Patricia Stoltey

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Is It Wednesday Already?

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Boy, time sure flies when you’re having fun. Tomorrow’s Guest I think you’ll enjoy tomorrow’s guest. Evelyn David writes mysteries like I Try Not to Drive Past Cemeteries and Zoned for Murder, but there might be something you don’t know about this author. Yes, this is a teaser. Check back tomorrow and see what I …Read More

Chiseled in Rock Tuesday

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Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer member Wendy Homar’s article about her first rejection letter was published in the November 2010 Rocky Mountain Writer. We’ve reprinted it today at Chiseled in Rock blog for your reading pleasure. I hope you’ll stop by and leave a comment.

The Usual Saturday Stuff on Monday Instead

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I announced a book giveaway on Saturday, so today’s post is the kind of stuff I usually put up for the weekend. Talking About Colorado Our state has had a very rough summer. We’ve had fires, heat, rain washing down the burn areas and turning our river black, and now the Aurora theater shooting. We …Read More

And the Winner Is…..

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The winner of a copy of Red Tide by Peg Brantley was selected using random.org And the winner is: Margot Kinberg Margot blogs about mysteries at Confessions of a Mystery Novelist. She can also be found on Twitter and Facebook.

Angst and Other Things Authorly by Peg Brantley

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My guest today is Colorado native, Peg Brantley, a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Sisters in Crime. She and her husband make their home southeast of Denver, sharing it with the occasional pair of mallard ducks and their babies, snapping turtles, peacocks, assorted other birds, foxes and a deer named Cedric.  Red Tide …Read More

Is My Blog Taking on a New Life?

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It might seem like that from time to time, but don’t get to accustomed to more posts rather than less. Except for my pre-scheduled guests and Chiseled in Rock Tuesday, which will continue, I’m going to go with the flow, at least for the summer. What I’m Reading I just started Love and Darker Passions …Read More

I Watch Big Brother and I’m Not Ashamed to Admit It

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I also watch Survivor, American Idol, The Amazing Race, The X Factor, So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With the Stars, and The Biggest Loser. The fact that some of these shows are semi-scripted and heavily edited doesn’t bother me a bit. The only thing that does bother me is that I never had …Read More

The Saturday Seven

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Here’s what I have on my agenda: 1.  Garden stuff:  Remove the marigolds from my raised garden bed and replace them with seeds for something edible, probably short season green beans; yank out the stupid spindly tomato plant that has produced nothing and replace it with a big healthy tomato plant…providing the plant doesn’t cost …Read More

Crested Butte Writers’ Conference by Judy Dailey

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Judy Dailey grew up on an eighty-acre organic farm in Indiana. Now she lives on a twelve-hundred square-foot urban farm in Seattle with her husband, a dog and four chickens. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she has an MBA from the University of Washington.  Judy has been a pilot, skydiver, spelunker, bicyclist, hiker, skier, …Read More