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Book Tour: Lethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills

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LETHAL STANDOFFBy DiAnn Mills Contemporary Fiction / Christian Mystery & Suspense / Christian RomancePublisher: Tyndale House PublishersPages: 368Publication Date: September 3, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** ABOUT THE STORY **** Hostage negotiator Carrington Reed faces her most dangerous challenge yet in Lethal Standoff. Called to a tense situation in South Texas, Carrington must save fifteen hostages held […]

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A Friday Read and Bargain Book

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It’s been a while since I showcased, Doubletake, the first mystery I ever wrote. The book is the result of a collaboration between Margaret Sutton and myself and was first released with the pseudonym, Sutton Miller. A nice strong name and early reviewers thought the book had been penned by a man. Go figure. As

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Monday Morning Thoughts

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One of the newsletters I subscribe to comes from History Facts.com and every day a new bit of trivia lands in my mailbox. The short article is always interesting and often delves into little known facts. Such as the ones I stole, er, borrowed to lead off the blog today. First is this about the

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Book Review and Giveaway: Hallow by M.R. Dimond

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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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Book Tour: Deus TEX Machina

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DEUS TEX MACHINA: The Second Calamity ofQED Morningwoodby Rob Witherspoon Science Fiction / Humor / SatirePages: 163Publication Date: June 13, 2022 QED “Kid” Morningwood is back with big plans to create a death tourism industry. Working with his old Metaphysics professor from Texas Alchemical and Metaphysical University, he delves the purgatorial realms gathering data for

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A Perfect Summer’s Evening

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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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Dress For Success or Not

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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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Book News and Inspiration From Slim Randles

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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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Here I Go Again

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Just like Friday’s blog post, the following is another one that wasn’t at all what I’d had in mind. There had been a plan, but that old cliché reared it’s ugly head. “The best laid plans…” and all that. Let me explain. The original idea for today was to share a little bit from a

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