The following excerpt is taken from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant And a Paycheck. Some of this has been on my blog before, but it’s always nice to look back on past holidays and good times with family. For several years, I wrote a weekly column for the Plano Star-Courier. That column was […]
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BEFORE THE ALAMO: A Tejana’s Story by Florence Byham Weinberg Genre: Historical Fiction / Texas History Publisher: Maywood House Date of Publication: September 17, 2021 ** 296 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emilia Altamirano, half Otomí Indian, half pure Spanish, is born in 1814, the year after the Battle of the Medina River, where
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WELCOME to DAY 3 of the @ENIGMASERIES #ShortStory Journey Dec 8th to Dec 15th #GIVEAWAYS Available Today’s gifts include two ebooks of the featured short story — plus one ebook of the newest release Hidden Target. That’s 3 winners. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Author Insights Brayson Morris joins the series in The Enigma Stolen as a part of
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IF A BUTTERFLY SERIES:Book 1 – ChrysalisBook 2- EmergencebyMichael Sirois Publisher: Flio Widdix Publishing ** Date of Publication: December 11, 2021 Scroll down for Giveaway! Nine Characters + One Butterfly = Chaos Theory. The series, If a Butterfly, is a bit like Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon (if Kevin just happened to be
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Open Season is only .99 for Kindle and Kindle apps, so, for the duration of this contest, I’m lowering the price of the other two books in the series to match that. Now is a great time to get all three books at a deep discount. Stalking Season ** Desperate Season By the way, Open
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NOW LIVE! FAKED by Sarah Darlington – a Sexy, Fake-Date, Holiday Romance! $0.99 to read on Amazon or *free* in Kindle UnlimitedShe tends bar at a strip club. Every Wednesday, I visit her. Every Wednesday, I hope for more than, “what’s your drink order?” Until one Wednesday, a week from Christmas, she needs me. Okay… so she needs anyone,
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Over the river, and through the wood, / To grandfather’s house we go.” Most people know those first few lines but ask them to recite the rest of the poem and they may get stuck. Its proper title is “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day” and was written by American poet Lydia Maria Child.
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I’m sharing this meme a friend sent me because when I saw it I thought of the schtick I always did when playing Nona at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts. Nona was always looking for her marbles, going thought the audience asking if anyone had seen them. Okay, I was going to write a
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THE BIG EMPTYbyLoren C. Steffy Genre: Western / Rural Fiction / Small TownPublisher: Stoney Creek Publishing GroupDate of Publication: May 25, 2021Number of Pages: 304 pages Scroll down for the Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When Trace Malloy and Blaine Witherspoon collide on a desolate West Texas highway, their fender bender sets the tone for escalating clashes that
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As if I haven’t had enough losses in my life in recent weeks, my dear friend and writing partner for the Winnsboro history books, Bill Jones, died on Tuesday. He’d had a serious brain bleed that put him in the hospital last week, but he wasn’t a good surgery candidate because of other health issues.