Who Are You Exactly? Just Take a Quiz and Find Out.
There’s a new wave sweeping social media. Take a few moments, take one of a gazillion possible quizzes and you’ll answer that all-important existential question. Who am I? Sort of. For instance, this month I discovered that I am Snuffleupagus from Sesame Street, Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory, Bones from Star Trek,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Engage
I was inspired by this 2 minute video on Youtube, and I think you will be too: Engage It’s meant for Valentine’s Day, but shouldn’t every day be Valentine’s Day? How do you plan to engage?
Read MoreFiction(less) Friday: The Two Day a Week Diet Cookbook
What a special treat today for Valentine’s day. While I know this spot is billed as Fiction Friday, today’s excerpt is actually a recipe from a new cookbook, The Two Day a Week Diet Cookbook, designed for Amazon’s Kindle. Don’t have a Kindle? You can read the recipes on your computer, smartphone or tablet by downloading…
Read MoreWatering the Newly Planted Seeds of a Novel
Next to “where do you get your ideas?” the question I am most asked is how long it takes me to write a book. That question is asked a variety of ways. Some people, when learning I’ve published more than seventy novels, seem to believe I walk into my study every morning, press a button and…
Read MoreAnd the Winner is. . .
Congratulations to Sandy Heringer who was the winner of a copy of Tear Down and Die by Joanna Campbell Slan. The first book in Joanna’s new mystery series was featured on Fiction Friday a week ago. As always random.org made the selection.
Read MoreFiction Friday: A Tale of Two Biddies
Happy Friday, avid readers. Casey Daniels/Kylie Logan has visited us before, but today I asked her to return with the second book in her new mystery series, A Tale of Two Biddies. I love Kylie’s titles. Does this one sound familiar? Not surprisingly. Each title and each novel, for that matter, owes a little something to…
Read MoreI’m Posting, but I Can’t Get Up (on your Facebook Newsfeed)
So, you’ve liked my Facebook Page, but you’ve stopped receiving my Page posts in your Facebook newsfeed. Have I given up on Facebook? Discovered the joys of trying to communicate in 140 characters on Twitter? Decamped to Google+? Not at all? It’s not me posting less, it’s Facebook’s new algorithm program. Don’t stop reading. I won’t…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Take A Chance On Me
This video is going viral on Facebook, and I found it both moving and inspiring. Clearly many of the people who appear here are volunteers with great love for animals and the willingness to work with them even when the outcome isn’t always a happy one. Not only that, they took the time–and it must…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Tear Down and Die plus a Giveaway, too.
Good morning fellow fiction fan. Today we’re featuring a Kindle original from my friend Joanna Campbell Slan. Joanna and I met at a West Virginia Readers/Writers conference some years ago before she was writing fiction, and I’ve so enjoyed watching her career bloom. Joanna is offering to gift a copy of today’s featured book, Tear Down and…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: One Simple Wish
Sometimes inspiration comes in small doses, as small as a child who needs something and has no place to turn. Can you imagine wanting something as simple as a suit to go to a family member’s funeral or music lessons or supplies for school and not being able to have them because you are a…
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