"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.