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Sydney Salter’s writing career started with keeping a high school diary, but she now finds it even more exciting—and far less traumatic—to make stuff up. Her novels include My Big Nose And Other Natural Disasters, Jungle Crossing, and Swoon At Your Own Risk. Sydney lives in Utah with her husband and assorted dogs and cats. When not writing, she enjoys reading, cooking, working as a small claims court mediator, and traveling absolutely anywhere.

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Average rating: 3.6 · 1,609 ratings · 253 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Swoon at Your Own Risk 3.56 avg rating — 802 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters 3.57 avg rating — 664 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Time by Jessica Verday (Editor), Cyn Balog, Lauren Bjorkman (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jungle Crossing 3.85 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not-a-Dr. Logan's Divorce Book by Sydney Salter (Goodreads Author), Brie Ishee (Editor), Chelsea Sekanic Eaton (Illustrations) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Big Nose and Other Natural Disasters Paperback – April 6, 2009 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Women Writing The West Conference Takeaways

I joined another writing organization this year: Women Writing The West. Every year they have a short story contest called the Laura as well as a published fiction contest named The Willa (with categories from children's, YA, poetry, nonfiction, contemporary and historical fiction). The focus is on stories told in the west with female protagonists - like the ones Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cat Read more of this blog post »

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Sydney rated a book really liked it The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t): Sane and sage advice to help you navigate all of your most important relationships by Philippa Perry	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I love reading advice columns. This short book is packed full of solid psychological information—with letters sprinkled throughout. I’m excited to pass it along to my daughter!
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Loved the portrayal of publishing, as well as the obsession with social media. Great self-delusional main character. Fast and fun read.
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Sydney rated a book it was amazing Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I loved the voice in this story! And I enjoyed the way it broke a lot of writing conventions in ways that worked. Very fun read! Can’t wait to watch the adaptation to TV.
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“I'm crying for the little girl whose mother divorced her father, the girl who wanted to fall in love for the first time but wasn't ready for sex, the girl who dated a boy just because he wasn't the first one, the girl who fell hard for the guy with the easy smile and the green eyes, the girl who needed to prove she could hook up on a class trip, the girl who rand for student council just to impress a guy, the girl who lost her best friend, the girl whose father doesn't care anymore, the girl who doesn't have the money for college, the girl who just wants her grandma to fix everything, the girl who doesn't talk to anyone about anything, the girl who just can't fall in love again - even if a sweet guy folds a thousand paper cranes. Just for her.”
― Sydney Salter, Swoon at Your Own Risk

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“I think it's because he likes you.'
'Well, that's too bad. I've given up that kind of thing.'
'What kind of thing?'
'Love, dating, the inevitable ensuing heartbreak.”
― Sydney Salter, Swoon at Your Own Risk

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“You don't have anything to lose by standing up for yourself,' Nando said. 'But you can lose yourself by trying to please everyone.”
― Sydney Salter, Jungle Crossing

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Which book would you like to read for our February Monthly Theme Selection?

Stardust by Neil Gaiman

7 votes 23.3%

My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent

6 votes 20.0%

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

6 votes 20.0%

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter

5 votes 16.7%

Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George

5 votes 16.7%

My Big Nose & Other Natural Disasters by Sydney Salter

1 vote 3.3%

Oh. My. Gods. by Tera Lynn Childs

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Kissing Booth by Lexie Hill

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“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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