Giveaway Winners of The Last Days of Freedom Giveaway Hop

A big thanks goes out to all who stopped my blog to enter the giveaway. The hop is officially over. There were a great deal of responses, and I enjoyed meeting you all.  I have tabulated the responses, and all the winners are listed below!

Congratulations!

NEXT GIVEAWAY:

Sherry Ellis, Author

Please join Author Sherry Ellis, on August 26th, as guest author on my blog. She is giving away one of her paperback books and also an ebook, come back on the 26th as you must comment for a chance to win.

 

See you on the 26th of August!

 

That Mama is a Grouch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many of you know for the past two years I have been working on a new children’s book, The Christmas Secret, and I finished my second round of edits this month and received my manuscript back from my editor. She said it was “Much improved and a delightful children’s Christmas story,” and I’m excited to announce a late fall release for this book. With that said…watch for “The Christmas Secret” Book Giveaway coming before Christmas….

See you then!

-Virginia

 

Book Giveaways & Blog Tours

Giveaway Prize

 

 

Grand Prize Winner: Stephanie Hungerford

Congratulations Stephanie!

Contact: info [at] virginiawright [dot] com

Please include your full name and postal mailing address.

 

Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do eBook Winners:

1.) Beth G.

2.) Christina Kit.

3.) Sarah Slehan

4.) Christy Maurer

5.) Jess Haight

6.) Gaby Paniagua

7.) BookAttic

8.) Sherry S Strode

9.) Micheal Dale Grim

10.) Sue Sattler

Can an author break away from a genre?

Virginia Wright AuthorI’ve thought for many years of writing a romantic novel. Some say when you get branded for one genre that it is hard to break away from that stigma. Two years ago I joined Romance Writers of America, and it has taken me two years to write one chapter of a romantic novel, but I’m giving it a whirl, and putting one foot ahead of the other. I just bought a romantic mystery on Kindle “An Unlikely Arrangement” by Patty Wiseman. Congrats Patty on your newest release! Maybe one day I will get mine finished–until then, I’m working on my next children’s book “The Christmas Secret” and I love how it is beginning to unfold…

I illustrate my own books, The Princess and the Castle, The Prince and the Dragon, Crying Bear and my book “Buzzzzzzzz What Honeybees Do” as well as take photographs for those I feel photographs would be better served. Writing is something I have done my whole life…dreamed of being a writer when I was just a little girl (Virginia Brown) writing in my journal on the veranda in Belfast, Maine. Not every book is a winner, but for me it is a personal journey, and so very awesome to think that people buy my books and read my words and may learn something from what I have written, such as in my non-fiction, Buzzzzzzzz. Or that a small child learned a lesson in Crying Bear, or that a little one might fall asleep dreaming they are a princess after being read The Princess and the Castle…

For me, as an author, and writer…nothing could be any cooler than to hear someone liked something I wrote. I’m hoping, and believe, that if you write for your readers, that your believers and faithful followers will check out your new genre.  It doesn’t mean that they will like what you are writing but they will probably understand and respect your growth as a writer…

Written by: Virginia Wright