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Ellyn Oaksmith

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Ellyn Oaksmith is the USA Today and Kindle bestselling author of the Blue Hills Vineyard Series, featuring the Alvarez family. The books are set in gorgeous Lake Chelan, in the Pacific Northwest. The series includes Summer at Orchard House (July 13th, 2020) and Promises at Indigo Bay, (September 15th, 2020.) In writing her first series, Ellyn chose a real setting with great meaning for her personally and a fictional family like her own, full of smart, independent, funny women and the men who love them.

After Ellyn funded her graduate studies at the American Film Institute by working on fishing boats in Alaska as cook, she began her writing adventure as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Writing, re-writing and pitching movies to producers and navi ...more

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“If you can smile at your troubles then honey, you are half way saved.

- Louise from Adventures with Max and Louise”
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“Sometime I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.” -Katherine Hepburn”
― Ellyn Oaksmith, Divine Moves

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“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. —George Carlin”
― Ellyn Oaksmith, 50 Acts of Kindness

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

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“If you can smile at your troubles then honey, you are half way saved.

- Louise from Adventures with Max and Louise”
― Ellyn Oaksmith, Adventures with Max and Louise

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“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

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