Patricia Stoltey

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Mix and Match

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I haven’t done the Mix and Match for a while, so here goes: What I’m Reading: In fiction, I just finished Free Agent by Jeremy Duns, a classic spy story by a debut novelist. I liked it a lot and am looking forward to the next book in the series which is scheduled for 2010. …Read More

An Unexpected Surprise from Colorado Country Life Magazine

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First I received an e-mail from a friend, telling me my first Sylvia and Willie mystery, The Prairie Grass Murders, was one of the mysteries featured in an article in the newest Colorado Country Life magazine, a publication of the Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association. That evening, a member of my critique group handed me …Read More

Story Jumps Boundaries, Characters Are Out of Control

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Lynnette’s story began as a simple novel of suspense. The first outline had only one chapter that was not in Lynnette’s point of view. Then one of the bad guys grew bigger than the part I had given him, so I wrote some chapters from his point of view. He was only a minor bad …Read More

Colorado Author New Releases

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I have three new releases to report from Colorado authors: TERESA FUNKE Teresa Funke‘s 3rd book in the Home-Front Hero Series, V for Victory, was released in October. Product Description from amazon.com: “Based on a true story in the summer of 1943… Twelve-year-old Miguel Montoya feels left behind. Everyone else in his large family is …Read More

Whatever Happened to Lars (Ringstveit) Twedt?

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Lars Ringstveit was a Norwegian who came to the United States with two of his brothers when he was in his teens, sometime in the early 1900s. An older brother, Peter Ringstveit, had immigrated earlier and was already acquiring land and herding sheep in Montana. Peter helped his brothers by sending them money for travel, …Read More

A Blog Post Every Day in November

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As will a few friends from an online class I took in May/June, I will try to post to my blog every single day in November. Why, you ask? For one thing, I believe there are different readers out there in blogger world on the weekend, readers who are too busy to stop by during …Read More

Colorado Snowstorm — My Photos

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I took a snow day yesterday. I finished reading The Ghosts of Belfast by Stuart Neville (which I highly recommend for thriller fans), took a nap, and avoided work, which is why there was no blog post earlier this morning. We cancelled our travel plans for the weekend. And I took a few photos so …Read More

Something About Snowstorms

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By the time you read this, the big snowstorm may have moved into Northern Colorado. I’d be looking forward to it if we hadn’t planned to travel this week. We’ll wait it out through today before canceling anything. Northern Colorado weather doesn’t always do what the forecasters predict. I love snow. I love to stand …Read More

Ten Things to Have on Hand in an Emergency

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As I was trying to wade through my stacks of newsletters and pamphlets, I ran across a booklet on emergency preparedness that our county issued months, if not years, ago. That got me to thinking. Do I have an adequate supply of those items I want to have available in case of blizzards, quarantines, or …Read More