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1. SONGS OF SADNESS, SONGS OF LOVE, by Larry K. Andrews. (Mystery-Romance. Author House, ISBN 978-1-4567-1595-3) This is the story of Ryan Graves, a young boy growing up with the usual fears of adolescence, and a physical disability that causes him even greater agony and heightened fears and of being rejected by his peers. The reader empathizes with this young man as he goes through middle school, high school, and the university with new emotional challenges at each level. This is a study about how people respond to challenging experiences in their lives; some people are overwhelmed and defeated by their challenges while others accept and accommodate them, moving onwards to successful adulthood

I'm like Terril Owens looking for another chance

Part of my ancient history:

Lancelot Andrewes

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Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. During the latter's reign,  Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the Authorized Version (or King James Version) of the Bible. 

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Lancelot Andrewes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lancelot Andrewes (1555 – 25 September 1626) was an English bishop and scholar, who held high positions in the Church of England during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I. During the latter's reign,  Andrewes served successively as Bishop of Chichester, Ely and Winchester and oversaw the translation of the Authorized Version (or King James Version) of the Bible. In the Church of England he is commemorated on 25 September with a Lesser Festival.

Early life, education and ordination

Andrewes was born in 1555 near All Hallows, Barking, by the Tower of London - originally a dependency of Barking Abbey in Barking, Essex, of an ancient Suffolkfamily later domiciled at Chichester Hall, Rawreth; his father, Thomas, was master of  Trinity House. Andrewes attended the Cooper's free school, Ratcliff, in the parish of Stepney and then the Merchant Taylors' School under Richard Mulcaster. In 1571 he entered Pembroke Hall, Cambridge and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, proceeding to a Master of Arts degree in 1578.[1] His academic reputation spread so quickly that on the foundation in 1571 of Jesus College, Oxford he was named in the charter as one of the founding scholars "without his privity" (Isaacson, 1650); his connection with the college seems to have been purely notional, however.[2] In 1576 he was elected fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; in 1580 he took orders[3] and in 1581 was incorporated MA at Oxford. As catechist at his college he read lectures on the Decalogue (published in 1630), which aroused great interest.

Andrewes was the brother of the scholar and cleric Roger Andrewes who also served as a translator for the King James Version of the Bible.

Write like a writer

If you want to be recognized as a "writer," there's no proscribed wardrobe, no preferred, or a sexy alias or pen name. Having published four textbooks and two novels, I have some advice for the aspiring writers. First, the basics. You must, you absolutely must know when and why to use the following items the way successful (that means published)writers use them:  it/it's, there/their/they're, to/two/too. Treat the languages with care and precision. In the last six weeks I've recorded these unconventional usages:   1. The nerve of the person who lives below Tom and I . . . 2. My son and I was conversing... 3. People allow "X" to run there life... 4. I probably should have went to a restaurant . . . Sentences like these will stop an editor from reading further in a manuscript. Any consideration of the  manuscript will end, full stop. "but I'm an informal blogger" is no excuse! "But I'm merely commenting on a book in goodreads, The Reading Room," and the like is no excuse! Writers who are recognized as writers write like writers, not 7th graders.