to Perfect coloring books,  includes five designs to color and five pages of each design. Having numerous pages of the same design gives the colorist lots of chances to color their way along until they get it just right, to perfect! The fifth page of each design embedded inside of a decorated picture frame gives the colorist a framable page. Also included in the book are blank Draw Your Own Pages with art from the coloring book so that the colorist can also draw the illustration item from the coloring pages in the book. Some of the Practice Your Way to Perfect coloring books include bonus pages with the cover art. 

Do you color outside of the lines? Have you ever colored or painted a page and then wished you used a different color or shading?  Practice Your Way to Perfect addresses these issues. 

Find these Practice Your Way to Perfect Coloring Books as well as Birds of Maine Coloring Book, Seashore Coloring Book, Halloween Coloring Book, and Christmas Coloring Book here.

Hugs,
–Virginia Wright

Most Anticipated Romance Novel of 2020…An upcoming Release by Virginia Wright, Maine Author

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So excited to be writing in a new genre. I’m writing chapter 10 of a new romance. I’m unsure of the release date, but it will be in 2020. And definitely in time for stocking stuffers next year…Hmmm. Could that be a hint? (Perhaps the book is surrounding Christmas time? And maybe a Maine setting?) You must follow for updates. :-)

I have never been so excited about writing as I am right now. If you aren’t following me on my Amazon Author Page, you can do so here: http://www.amazon.com/author/virginiawright then you will be notified by email when my new book is released. Xx

You can also follow me on Twitter @virginia_wright or Facebook: virginiabrownwright and my favorite pastime besides writing is photography, follow me on Instagram if nature and food photography is your thing: https://www.instagram.com/wright.virginia/
Until then…

-VXo

Writing a romance novel

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As long as I can remember I have wanted to write a romance novel. When I was a teenager, I would read romance novels all night long. Then I took a trip to the mall and walked past the book store and saw romance bestsellers in the display outside of the store. When I started writing and publishing, I started with children’s books, later went on to write non-fiction. But…my heart always wandered back to romance and for the last several weeks I have been writing a romance novel. I’m on chapter nine. I am so excited and have enjoyed every minute of writing. I would love for you to stay tuned for updates.

Until then…check me out on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/author/virginiawright

Following my heart…

Xx