Patricia Stoltey

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What the Heck Happened to January?

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Time sure does fly when I’m busy. For that matter, it flies pretty fast when I’m procrastinating, too. I spent a lot of hours in January reading suspense novels. I can recommend author Ruth Ware because I read two of hers and loved them (The Woman in Cabin 10 and In a Dark, Dark Wood). Perfect snowy day reads.

I thought about restarting my diet which bit the dust over the holidays (still thinking).

But let’s talk about other things.

I spent time critiquing for my writers’ group. What an outstanding bunch they are, including our three new members. Two established members have new books released from Black Rose Writing. Gordon MacKinney’s thriller is called Follow Me Down. Upon the Stage of Time is a mystery written by Kenneth W. Harmon.

Much of my time is still going to promotion efforts for Wishing Caswell Dead, released December 20, 2017 from Five Star/Cengage.

And a little research and rewriting time was allocated to my work in process.

My big plan for the weekend is to watch the Super Bowl, including all the commercials. What’s on your agenda?

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If you’re following the guest blog posts and online appearances I’ve done since October, you can add these to the list.

January 4, 2018 Every Month Can Be a New Beginning at the Blood-Red Pencil blog

January 12, 2018 About the Joy of Writing on Jacqueline Seewald’s Author Expressions blog

The older list:

October 17, 2017 Four Things I’ve Learned About Writing Along the Way at Julie Lamoe’s Creative Crone blog
October 25, 2017 After I Put My Novel on the Shelf, Someday Came at Colleen M. Story’s Writing and Wellness blog
October 27, 2017 Can I Write About That? at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Blog
December 4, 2017 Podcast at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers website
December 4-8 and December 11-14, 2017 Pat’s Self-Editing One Step at a Time series on the Blood Red Pencil blog
December 11, 2017 Interview by Margaret Mizushima on her blog
December 15, 2017 Sisters in Crime — Colorado New Release Announcement
December 15, 2017 Book Birth Day Post on the Blood-Red Pencil blog
December 22, 2017 Lois Winston’s Killer Crafts and Krafty Killers blog

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Comments

    • Yes, the new book is fun. The hard part is keeping my rear in the chair and my fingers on the keys. I’m trying to do at last one hour a day at the book in February, which is way better than December and January.

  2. I loved those two books by Ware! I didn’t care for or finish her third, The Lying Game, but that won’t stop me from reading her next one. 🙂

    No Super Bowl plans here. We hope to get out and about this weekend since the weather should be nice for part of it.

    • Hi Madeline! I’m now reading Hallie Ephron’s You’ll Never Know, Dear as well as Upon the Stage of Time by Kenneth W. Harmon. It’s not easy reading two novels at the same time.. I usually have one fiction and one nonfiction going, but two fictions is a challenge.

      The Super Bowl doesn’t start too early, so if it’s nice here, I can still get out and take the dog for a walk. She’s been walk-deprived the last few days because of icy sidewalks. Some of my neighbors aren’t very careful with their sidewalk shoveling.

    • Our favorite football snack is popcorn, but for the Super Bowl I’m adding tortilla chips, guacamole, and salsa. We don’t dare buya lot of other stuff because we have no will power. 😀

  4. Had to laugh about “thinking about my diet” because that’s all I’ve been doing as well. I’m inching my way towards healthier eating once again. Enjoy the game!