Jack Cavanaugh's Books

From My Library, April 29, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

Kingdom Wars: A Hideous Beauty, Jack Cavanaugh, 2007. 

 

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From My Library 04-29-11

 

If you’re not having fun while writing a novel, you’re doing something wrong. Jack reads from two scenes he had fun writing.

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Two scenes: When Grant Austin returns to his old high school, he is surprised when all his adolescent insecurities come flooding back. Later, in a hotel room, Grant is spooked by a strange coincidence of television programming.

 

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From My Library, April 27, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

“Let’s Hear It For Rhetoric”, Wen Smith, 1996. 

 

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From My Library 04-27-11

 

John F. Kennedy said of Winston Churchill: “In the dark days and darker nights when Britain stood alone . . . he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. The incandescent quality of his words illuminated the courage of his countrymen.” — The Power of Eloquence, Montalbo, 18.

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

A challenge to speakers and writers to polish their writing until it sings.

 

Join me again for another From My Library episode, Friday, April 29!

 

From My Library, April 25, 2011

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Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING  

The Stand, Stephen King, 1978. 

 

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From My Library 04-25-11

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You’re not reading his books, you’re living them. It’s a good writer who can make you feel he’s sharing his experiences with you, but it’s a genius who can make you feel that you are sharing your life with him . . . . You feel so comfortable in Steve’s world that you feel as if the author has become the person who is listening. Somewhere along the line, you begin to feel you’re the tale. — Reviewer

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

These opening paragraphs from King’s epic post-apocalyptic tale is a great example of verisimilitude, an essential tool for every novelist.

 

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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Wednesday, April 27!

 

From My Library, April 20, 2011

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Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING  

The Red Fairy Book, Andrew Lang, ed, 1890. 

 

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From My Library 04-20-11

 

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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” — C. S. Lewis

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

“The Twelve Dancing Princesses” — Once upon a time there lived in the village, a little cow boy . . . .

 

Interested in reading more? Add Red Fairy Book to your library! 
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Click here to download a free Kindle version. 

Click here to read all of the Andrew Lang Fairy Books online for free  

Join me again for another From My Library episode, Monday, April 25!

 

From My Library, April 18, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

Postmarked Heaven, Jack Cavanaugh, 2002. 

 
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From My Library 04-18-11

 

 

Behold now the kingdom, see with new eyes! — John Michael Talbot, Terry Talbot

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

A deceased Hollywood screenwriter describes the out-of-placeness he felt while living on earth. He didn’t know it at the time, but he was longing for a heavenly home.

 

Interested in reading more? Add Postmarked Heaven to your library! 
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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Wednesday, April 20!

 

From My Library, April 13, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

Kingdom Wars: A Hideous Beauty, Jack Cavanaugh, 2007. 

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 From My Library 04-13-11

 

“Let us suppose that this everyday world were, at some point, invaded by the marvelous. Let us, in fact, suppose a violation of frontier. . . .” — C. S. Lewis

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

After winning the Pulitzer Prize, Grant Austin returns to his old high school to give a speech and gloat over his success to his old high school nemesis, now a teacher there. Only Grant discovers his nemesis isn’t who he thought he was . . . he isn’t even human.

 

Interested in reading more? Add Kingdom Wars: A Hideous Beauty to your library! 
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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Monday, April 18!

 

From My Library, April 11, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

Winds of War, Herman Wouk, 1971. 

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From My Library 04-11-11
 

 

Herman Wouk earned his living as a scriptwriter for Fred Allen before serving in World War II. His career as a novelist spans nearly six decades and has brought him resounding international acclaim. He lives in Palm Springs, California.

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

A romantic scene from a sweeping epic of World War II.

 

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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Wednesday, April 13!

 

From My Library, April 8, 2011

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Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

Space, James Michener, 1982. 

 

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TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

When questioned about the need to inquire about intimate matters, a researcher explains her approach to writing and creating characters.

 

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Interested in writing novels?

Visit my Word Forge studio blog at www.jcwordforge.com

Consider attending a writer’s conference. I recommend: www.brmcwc.com

Purchase a couple of writing books from my friend, James Scott Bell (click on title) — 

The Art of War for Writers

Plot & Structure

Revision & Self-editing

Writing Fiction for All You’re Worth  (Kindle book)

Join me again for another From My Library episode, Monday, April 11!

 

From My Library, April 6, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING 

The Allies, Jack Cavanaugh, 1997. 
 

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From My Library 04-06-11

The rigid airship, employed so extensively by Germany during the Great War, was perfected soon after the turn of the century by a former Wurttenberg army cavalry officer, Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin, who had been inspired by a balloon ascent he had made in the United States on August 19, 1863.

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Katy Morgan, an American nurse in training, experiences war first hand when a pair of German Zeppelins drop incendiary bombs on London.

 

Interested in reading more? Add The Allies to your library! 
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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Friday, April 8!

 

From My Library, April 4, 2011

Jack reads selected passages 
from his favorite books

Unscripted. Unrehearsed. Unedited. 

TODAY'S READING  

Unpublished Account of the
Great Zeppelin Raid of 1916, Tom Morgan, 1996.  

 

CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO: From My Library 04-04-11

 

This article was begun January 31, 1996, at just before 9:00 p.m. At around that time and on that date eighty years before, two German airships were flying South over Shropshire, and although they didn’t know it, they would soon bomb my town, and almost kill my great grandfather, my grandmother and her sister. — Tom Morgan

 

TODAY IN FROM MY LIBRARY:

Florence Hill and her sister, Ellen, flee a theater performance when a German Zeppelin drops incendiary bombs on the town of Wednesbury, England.

 

Interested in reading more? Read the complete account. 
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Join me again for another From My Library episode, Wednesday, April 6!