News and Creativity

NEWS FLASHES!!

• Staci McLaughlin's All Natural Murder, the second in the Blossom Valley Mysteries, will be available this Tuesday, February 5th.
• Sharan Newman's Death Before Compline, a collection of short stories, is now available from Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Bagwyn Books).
• Last Friday, Hannah Jayne sold Brazilian rights to her upcoming YA thriller Truly, Madly, Deadly. She adds, "My first-ever international sale :) "

Next Up: CREATIVITY

Type "Creativity" into Google search and the yield is 196,000,0000 results in 0.24 seconds! Why, "kittens" yields only 65,100,000 results (and that takes 0.26 seconds, so there). Could it be that creativity is of more interest than kittens in the virtual world?

While you ponder that earth-shaking proposition, here are some quotes on creativity from creative people:

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'You cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." ~Vincent Van Gogh

"You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club." ~Jack London

Creativity takes courage. ~Henri Matisse