Tomorrow I will have a guest blog from Julie Lomoe who has been named 2009 Author of the Year by the Friends of the Albany Public Library. She’ll be honored at a luncheon on November 14th, and she’s scheduled her first Blog Book Tour to help celebrate and spread the word about this achievement. Julie […]
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We are having a wonderful Fine Arts Market in Winnsboro this weekend and I am signing copies of One Small Victory. Today I was there in the afternoon and will go back tomorrow afternoon from 12 until 4. One of the neat things about this signing event is that it is at a gallery where
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It’s Not a Death Squad Thousands of people are protesting the health care plan being considered in Washington for all the wrong reasons. They are zeroing in on the section on end-of-life issues and promoting the idea that the provision means the government will be telling people when to die. Sarah Palin is one of
I am a picky reader. I’ll freely admit that. It isn’t often that I pick up a book and find reading time infringing on working time, and sleeping time, and eating time, and well, any time. While I enjoy a good story and read a lot of popular fiction, I am usually able to discipline
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More fun from Tracy Farr….. Learning your lessons the bus driver way It takes a special kind of person to drive a school bus. Not just any Joe or Jane can do it, and most of us wouldn’t even try. But those who feel the calling – those who dare to get behind the big
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This is an excerpt from my new book , a humorous memoir titled A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. One of these days I might even finish it and find a publisher for it. Halloween is not like it used to be. With concerns over Politically Correct costumes, candy that has been tampered with,
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Today being Halloween Eve, if Halloween is important enough to have an Eve, I thought I would have some fun with spiders… er, I mean about spiders. I’m not nearly as terrified of them as I used to be, but still, there are limits. I thought about doing this blog the other day when I
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Here is another review of a book that would make a wonderful gift. I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing this book when it first came out as a self-pubbed book through IUniverse. After it got rave reviews it was picked up by a major publisher and re-released this year. A wonderful read…. STILL
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I love to read interviews with authors, especially when each interview covers something new and different — not just the latest promo for a book. Perhaps this comes from all the years I spent doing feature articles and profiles of people. I like to go beyond the surface and find out interesting details about a
Today, I am recommending a book for the children on your holiday shopping list. I met this author at a signing event and fell in love with her books. She has a whole series featuring a family of dogs, and this one is her latest. The Mystery of the Spaniel Family’s Dog House This delightful
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