Day 8 – Be a Winner in a Goodreads Giveaway!

Larada Horner-Miller

5 months ago

Be a winner! My new book, Time Measured Out!: Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry is in a Goodreads Giveaway, ending tomorrow, January 9. So, it’s not too late to enter.

How many copies given away?

Being a generous person, I’m giving away 100 free copies of my new book. It sounded like a great number plus I love giving things away. Also, hopefully I will reviews from this!

How many have entered so far?

So what are my odds on winning? Is it a sure thing or not? So far, 485 people have requested this book, so the stats look pretty good. You could be one of the hundred winners in five. Not bad, huh?

Summarize the book for me!

I don’t like wasting my time, so give me the scoop. Award-winning poet Larada Horner-Miller captures life’s profound moments—from 9/11’s harrowing dawn to desert highway adventures in poetry.

No, I like details, more details!

The pen knew what Larada Horner-Miller’s heart couldn’t say aloud. Collecting her thoughts on everything from the harrowing dawn of 9/11 to light-filled RV treks across desert highways, she used poetry to capture ordinary breaths suddenly split open with grief, wonder, and grace. And as her forties brought amazing triumphs and shattering sorrows, she translated days spent teaching and coyote-haunted dawns into soul-soothing stanzas.

An award-winning poet with more than seven decades of life and three-dozen sober years behind her, Horner-Miller invites you to her kitchen-table memories—where resilience is brewed as strong as morning coffee and saguaros raise silent hymns beneath an Arizona sky. And as she lays out insightful observations of the world in pensive verse, her deeply felt truths offer up a healing warmth.

Time Measured Out! is a candid and inspiring book of poetry, and the second volume in the Navigating Life’s Journey Through Poetry series. If you cherish reflective verses, vivid travel vignettes, and bold celebrations of self-reinvention, you’ll adore Larada Horner-Miller’s heartfelt collection.

More info so I can be a winner!

I released this book December 18, 2025, right before Christmas. I had worked on it since April, but my life took a turn and we moved to Panama. What a life changer! This book went on the back burner for several months because of the move. So, when we got settled in, I worked frantically and got it done: the revisions, the layout and everything because I self-publish!

Finally,

Time Measured Out! stands as the second book in a five-book poetry series. Was It a Dream? Is book #1 and just received two awards last week. This is a unique series because it dates back to 1986 and contains poems I committed myself not to revise. I wanted you, the reader, to see my growth through the five books and the forty years. Yes, often, I wanted to correct, to revise, to update, but I promised and I have kept my promise!