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New Years Wishes from Great Plains/Enfield & Wizenty Authors

Great Plains would like to wish everyone the very best for 2013! With all the affection and sentiment of the season, our authors offer their greatest wishes for now, tomorrow and all the year to come!

Noni

I wish for a tolerant world.

— Noni Campbell-Horner, author of Red River Remembered, A Bicentennial Collection of Stories and Recipes

 

 

Russ-and-Miko

If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of     harmony and peace.

If I had two wishes that I could wish for this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of    harmony and peace.. and the second would be for $30 million a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account .

— Russ Gourluck, Author ofSilver Screens on the Prairie, an Illustrated History of Motion Picture Theatres in Manitoba

(with thanks to Steve Martin)

  Let 2013 be the year where acts of kindness make the news more often than acts of violence.

      — Nelsa Roberto, Author of The Break

  I wish for a magic cursor to dance over my words, to pause at questionable choices, bounce at unnecessary adverbs &  adjectives, and sparkle where sparkle is due.
                                                                             — Brenda Hammond, Author of Cape Town
sean
  My New Year’s wish is that the 125th MCA bonspiel in January is a truly memorable event.
                     — Sean Grassie, Author of Kings of the Rings, 125 Years of the World’s Biggest Bonspiel
Everyone knows it’s bad luck to make wishes, like getting a tattoo of your girlfriend’s name or being rude to panhandlers.  But I wouldn’t object to a good night’s sleep.
— Kevin Marc Fournier, Author of  The Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City  (and father)
   My one wish for the new year is that there be a Nobel Prize for YA fiction.
        — Jocelyn Shipley, Author of How to Tend a Grave

Great Plains would like to wish everyone the very best for 2013! With all the affection and sentiment of the[...]