HALLOW: A FRACTURED FAMILY TALE A Black Orchid Enterprises Mystery, Book #5By M.R. Dimond Mystery / Cozy Mystery / Lawyers & Criminals HumorPublisher: Rock Rose PressPages: 321Publication Date: May 30, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Family: What you don’t know can kill you. Young Texas attorney JD Thompson enjoys his life in a small Texas […]
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So, you’d think I’d learn after all the time I’ve spent on this planet, that I should stop making plans. I do suspect that the old cliché, “The best laid plans” and all that was coined just for me. Let me explain. A few weeks ago, I finished the first draft of my WIP, One
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One of the items that pops up in my online mailbox every day is an article from Nice News. Nice news is so much better than some of the other news we see, and the articles they share are always interesting. As is this one about dressing. No, not for the turkey, but how and
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Ta-da! I finished the second draft of One More Time, the third book in the One Small Victory series published by Next Chapter Publishing. The only thing left to do is a read-through for copy editing, then it will be ready to go to the publisher, hopefully in a few days. If your not familiar
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There was a time that my world would come to a screeching halt for the duration of the Olympic games. Summer and winter. It was the one time I’d wrestle control of the television from my hubby – although it wasn’t very hard as he was just as enthralled as I was with watching the
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Wow! What a whirlwind of news this past week. This morning I listened to the Ezra Klein Podcast and had to chuckle when he said his head was spinning with all that has happened in the presidential race since Sunday. He’s not alone. There are many of us scrambling to keep up with the momentum,
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. . . for my writing time on Thursday. Those few hours were going to be dedicated to editing my latest book, but then a news item about this latest medical discovery popped up in my mailbox. The journalist in me was intrigued, and now that it’s so incredibly easy to do research thanks to
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Wow to say that the news over the weekend was horrific is an understatement. For the one person who may not have heard, former president Trump suffered a gunshot wound at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Thankfully, he is okay. A bullet grazed his ear, but he had no other injuries. Sadly Corey Comperatore,
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Welcome to the blog and this guest post from Slim Randles. If you read my post yesterday, you know I just don’t have the spirit, but Slim still does. And his thoughtful essay really does capture the essence and spirit of what this day means to so many. Enjoy… We all watched as the flag
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Patriotism used to run deep in my blood- in my bones. Born on the 4th of July there has always been a strong bond between me and this once Great Nation of the United States. In years past that patriotism would stir an excitement in me as my birthday and the birthday of our independence