I’ve decided to give away five advance review copies of Dead Wrong instead of the two I advertised. Why? Just because!! I used random.org to select the winners. And here they are: Hilary Melton-Butcher Hilary lives on the other side of the great pond. She blogs at Positive Letters… Inspirational Stories… I first e-met this …Read More
Archives for September 2014
Ta Da…I’m Giving Away Two Advance Review Copies of Dead Wrong
Dead Wrong is now available for pre-order at online booksellers. They say the release date is December 10, 2014 so that’s probably when they’ll be able to ship the book. My publisher’s release date is November 19, 2014 and that’s what I have on all my promotional materials. I’m giving an ARC to two different …Read More
So You Want to Publish An Anthology? Read On…
By Nikki Baird, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Anthology Chair Anthologies have experienced something of a renaissance, thanks to the indie publishing market. Lots of writers have short stories that they’ve written over the years, and in a lot of cases, the publishing rights to those stories revert back to authors fairly quickly, so there aren’t …Read More
The Critters Are Out to Get Me
On September 4th, I wrote about my war with the squirrel over the bird feeder. I now wish to report that the match stands at Squirrel 2, Me 0. Today, however, I bought a really, really long S Hook at Wild Birds Unlimited and hung the feeder from a high limb on the aspen tree …Read More
Serendipity
By Dori Hillestad Butler Hi, Pat! Thanks for hosting me on your blog. I’d like to introduce you to some of the characters from my Haunted Library series for beginning chapter book readers. This is Kaz and his family. Yes, they’re ghosts. Sadly, Kaz was separated from his family at the beginning of book one. …Read More
Being a Book Pusher is a Good Thing
I plan to do a lot of book pushing over the next few months, and that includes books for kidlets, middle grade, and young adult. If you write books for the younger set and want to do a guest post between now and Christmas, email me at the address linked in my blogger profile (right …Read More
Remembering Tina Downey
Tina was important to the blogging community through the A to Z April Challenge and a good friend to many. She will be sadly missed.
My War With the Squirrel and Other Adventures
My War With the Squirrel There’s a squirrel, at least one, that considered one of my bird feeders his personal supply of goodies to stash for the upcoming bitter cold and snowy winter. I went to my favorite bird supply store to look at squirrel guards and discovered they cost more than my bird feeder …Read More