Here in Texas the gardening season is just beginning. It’s time to plant early spring crops such as peas and spinach and carrots and onions. I’m late getting mine planted, but I have been digging a few rows a day for the past month – except when it turned bitter cold – and I will […]
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Thanks to Carl Brookins for sharing another book review with us…. Big WheatBy Richard A. ThompsonPoisoned Pen Press 2011ISBN: 978-1-59058-820-8 World War I is done and Charlie Krueger’s older brother is never coming home. Charlie, his sister and their mother must cope with an increasingly abusive drunken father and husband. The summer of 1919 wanes
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In central Texas there is a wide area of devastation where trees are dying, as well as other vegetation. Environmentalists believe the sulfur dioxide emitted by the Fayette Power Plant is to blame. However, the plant’s operator and the state’s Environmental Regulator deny pollution is to blame for the swaths of plant devastation. Pecan groves
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Writing Duets? We’re going to go out on a limb here. We’re going to advise you to go against conventional wisdom about writing a book. Here’s our suggestion: Find a co-author on the Internet and write 2 books and countless short stories together without ever meeting in person. What? That sounds crazy. We know. And
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Thanks for allowing me to visit today, Maryann. I really enjoy your blog and am thrilled to have the opportunity to contribute. One of the things I’ve learned in the past couple of years is that most of us writers have talents we’ve never tapped into. Sure, we can write. But we tend to stick
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Before I do the review of this book, I want to mention that I am the guest today on the blog for Creatures & Crooks Books. The owner, Lelia Taylor, is known for being a cat-lover, so she has started a series of guest blogs about cats. Sometimes she’ll let a dog in, just for
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Today’s Odds and Ends are going to be a little different. I’m going to have a couple of guests on my blog this coming week and I wanted to give a little introduction today. Monday, Linda Faulkner will be here to offer some tips on the business side of writing. As much as we hate
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My Liitle Barn Instead of doing one of my usual rants about something, I thought I would just share some pictures I took this morning. Texas has some of the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets that I have ever seen, and this morning was a great one. I’m glad my animals woke me up in
Since I missed my usual Sunday review yesterday, I thought I would post one today. Again, thanks to Carl Brookins for sending the reviews. Bird Lives!Author, Bill MoodyPublisher: WalkerISBN: 0-8027-3327-1pub. date: 1999248 pages, hardcover Another fine novel in the Evan Horn series. A smoothly written psychological thriller. it’s tight, fast-paced, and should greatly please fans
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It might seem a bit odd to be doing this in the dead of winter, but I have been digging in my garden the last few days, turning a few rows a day. I remember when I used to be able to turn the whole plot in an afternoon. That young person is hidden somewhere
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