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Winter writings

Jan 20, 2025 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
While navigating the last few months, The Laurels have continued to write despite troubles, losses and the state of the world. We hope our words help show how we are all connected and you find some that reonate with you here. 

Please keep writing! Your words are a balm as well, for yourself and everyone you choose to share them with.

Into the new year with a new book!

Jan 20, 2025 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook

Hello All, I hope this finds you looking forward to this new year instead of looking back. Much like everyone, I imagine, I've been having ups and downs but I'm hopeful we'll emerge into a better place. I've been working on the sequel to Omie's Well, called The Deer Stone. I'm nearly through the first draft and my dear husband and editor Gary has been editing the beginning chapters. 
 

Writing and Marketing-both sides of the brain!

Oct 23, 2024 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
The challenge is being able to switch back and forth! 

Validation

Aug 24, 2024 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
   Writing truly its own reward, getting to be in the flow of creativity. The joy is in letting the work unfold as it will, with a hand on the rudder, following the current, trusting the wind. Have I been saturated with the Pacific Ocean life? Not nearly enough!
   There is a joy as well in knowing that whatever art you're giving to the world is appreciated and meaningful to other people. 
   I've been nominated by the Pacific Northwest Writers Association for the Nancy Pearl Award for Best Published Fiction of 2024. The other two finalists are fine writers, Alle C. Hall and Irma Fritz, and I'm honored to be in their company. 
  
   

Animate Your Ancestors

Jun 25, 2024 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
The importance of capturing family stories, even in a fictional manner.

Share Your stories

Feb 20, 2024 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
It's been awhile, my dears.

Chalice of the New Year

Jan 05, 2024 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
What will we fill it with?

Even Insects

Dec 04, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
Even insects can be a prompt for writing! Everything in life is more interesting when put under the scrutiny of the writer's eye.

Where does it come from?

Dec 04, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
What makes us the recipients of these gifts?

Beyond the story

Nov 08, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
Diving into the past has been so interesting. I feel as if I've lived many lifetimes in rural settings before the 1900's. I've done my best to live with a nod in that direction-when I was young, trying to 'live off the land,' as many of us hippies did. Also, living in my 1830's cabin in Tennessee for 30 years, I spent a good deal of the time by myself, comfortable with solitude and self-reliance. So, it's been easy to immerse myself in Omie's world. I hope you will feel at home there too.

Writing stories

Nov 08, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
Writing does not have to be about ourselves.

Write now~

Nov 01, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook
Do not be daunted!

Grandaddy's Legacy

Nov 01, 2023 by Rebecca Teresa Holbrook

What if, in all our ancestral research for a sense of who we are, we discover that we are not even who we thought?