April Coker, Author

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  • New digs. . .

    This won’t matter to you, probably, but this is my first post with WordPress. It looks very different from Blogger, and I hope it’s more readable and enjoyable to you. I’m still learning the site and will be learning for a long time, so please be patient with me! In the meantime, drop me a…

  • Meet Jolie

    You probably know by now that I am an author with two published books to my credit.  If you’re curious, check out my website:  www.aprilnunncoker.com.  How would you like to meet the main character of my upcoming novel The Keeper? Fantastic!  Here she is now.   (A short and slim young woman with flaming red…

  • Chinaberries and the Great Cedar Tree

    The trail leading from the James house to the Hough’s residence cut through a small forest–probably just a wind break–full of chinaberry trees.  They dropped china berries which we used to pelt each other in china berry fights.  I steered clear because those marble-sized things hurt when they hit you.  I enjoyed that small trail because I…

  • I’ve Fallen, But I Can Still Get Up!

    Every time I go to the doctor’s office, they pull out their list of questions.  One of them is: have you fallen recently?  My answer these days?  Probably. It seems that I can’t seem to stand on my own two feet sometimes.  And my poor knees are taking a beating.  At this rate, I’m going…

  • A Vignette for Valentine’s Day

    Don’t you love that word “vignette”?  (Does the question mark belong before or after the quotation mark?  I am a certified English teacher and I can’t tell you!)   Anyway, back to vignette. It’s French for “little vine.”  It refers to a brief evocative scene or display or a little drawing on a page.  In…