Monthly Archives: August 2025

Yeovil Literary Prize Longlist

Posted on August 22, 2025 by PB Rippey

UPDATE: I did not make the shortlist. Again, so grateful for MONSTER recognition! I’m allowed to announce now that my historical fiction middle-grade novel, THE MONSTER AT ELIZABETH LAKE, longlisted for the 2025 Yeovil Literary Prize. I’ll know in September … Continue reading →

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At Least Dust Them

Posted on August 18, 2025 by PB Rippey

Books on my desk that I squint at regularly as I world-build, revise, calculate financial bits, worry, shed a tear, laugh at something I’ve created (hopefully not unkindly), revise ad nauseum–yet books I never see. Seeing, replacing a few titles. … Continue reading →

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O California! (mini-summer-break edition)

Posted on August 11, 2025 by PB Rippey

I live in a state people visit from around the world. California is vast and geologically diverse end to end: deserts, mountains, marshes, volcanoes, ocean–we have it all. Many of our family vacations are CA vacations–there’s just SO MUCH to … Continue reading →

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