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Hi.

Welcome to This Awful/Awesome Life! My name is Frances Joyce. I am the publisher and editor of this magazine. We'll be exploring different topics each month to inform, entertain and inspire you. Meet new authors, sharpen your brain and pick up a few tips on life, love, entertaining and business. Enjoy and please share!

Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - April 2020

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There are three major religious holidays during the month of April. Passover begins April 8 and ends April 16. April 12 is Easter and Ramadan begins on April 23 and ends May 23. Whether you will be celebrating this April or not, we at This Awful Awesome Life wish you joy, health and happiness.

April should be bringing us spring flowers and warmer weather. If you haven’t started spring cleaning, what are you waiting for?

We will have a few cleaning tips for you in our April issue and Linda Cahill will have some quick and easy recipes from Pampered Chef.

Orlando Bartro will be back with something brilliant and we hope to have some fabulous articles from our guest contributors. As always we will have book reviews and book recommendations and I’ll be sharing photos of my March Lemon Meringue Pie and planning for my April French Silk Pie. Who knows, I might make both pies for the upcoming issue.

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Don’t miss April 2020 in pictures and our Author’s Page featuring links to purchase novels by some talented authors who have been featured in This Awful Awesome Life.

As much as we love publishing this magazine and sharing it with the world for free, we need to make some tough decisions about how to monetize what we do, so we can start paying for submissions. Writing is a labor of love, but it’s also a profession for many of us.  We’ll keep you posted.

See you next month!

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Fran

Answers to the March 2020 Women Directors Quiz:

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Directors:

1.       Elizabeth Banks (2)         Charlie’s Angels    Pitch Perfect II

2.       Kathryn Bigelow (4)        Detroit   Point Break    The Hurt Locker 

Zero Dark Thirty    

3.       Patricia Cardoso (1)        Real Women Have Curves    

4.       Niki Caro (4)                       Mulan (Live action film 2020 release) 

   North Country    The Zoo Keeper’s Wife

    Whale Rider

5.       Gurinder Chadha (1)       Bend it Like Beckham

6.       Sofia Coppola (2)             Lost in Translation    The Virgin Suicides

7.       Ava DuVernay (2)            A Wrinkle in Time    Selma

8.       Nora Ephron (2)                Julie & Julia    Sleepless in Seattle

9.       Greta Gerwig (2)              Lady Bird    Little Women       

10.   Debra Granik (2)               Leave No Trace    Winter’s Bone                            

11.   Catherine Hardwicke(2) Lords of Dogtown    Thirteen  

12.   Amy Heckerling (2)          Clueless   

Fast Times at Ridgemont High               

13.   Courtney Hunt (1)           Frozen River      

14.   Patty Jenkins (3)              Monster    Wonder Woman       

Wonder Woman 1984 (TBA 2020)

15.   Karyn Kusama (1)             Girlfight             

16.   Barbara Kopple (1)          Harlan County USA (documentary)        

17.   Kasi Lemmons (1)            Eve’s Bayou

18.  Ida Lupino (2)                    Outrage    The Hitch-hiker            

19.  Penny Marshall (3)          A League of Their Own    Awakenings 

   Big

20.  Elaine May (1)                   A New Leaf    The Heartbreak Kid

21.  Nancy Meyers (2)            It’s Complicated    Something’s Gotta Give

22.  Mira Nair (3)                      Carrie    Monsoon Wedding   

Queen of Katwe

23.  Kimberly Peirce (1)         Boys Don’t Cry

24.  Sarah Polley (1)                Stories We Tell

25.  Gina Prince-Bythewood (2)  Love and Basketball   

The Secret Life of Bees      

26.  Lynne Ramsay (1)            You Were Never Really Here

27.  Dee Rees (1)                      Pariah

28.  Marjane Satrapi (1)         Persepolis           

29.  Nora Twomey (1)             The Breadwinner

30.  Olivia Wilde (1)                 Booksmart

               

                                               

Building a Team

February 2020 in This Awful Awesome Life