Patricia Stoltey

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Being a Book Pusher is a Good Thing

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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

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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

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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

The two winners of a copy of “When the Past Haunts You”

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We had two copies of L.C. Hayden’s Harry Bronson mystery, When the Past Haunts You, to give away. The winners are: Susan Oleksiw Author of the Anita Ray Mystery Series (For the Love of Pavarti, May 2014, Five Star) and Dean K. Miller Author of And Then I Smiled: Reflections on a Life Not Yet …Read More

I’m a Fan of L.C. Hayden’s Harry Bronson

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When I found out L.C. Hayden’s 4th Harry Bronson mystery, When the Past Haunts You, was about to be published in mass market paperback by the wonderful Harlequin Worldwide Mystery online book club, I asked L.C. if she would like to give away a copy or two and let me promote the book on my …Read More

Getting Back in the Groove

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Boy, getting my eyes fixed was more of an ordeal than I expected. The two cataract surgeries were fine with no hitches, but that two weeks in between when my eyes weren’t working together was even more torture than the problems I had leading up to surgery. Now at least I can see distance with …Read More

Sure was easy to select the winner of The Enlisted Men’s Club

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There was only one entry, so I didn’t even need random.org to help select: Kenneth Harmon (author of the soon-to-be-released The Amazing Mr. Howard) as the winner of a copy of The Enlisted Men’s Club  by Gary Reilly. Congratulations, Ken

The Enlisted Men’s Club by Gary Reilly

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I’m a big fan of Gary Reilly’s Asphalt Warrior series which I’ve mentioned on this blog many times. The Denver cab driver, Murph, is my hero–a business world dropout and wanna-be author who drives a cab and has two rules for living. One….he wants to make a minimum amount of money each day to sustain …Read More

Will Write for Food … by Eileen Goudge

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I have an ironic T-shirt that says WILL WRITE FOR FOOD. I laugh whenever I put it on because it’s not far from the truth. There were some lean years in the beginning when a check meant the difference between grocery money and going hungry. 15 published novels later, I no longer worry about putting …Read More