FP Newsletter July 9 - 17, 2015: Ballad is Back and Marita Will Peform Lindbergh

I am slipping gingerly back into virtual worlds activities after several weeks when The SL Decades Festival ate my time and a week of hospitalization (Unrelated. I think.).  Tomorrow will bring my first reading from Escape From Pig Hill in three weeks, so we have some catching up to do.  Monday, I'll be hosting Marita Decosta, as she begins a four-week stint on Book Island.  Marita will be reading  Anne Morrow Lindberg's A Gift From The Sea.  And Saturday, I'll be back at Circe's in SL for the first time in a year or more.  I'll be sharing some new poems and one of the first stories I published, Ermengarde The Expansive.  If you are unfamiliar with Ermengarde, now is the time to make her acquaintance.  She is the princess Disney should have created decades ago and still hasn't. 
 
Friday, July 10, 10 AM PST
Freda In Progress, Book Island, SL
Escape From Pig Hill
 
It's Christmas on Pig Hill.  Margaret is dealing with what her father did to her and taking refuge with the Grangers on Pig Hill.  Donny is determined to keep Mags safe in a time and place where safety in one's home cannot be assumed.  Kathleen Granger revels in her final holiday.  You can read previously shared chapters of Escape From Pig Hill HERE. 
 
 
Saturday, July 11, 6 PM PST
Freda Frostbite at Circe's, SL
Ermengarde The Expansive and Poems From The Five Day Poetry Challenge
 
Join us as Freda performs her story about a fat princess who grows into her greatness and catches a star and slays a dragon in the process.  Freda will also share five new poems written for the five-day poetry challenge. 
 
 
Monday, July 13, 10 AM PST
Live Lit With Marita DeCosta, Book Island, SL
A Gift From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
 
Meditations on life, love, marriage, solitude, peace and contentment.  Written while on holiday by the sea. 
 
 
 
 

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