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Pre-Conference Reading List

We encourage tyou to read one or more books by authors who will be teaching the workshops you will be attending. If you enjoy their book, please let other know by mentioning it on your blog, social media or bookseller website.

Merritt "Biff" Barnes
Stories To Tell: An Easy Guide to Self Publishing Family History Books and Memoirs by Nancy Barnes

Judy Cox
Happy Birthday, Mrs. Millie!
Pick a Pumpkin, Mrs. Millie!
Mrs. Millie Goes To Philly!
Don’t be Silly, Mrs. Millie!
Haunted House, Haunted Mouse
Snow Day For Mouse
Cinco de Mouse-O! 
One is a Feast For Mouse 
The Case of the Purloined Professor (The Tails of Frederick and Ishbu)
The Mystery of the Burmese Bandicoot (The Tails of Frederick and Ishbu)
Carmen Learns English
My Family Plays Music
Go To Sleep, Groundhog!
The Secret Chicken Society
Nora and the Texas Terror
Puppy Power
That Crazy Eddie and the Science Project of Doom
Resource: How to Write a Children’s Book and Get It Published by Barbara Seuling 

Bruch Holbert
Lonesome Animals 
History of a Happy Family

Elizabeth Lyon
Manuscript Makeover
The Sell Your Novel Toolkit
A Writer's Guide to Fiction
Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write
A Writer's Guide to Nonfiction
National Directory of Editors & Writers

Carolyn Rose
Through a Yellow Wood
Hemlock Lake
An Uncertain Refuge
Sea of Regret
A Place of Forgetting
No Substitute for Murder

Johnny Shaw
Dove Season: A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco
Big Maria

Lauren Sheehan
Rose CIty Ramble (CD)
Two Wings (CD)
Some Old Lonesome Day (CD)

William Sullivan
The Case of D.B. Cooper's Parachute
Listening for Coyote
Cabin Fever
Hiking Oregon's History
Oregon's Greatest Natural Disasters
The Ship in the Hill,
The Case of Einstein's Violin
A Deeper Wild
The Atlas of Oregon Wilderness
Oregon Trips & Trails
Oregon Favorites
Oregon "100 Hikes" series (five guidebooks) 

Bob Welch
Pebble in the Water: A nurse. A journalist's book. A lesson in how we matter more than we know
Cascade Summer: My Adventure on Oregon's Pacific Crest Trail
52 Little Lessons from It's a Wonderful Life
Resolve: From the Jungles of Bataan, the Epic Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Promise Kept
American Nightingale
My Oregon II
General Inspiration:
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
The Story Factor by Annette Simmons
Writing Life, The by Annie Dillard

 


 


 



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