tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61292671083297297032024-03-05T02:12:13.451-08:00Sandra Leigh-VaughanAuthor, Two Thousand MinnowsSandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-44836100970256365552015-01-09T16:47:00.001-08:002015-01-09T16:50:11.394-08:00When Readers Comment...Priceless!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Two-Thousand-Minnows-Separation-Forgiveness/dp/1626360979/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420850596&sr=1-1&keywords=two+thousand+minnows"><span id="goog_388383732"></span><span id="goog_388383733"></span>http://www.amazon.com/Two-Thousand-Minnows-Separation-Forgiveness/dp/1626360979/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420850596&sr=1-1&keywords=two+thousand+minnows</a><br />
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I can not emphasize enough how important it is to have an editor by your side, whether you are just starting out or a seasoned writer, your editor is your best tool for successful story telling. To all the wonderful editors I have had the pleasure of working with over the years, a huge thank you to Natalie Bates, Michael Ray Brown, Lilly, Val Hudson and Mom...Editors you rock! </div>
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<a href="http://www.sandravaughan.com/">www.sandravaughan.com</a>Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-69899448473601401942014-11-13T09:35:00.000-08:002014-11-13T09:35:08.601-08:00Writer's TruthToday is all about writing the next book! Very happy to have the time and space to tap into the wild side of my imagination. I could live here for hours...truly my happy place.<br />
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There's that day when all that I have been noddling and noting over the months comes into perfect alignment and you just know, it's go time. I am in that flow of go! It's hard to describe this place exactly, but I will try.<br />
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As a writer, I never stop writing, I am constantly in conversation, places and spaces, observing the unusual and book marking it in my mind. Examining the essence of conversations, the layers of relationships, the truth behind the many masks.<br />
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While the next book is cooking and simmering in my subconscious I stir it occasionally waiting for it, the story, to tell me when it's done and time to create. There is a feeling to this magic, this place where my characters and plot lines become alive and ready to tell me the story. When I hit that place I just know it's go time, I can feel it churning in my soul.<br />
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A very real and exciting place where I buckle up, become consumed and nothing can interrupt the journey. Unlike, the cooking or simmering stage where everything interrupts and I feel so guilty that I have not been writing. But like all things, timing is of the utter most importance. And knowing that simmering is a part of the process allows me to connect with my writer's truth. I am always writing, even when I am not.<br />
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Happy Thursday!<br />
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<br />Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-65282457389506521832014-11-12T12:40:00.001-08:002014-11-12T12:40:10.783-08:00Two Thousand Minnows Audio Book hits Amazon!<br />
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<br />Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-49130772577825770882014-11-09T10:19:00.002-08:002014-11-09T10:19:36.874-08:00The Writing Love Affair.<br />
The the world of writing is one that is comprised of love and disappointment until it's not. The way I see it there are three types of writers, the learners, the gifted, and doers. Doing it is half the battle. Thinking about writing and not doing it, can simple become a journey of codependency. <br />
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I have been in all three categories and I am sure you will find that all successful writers have lived in all of the above mentioned worlds.<br />
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Learners, it's where we all start, it's when you take your secret pages to editor and find out if there is a shot in hell you can tell a compelling story.<br />
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Gifted, is the hard fact, every writer must uncover his or her gift. Great writers, like any great singer, actor, or artist has a fundamental gift in the core of their soul. It's the only thing that quenches their thirst in life, its place they lose time and forget about the world around them.<br />
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Doers, that is the crazy-maker place where you hide from the truth, making a thousand excuses why you can't write, until not writing drives you crazy.<br />
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<br />Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-80317041214758379612014-10-08T21:29:00.001-07:002014-10-08T21:29:50.742-07:00<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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October 7th Skyhorse pubs Paperback, Audio Book and Kindle</h3>
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grew up in a poor, unstable, peripatetic family that traveled back and forth
between California and West Virginia while pursuing one failed enterprise after
another, trying to hold together through the father's drinking and occasional
violence. She captures the fear of children who live with physical abuse, the
strategies for keeping peace, and the plotting of escape routes once a fight
breaks out. In this searing memoir, Leigh recalls that when she was eight years
old, her pregnant mother left to give birth to a fourth child but returned
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the conviction that her sister is actually alive. The family separated for a
while--each of the children farmed out to relatives--and later reunited, but a
breach continued, as though something was missing. As she comes of age, Leigh
