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Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Feedsack Dress Becomes an E-Book

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 15, 2011 by CarolynJanuary 28, 2013

Paper or plastic? Now you can read The Feedsack Dress on either.

Cave Hollow Press issued the e-book edition of the middle grade/young adult historical novel in early 2011. Priced at $2.99, the new edition is one of online bookseller Barnes and Noble’s Nook Book offerings. Buyers can download it onto the Nook and various other e-readers, including iPad tablets, computers, and Android smartphones. You can get it here.

The paper edition ($7.95 plus shipping and handling) remains available from www.cavehollowpress.com and from Amazon.

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Carolyn Moderates Malice Domestic Panel

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 15, 2011 by CarolynJanuary 28, 2013

For the third year in a row, Carolyn served as a moderator at Malice Domestic, a national convention for mystery readers and writers. The conference met April 29-May 1, 2011, in Bethesda, Maryland (http://www.malicedomestic.org/).

The panel’s topic was Indiana Jones Who? Adventure Mysteries. Four writers, Aileen Baron, Robin Hathaway, Maria Hudgins, and Sarah Wisseman, served on the panel.

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The Feedsack Dress Named Missouri’s Great Read

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 15, 2011 by CarolynJanuary 28, 2013

The Missouri Center for the Book selected The Feedsack Dress, a middle grade novel by Carolyn Mulford, as the state’s Great Read at the ninth annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., September 26, 2009.

The Center for the Book, Library of Congress, distributed 10,000 national maps that young readers could take to the booths in the Pavilion of the States to receive stickers or stamps. On the back of the map,  The Feedsack Dress was listed as one of “52 Great Reads About Great Places.”

The Missouri State Teachers Association selected the book as part of the state’s Reading Circle Program for grades five to eight in 2008.

Midwest Book Review called the book “a charming, original, and deftly written novel by an author who has a readily discernible talent for storytelling and an impressive ability to make her readers care about her characters.”

Set in 1949, the novel focuses on the difficulties that 13-year-old Gail faces when she graduates from a one-room school and enters the ninth grade in town. She’s the only girl wearing a feedsack dress the first day of school, and this makes her a natural target for the mean queen. Every time Gail wears the feedsack dress, something awful happens. Her refusal to buckle and her defense of the mean queen’s other targets earn Gail an unwanted honor, leader of a revolt against the ruling clique.

Carolyn drew on experiences growing up on a farm near Kirksville, Missouri, in writing the book.

Carolyn has spent much of her career as a nonfiction writer and editor in the Washington, D.C. area. She now lives in Columbia, Missouri, and divides her time between writing fiction and nonfiction.

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Interviews

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 15, 2011 by CarolynJanuary 28, 2013

Carolyn on Penquin Tracks
Jill Sheets interviews Carolyn on KOPN FM, 89.5, on the July 29, 2011, show (http://www.kopn.org/archive).

Carolyn on Book Bites for Kids
Suzanne Lieurance interviews Carolyn on Book Bites for Kids, a blog radio site (http://tinyurl.com/28u7p8x).

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Summer Before Air Conditioning

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 19, 2019 by CarolynJuly 19, 2019

Air conditioning keeps me comfortable during the current heat wave, but I remember how we tried to cool off when nothing but the movie theater was air conditioned. July and August approximated hell when I was a kid. No day was so hot that we wouldn’t work in the fields and the garden. Only the persistent breeze made the heat and humidity bearable. The steamy days heated the house, making it equally miserable. When we got electricity, fans helped a little. During the day the coolest place to be was in the shade of a big elm. (Sadly Dutch elm … Continue reading →

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Mixing Memories and Research

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 16, 2019 by CarolynJuly 18, 2019

When I started writing The Feedsack Dress, my own memories of farm life and the ninth grade guided the plot, but I needed facts about life in 1949. I looked for them in the same places I would have if I were writing an article. At the library I wore out my eyes scrolling through microfilm copies of the Kirksville Daily Express and two great photo magazines, Life and Look. These answered such questions as the styles of dresses or skirts and blouses a fashionable ninth grader wore to school and how much they cost. Few girls wore jeans or … Continue reading →

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About The Feedsack Dress Blog

Carolyn Mulford Posted on July 16, 2019 by CarolynJuly 18, 2019

When The Feedsack Dress came out in 2007, I started a blog on Typepad that focused on life during the late 1940s and early 1950s. I stopped posting there in 2012, but you can still link to The Feedsack Kids. I’m posting some new blogs and my favorite old ones here. … Continue reading →

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Giveaway of New Show Me the Ashes Edition

Carolyn Mulford Posted on April 30, 2019 by CarolynApril 30, 2019

On May 7, Harlequin’s Worldwide Mystery will release a paperback edition of Show Me the Ashes, the fourth in my series featuring former CIA operative Phoenix Smith solving murders in rural Missouri. In this one Phoenix and friends, including Achilles, her Belgian Malinois, take on a cold case involving a coerced plea deal (far too common), a string of disturbing burglaries, and crippling bigotr The WM editors insisted on one editorial change from the original Five Star hardback and e-book editions: “Tramp” replaced “slut.” The covers of the paperback and hardback editions look nothing alike, which is also true of the covers … Continue reading →

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Preparing for NaNoWriMo

Carolyn Mulford Posted on October 22, 2018 by CarolynOctober 22, 2018

National Novel Writing Month, November, helps writers resist endless rewriting by supporting them in a mad rush to write 50,000 words, more than half the length of most novels. The majority of participants around the world fall short of the word count, but producing even a few thousand words may help a writer develop the habit of writing. Last week I gave a NaNoWriMo group some tips on getting off to a fast start on November 1. One of the best ways I know to write fast is to pre-write, to think about what you’re going to write before you face the … Continue reading →

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