Ginger Dehlinger, Writer: Ira Glass on Storytelling

Friday, February 6, 2015

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Below is a link to a series of four U-Tube videos on the subject of storytelling as explained by Ira Glass. He's referring to making videos or writing radio scripts, but his advice is good for anyone writing prose.

http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2011/05/13/what-nobody-tells-beginners-ira-glass-on-storytelling/

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The Goose Girl's New Ribbon, a middle-grade chapter book for children

The year is 1934. Ten-year-old Marie lives on a farm where her job is to feed and water a flock of geese. While helping her mother make supper one evening, she finds a shiny silver dime in a goose gizzard. It is the middle of the Great Depression. Her family, like many around the world, has very little money. Finding a dime is like finding a miracle.

Marie spends the dime on a green velvet hair ribbon. All her life she has worn hand-me-downs, so she is excited to have something new to wear to school. But her happiness turns to anger when school lets out and her best friend Sonny runs off with her ribbon.

The next school day, Sonny tells Marie he gave the ribbon back. “That green thing? I left it on your gate post.” She calls him a liar. She doesn’t speak to him, play games with him at recess. Will a missing hair ribbon end their close friendship?

The Goose Girl's New Ribbon is available on Amazon. It can also be ordered at most book stores.

Blurb from Back Cover

Clara, fourteen and Geneva, sixteen are close friends until Geneva secretly marries Clara’s widowed father. Feeling betrayed by her pa and a girl she idolizes, Clara wants nothing to do with her new young stepmother. Geneva retaliates, beginning a clash of wills that lasts from 1884 to the flu epidemic of 1918.

Years go by without them speaking to one another. Geneva, bolder of the two, lives a life of ease in elegant homes with piped water and domestic help. She shops for the latest in women’s fashions and plays pinochle with lady friends.

For spite, Clara marries a handsome cowboy Geneva fancies, but she ends up living in a freezing cold cabin and a house infested with bugs. She takes in ironing and feeds miners to make ends meet, discovering love and purpose in the process. It takes a tragedy to bring her and her family together again. Can she and Geneva see this as an opportunity to put aside the past? Can they salvage a relationship that was once the center of their world?

Where to Purchase Never Done

Never Done as an ebook ($2.99) or soft cover copy ($15.00) is available from Amazon and Goodreads. It can also be ordered at most book stores. The ebook version is also carried by Barnes and Noble.

If you would like a signed copy of Never Done, you can get one from me for $15.00 plus $3.19 postage mailed anywhere in the US.

If ordering from me, please send your check to 20725 Blacksmith Circle Bend OR 97702. You can also use PayPal.

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My cell phone number is 541-771-3213 and my email address is gdehlinger@live.com

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Blurb from Back Cover

Jordan Miller, a penniless Oregon farm girl, manages to work her way through college and veterinary school. Shortly after beginning her career she faces a gut-wrenching decision when her alcoholic father contracts a terminal illness and insists she use her veterinary training to end his life. Fearful of the man, even hating him at times after a lifetime of emotional and physical abuse, Jordan must decide whether to obey her father one last time.

On the brighter side, Brute Heart includes many warm and amusing animal stories in the James Herriot tradition. Alternating between thought-provoking and humorous, Jordan’s story will be enjoyed by animal lovers as well as fans of family dramas and hardship to recovery novels.

Where To Purchase Brute Heart

Soft cover copies of Brute Heart are available at Amazon and Goodreads for $12.00 plus shipping and handling ranging from $4.00-$5.97. If you order a signed copy from me, the price is $12.00 plus $3.19 for postage.

You can also order a print copy at most book stores.

When ordering from me, please send your check to Ginger Dehlinger 20725 Blacksmith Circle Bend OR 97702. You can also use PayPal.

Need more information? My cell phone # is 541-771-3213, and my e-mail address is gdehlinger@live.com.

To order from Amazon paperback $12.00, ebook $2.99, click here

Other places to buy Brute Heart

Hometown Reads
http://hometownreads.com/ (click on Bend, Oregon)

Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search%5Bquery%5D=Brute+Heart&commit=Search&search_type=books

Klamath Falls, OR
The Oregon Gift Store
Klamath County Museum

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Friday, February 6, 2015

Ira Glass on Storytelling

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