This week Grenier has invited Romance Author and Writing Blind Blogger Traci McDonald to join her as co-host, along with some amazing authors who are not only talented but also blind. McDonald, a blind author herself has been an inspriation to many, including host Virginia S Grenier. Learn more about Traci McDonald and Writing Blind on her blog!
One of their guests today is Abbie Johnson Taylor, president of Behind Our Eyes and author of a romance novel, "We Shall Overcome" and a poetry collection, "How to Build a Better Mousetrap: Recollections and Reflections of a Family Caregiver." Her work has appeared in Serendipity Poets Journal, Emerging Voices, and Magnets and Ladders. Her Poetry chapbook, "That’s Life: New and Selected Poems" will be published by Finishing Line Press. Please visit her Website at http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com.
Other guest authors include Bruce Atchison, Deon Lyons and Donna Grahmann.
Bruce Atchison is a legally-blind Canadian freelance writer with articles published in a variety of magazines. He has also authored three paperbacks. "When a Man Loves a Rabbit: Learning and Living with Bunnies" is a memoir of the surprising facts he discovered about house rabbits. "Deliverance from Jericho: Six Years in a Blind School" is his recollection of being sent five hundred miles from home for months at a stretch. "How I was Razed: A Journey from Cultism to Christianity" shows how God led Atchison out of a legalistic house church. Follow him on Facebook or Twitter. He also posts regularly on www.bruceatchison.blogspot.com
Native
Texans and long time Magnolia residents, Donna Grahmann and her
husband, David, share their acreage with a small ark of assorted, four
legged critters. Even after Donna’s eye sight began to fail, she
continued to be competitive on her bay Quarter Horse, Rebel, as well as
in sheepdog trials with her Border Collies, Scotti and Clyde.
Numerous
competitions have lead them to winning the Texas State Championship in
pole bending, to a Top Ten placement in stake race at the Quarter Horse
World Finals, and then, onto their Top Ten finish in barrels at the
Quarter Horse Congress, which boosted the entire Texas team to a sixth
place finish. Donna, teamed with each of her dogs, also placed second in
the Texas Sheepdog Finals. Never less than an arm’s reach away, her
faithful guide dog, Huey, has guided Donna through the crowds of
spectators, as she cheers on David and his dogs at sheepdog trials.
2010
introduced her to the national writing group, Behind Our Eyes Inc, in
which Donna has served as Secretary since 2012. Her poems and short
stories have appeared in their online magazine,
Magnets
and Ladders, as well as in the publication of the 2013 anthology,
Behind Our Eyes: A Second Look. Her short story, Dependable Pal, which
was included in the 2013 anthology, was also selected as a Top Ten
finalist in the Pen 2 Paper writing competition.
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