Greetings, subscribers. It’s March, and we’re celebrating the first birthday of my book, From the Porch to the Page: A Guidebook for the Writing Life.
To celebrate, I’m offering discounted, signed copies, and FREE shipping from a stash I keep at home! Offer good only for USA customers. Details below.
NOTE: For folks in other countries, you can get Porch and Undertow from The Book Depository, which offers free shipping worldwide. Both books are available at ALL major bookstores. List prices are Porch: $16.95, Undertow $24.95. Both available in ebook.
What’s in From the Porch to the Page?
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- More than thirty essays on the writing life and craft
- Six short-short stories and twenty-five poems that illustrate essay topics
- Nourishing insights from well-known authors and poets
- Recommended books for writing memoir, poetry, fiction, and travel stories
- An article featuring Edge’s fundamentalist cult experience, published before her memoir, Undertow: My Escape from the Fundamentalism and Cult Control of The Way International
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Sample from a story in From the Porch to the Page
“She imagined this Saturday evening with Loretta would offer boundless relief, an evening of camaraderie filled with warm encouragement—the opposite of her day job working for a glad-handing salesman. In three seconds flat, Melanie made it from the porch to the door: Loretta had arrived.”
Endorsements
“Charlene L. Edge writes from the intersection of love, life, and loss, and she does so in the front window, where readers and writers can see how she works her craft. I highly recommend this guidebook for writers.” —Susan Campbell, MS, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Author of Frog Hollow: Stories from an American Neighborhood, and other books.
“This guidebook for writers is an absolute treat—with clean, lovely writing that draws you into vivid stories and meditations on family and on the natural world. Edge, a generous writer, weaves those stories—and illustrative poems—with writing advice that is both practical and reverent. As a writer and a reader, I came away inspired.” —Lyn Millner, MFA, Professor, Founder of Florida Gulf Coast University’s Journalism Program, author of The Allure of Immortality: An American Cult, a Florida Swamp, and a Renegade Prophet
“There’s something for everyone in this mixed-genre guidebook for the writing life: short-short stories, poetry, essays on writing, and memoir. Throughout the book, Charlene Edge draws us into worlds both real and imagined, with the remarkable ability to capture the past in almost photographic detail. The selves in these pages absorb death and loss, contemplate religion in all its trappings, and find beauty and pathos in subjects ranging from the imagined life of earthly objects (an antique iron) to the stars (“rolling jewels in heaven’s palm”). The spine that holds the stories and poems together is the series of short essays about writing that highlight Edge’s creative process and offer useful advice on topics ranging from self-publishing to writing exercises.” —Rachel Newcomb, PhD, Rollins College Professor of Anthropology, author of The Gift; Women of Fez; and Encountering Morocco: Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding.
UNTIL APRIL 26 – Special, limited offer
Only $15.00, as long as supplies last. Order your signed, discounted copy of PORCH, including FREE shipping.
How to get your copies
- Send me a message here.
- In the message, say how many copies you want, and to whom you want me to sign them.
- Then say how you want to pay for them: check, money order, or using Venmo.
- After payment is received, I will mail your copies (FREE shipping) to your address.
You can be sure I will never give away, trade, or sell your mailing address or your email address.
Thanks for reading! Feel free to forward this offer to your family and friends!
Your writer on the wing,
Charlene
