Fiction Friday
Fiction Friday: Name That Book
Welcome to Fiction Friday, your opportunity to watch my mind leapfrog about. Each Friday here is a bit different, just to keep the boredom factor at a minimum. Sometimes you’ll read an excerpt from one of my novels, sometimes a friend or colleague’s. Eventuallythere may be some original offerings. I want to make this fun…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Death and Enchiladas
Welcome to Fiction Friday, your weekly opportunity to read excerpts of my novels or novels of other writers that I think you might like. Today’s excerpt is from New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson with the permission of her publisher William Morrow and Diane herself. This seems particularly appropriate because Diane was one…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Another Time and Place, and Another Author
Welcome to Fiction Friday, my chance each week to share excerpts of my own novels or novels of other writers that I think you might like. Today is one of the latter. If you’ve followed my blog you know that author Diane Chamberlain is a good friend and one of my own favorite reads. Diane’s…
Read MoreFiction Friday: A Quilt with a Story to Tell
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance to share some of my stories with you. For the past two Fridays I’ve posted excerpts from the first two novels in my Shenandoah Album series. Today’s excerpt is from book three, Lover’s Knot, which was reissued in May as a trade paperback. All three of these books are also…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Quilting Bees and Bees in the Bonnet
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance to share excerpts of some of my books with you. While I’m starting with those currently on sale, eventually some may be entirely new. In fact, some may even be excerpts from other people’s books. This is definitely a work in progress. Last week I introduced you to Nancy,…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Three Generations of Women and a Wedding Ring Quilt
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance to share snippets of my books with you. While I’m starting with some of my books currently on sale, eventually some may be entirely new. Today’s excerpt is from Wedding Ring, the first book of the Shenandoah Album series. Wedding Ring and the next two novels, Endless Chain and…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Kangaroos, Koalas and Wallabies
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance to share snippets of my books with you. Some are old, some might be books in progress, eventually some may be entirely new content. Today’s excerpt is from the fourth and final book of my Tales of the Pacific series, which was originally issued in 1988-89, and tells the story…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Opal Dreams and Barroom Brawls
Welcome to Fiction Friday, a chance for me to share bits of novels written or novels in progress. I spent much of the past month editing my Tales of the Pacific series written in the late 1980s so I could reissue each of the four as ebooks. For the past two Fridays I’ve introduced you…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Tough Guys and Sophisticated Women?
Welcome to Fiction Friday. I can see it’s going to be lots of fun finding excerpts for you to enjoy from books I’ve written. Clearly the four ebooks I’ve recently put on line are the ones on my mind and therefore the ones I’ll be sharing with you for a while. This is an excerpt…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Lovers Reunited
Welcome to my new blog feature, Fiction Friday, where on Fridays–whenever I can–I’ll share a snippet from a novel I’m writing or have written. The snippets won’t always be the beginning of a story, like today’s, but they will always be something I hope you’ll enjoy. Today’s excerpt is from my novel From Glowing Embers,…
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