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three-quarters into this labored memoir of a difficult childhood, a preteen
Leigh looks around the rundown cinderblock house she, her parents and two
younger siblings are about to rent. It's the latest in a series of way stations
on her dysfunctional family's fruitless cross-country forays between California
and West Virginia. "I want to close my eyes until I turn eighteen,"
she writes. It's no wonder. In her first book, television producer Leigh, the
oldest child of an adored mother and violent, alcoholic father, chronicles the
years of abuse, near poverty and shameful secrets that fueled her longing to
escape. In an early scene, Sandra's father terrorizes her mother until she
flees from the house into a cold night without coat or shoes. A few months
later, Sandra's mother goes to the hospital to have her fourth child, but
returns alone; the baby died, her mother reports, "And I don't ever want to
talk about it again." As Leigh and her family continue to search for
better luck and a stable life during the late 1960s and early '70s, Sandra
focuses on the missing child, and, believing she has another sibling, pursues
the question until-as an adult-she makes contact with her sister. Like many
stories of survival, Leigh's includes some powerful moments, and she is a
sympathetic narrator. Though this long volume lacks the depth and insight of
others in the genre (Angela's Ashes and The Liar's Club come to mind), it's
likely to offer welcome comfort to readers who endured childhood traumas
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www.sandravaughan.comSandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-30081613341567492272013-04-17T23:34:00.001-07:002013-04-17T23:34:43.724-07:00Global Rad Update: Mutations, Mexico, & Nuclear Mutiny<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Bummer, but we have to make some noise so THEY will start behaving... i.e. Monsanto and GMO...Watch and Inform</span>Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-10473772427007546922013-04-12T09:49:00.003-07:002013-05-06T13:52:26.624-07:00It's Official - Two Thousand Minnows is back this Fall of 2013!!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">Okay, so it's a official, <a href="http://www.twothousandminnows.com/">"Two Thousand Minnows"</a> is being published again this fall, 2013! How cool it that? Very, excited over here. Paperback and Ebook and Audio book this time around. Yeah! Keep you posted. </span><br />
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www.sandravaughan.comSandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-70277805226471904472009-04-20T20:56:00.000-07:002013-05-06T13:46:16.230-07:00That Magical Land of Skinny<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;">Sandra Vaughan wrote Monster in her Mirror</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;">as a rebuttal to all the dieting and dancing around the real issues she faced trying to get to that magical land of skinny.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;">"The problem was, the more I searched the more I was lost. I sat down and decided to tell the truth, the whole uncomfortable truth of me and my private whacky world filled with contradictions that swirled around me while I set out to resolve the fat-chick madness. With all the supplemental solutions out there like new diets, bigger boobs, plumby lips, and those nose jobs, those solutions never seemed to address that real question. Why do we need to change so badly? It was always the cart before the horse. Deep down inside I knew that dieting, comparing, and competing were all Band Aides, not solutions for the deeper more sinister mindset. Trickster, lurking in the shadows, was always right there seducing me further down the rabbit hole of self-loathing."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px;"><i>No Fat Chicks</i> is the story of Sandra's journey. I had to fight like hell to break its mental hold...And finally learn to be nice to me and let go of the crippling self-sabotage.</span></div>
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<br />Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-24105400766420104282009-01-17T14:18:00.000-08:002009-01-17T14:22:32.128-08:00Done!!!Finally, it's done.<br /><br />He finished the dreaded office remodel.<br /><br />Of course that's not entirely true. He still has the bathroom mirror, kitchen cab. door knobs, and light switch plates to go. So, I'm thinking by summer, but you're not gonna hear a word of bitching from me...oh no.<br /><br />He's out of my office and things are back to lovely! Heck, I might even start sleeping with him again. ( ha-ha)Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129267108329729703.post-47278787060794890912008-10-16T13:43:00.000-07:002008-10-16T16:23:14.923-07:00Bad Boy TricksIn my house Rob, my guy, can't help but go man once in awhile and try to squish me. Like women that can't help accidentally giving their power away, guys just love squishing us. Now Rob is not the enemy, but being the guy that he is, the man-thing shows up. <br /><br />For instance, we're in the middle of a remodel. Fine, a month long project has turned into 3 months and of course I can't say a word. Why, because he'll stall even further on the progress. Hence, I have no voice in my own house and I have to be a good little girl, or else.. Well we all know what that means, he'll quit. Now I'd love to throw some money or more monkeys at the project, hell anything at this point to get the job done. I want my office, peace, and my life back. <br /><br />But noooooo-not Rob for some man-thing reason he enjoys seeing me squirm in discomfort. He likes taking over my office space, using my computer, and generally abusing my patients. And that's where the squishing part comes in. Guys can't help but squish the women they love, it must be in their jeans!<br /><br />I curse the day I said yes to this remodel, falling for his man-trip and squishing me in my own home. "Just finish your office and get out of mine," is what I scream into the pillow, while I pound my fist crying! <br /><br />Just another bad-boy trick...Sandra Leigh Vaughanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14595097395587238067noreply@blogger.com2