Patricia Stoltey

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October Book Giveaway by Mystery Writers of America

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It’s that time again. The Mystery Writers of America have listed the October books to be given away through the MWA website at their Contests for Readers page. Here are the titles: The Extinction Event by David BlackFor Richer, For Danger by Lisa BorkSudden Death by Allison BrennanMidnight Angels by Lorenzo CarcaterraEvil in Carnations by …Read More

My Writing Life by Ginger Simpson, Guest Blogger

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Today I’m pleased to introduce Ginger Simpson, a versatile and prolific author who has written novels in a number of genres from contemporary and historical romance to stories of life challenges, including a bit of unexpected time travel. Ginger even gave erotica a shot, as you’ll read below. And to demonstrate her versatility, she has …Read More

Wednesday Bits and Pieces

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Tomorrow’s Guest Blogger I hope you drop by tomorrow to read about Ginger Simpson’s writing life. Well-published in romance and historical romance, Ginger is now set on conquering the YA genre. Here’s the trailer for Shortcomings, scheduled for release in 2011 from Muse It Up Publishing. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) I’m thinking seriously about …Read More

Don’t Go Away, No Matter What the Award Says

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Here’s some good stuff I found this week from a couple of my favorite blogs: Cricket McRae talks about To Do Lists and priority tasks in Insane Time Management at her blog, Hearth Cricket. In A Lesson on Focus at Two Old Horses and Me, Jean McBride gives us an example from the workday of …Read More

A Little More About That Road Trip to Illinois

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On our road trip through eastern Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois, we saw a lot of country that looked like this: And some that looked like this: And I attended that 50th high school class reunion where we had a chance to revisit and tour our school and reminisce about the torture inflicted on us …Read More

A Blog for Writers Who Are Introverts (Aren’t We All?)

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I found the most delightful blog for writers this week, and I want to pass these links on to you, especially those of you who consider yourselves introverts. As a matter of fact, these posts will be as interesting to bloggers and other readers as they will be to writers. The blog is Shrinking Violet …Read More

My Writing Life by Vivian Zabel, Guest Blogger

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Author Vivian Zabel is my guest today with her story about following our dreams. She has such an interesting background that I won’t try to tell all in this little introduction. Her website’s “About Vivian” is worth a visit. For one thing, Vivian is a great-grandma, which I suspect ranks right up there with writer …Read More

Wednesday Bits and Pieces

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Thursday’s Guest I hope you’ll stop by tomorrow to meet Vivian Zabel, author of Stolen. Elspeth’s Back But drop by her Sept. 28th blog post to see where she went for a writing retreat (and read the ten things she learned there). And That’s All for Today! I know. This is kind of short. But …Read More

The Class of 1960 Reunion

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When I first began talking about this class reunion, one of my blogger friends mentioned I should read author Harlan Coben’s article about his 30-year reunion. I found it and recommend it to you. I, of course, was attending a 50-year reunion. Even though the number still makes no sense to me (and most of …Read More