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Contest and Contract Anniversary-Thoughts on Thursday
Yesterday, February 5 was the one-year anniversary of the day I signed my first contract with the wonderful folks at MuseItUp Publishing. Yea! Whoopee! Fireworks! Confetti! Balloons! CONTEST In honor...
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Choices, Courage, and Wisdom
I’m returning to the Mandala Messages for this post. It strikes me that we have many choices in front of us every day. Do we choose to ignore the ringing alarm, possibly making us run late to work, so...
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TRUTH BE TOLD Release Day Party with Guest Authors
Thanks to all the folks who participated Friday on the Release Day Party and/or liked my Author FB Page. I hope it was fun for all of you. I had a blast! And gosh the food and drinks were yummy. I...
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My-Writing-Process-Blog-Hop
I don’t ususaly write much here at Thoughts on Thursday about writing. (except around release time ) But Matthew Peters, a fellow MIU author, asked me to participate in a blog hop on the Writing...
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Pups and Weight and Writing
Those of you who read Thoughts on Thursday regularly may remember that last July, the week before and the week after VERMONT ESCAPE was e-released, we lost one pup and then the other. The outpouring of...
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CROWDSOURCING—SERIES TITLE—CONTEST
I don’t often write specifically about writing here, but today I need your help. I’m publishing my 3rd book in February or March. I’ve announced its name as SECOND CHANCES. That’s part of my tag line,...
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Ooops! Already Spilled the Beans!
This will be old news for all of you who follow me on Facebook, but things just happened yesterday that I had to shout about then. The first was that I FINALLY sent to the formatters, SECOND ACT, a...
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AUGUST HEAT!
It’s Tuesday and I’m staring at the keys wondering what to write about for the Thursday blog. We may ramble a bit over several topics with a variety of photos August Heat: My stars and garters, it...
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Tales of a Frustrated Author
TRUTH BE TOLD was ready to be uploaded to Createspace in early July. I had cold feet. Authors get SENDPHOBIA. It’s a malady that keeps us from readily pushing the send button on our work to SEND it to...
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Book Signing & Thanksgiving Update
I’m beginning with my Book Signing on Sunday, December 4 3-5 pm at Salon 70 5730 Locke Ave. Fort Worth, TX 76107 in case you’re busy and can’t read all of this blog. Please tell your friends who are in...
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The Dog Days of Summer
I may have used this title before, but it’s so fitting for this almost middle of July. In Fort Worth, Texas, we are having something of a typical summer–weather-wise. Highs are in the mid to upper 90s....
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Books
I don’t do this very often. In fact, I can’t remember doing this before in just the same way, but we’re returning from Maine today. While many of you following my blog have probably read many of my...
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Thanksgiving and Civics and Writing
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with lots of good food, family, football (if you’re a fan), and fun times. We had the family over and really good food. Unfortunately, I took very few pictures....
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Happy New Year, Y’all!
Welcome to 2020, a new year and a new decade. Ten years ago, I had been retired from education for about 2½ years and was learning the craft of writing. My first book (the fourth I wrote) was published...
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Busy February
Which begins Saturday. Where did January go? If this is any indication of how time will fly this year, well, WOW. To begin with on Monday, I’ll be teaching a 4-week course on Indie Publishing for the...
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Pandemic’s Effects Part 2
Last week I sent out my NEWSLETTER. Hope you got it because this post picks up from there and goes on. Here’s the link if you’re not receiving it, and if not, why not?...
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Voting & Halloween & Marketing
Crazy title, right? But next Tuesday is the day all our votes will be counted. Lots of us have voted early. If you still have a mail in ballot, please hand deliver it to a drop off box or the polling...
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Veterans Day and Free Books
Charley came out to watch me take a pic of the flag. Yesterday, we flew our flag outside our house to commemorate Veterans Day. My father served in North Africa in WWII, Korea, and Thailand during the...
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Almost Here
By that I mean Christmas is almost here. I’m sending this out before my regular Thursday blog day because I’m pretty certain Christmas Eve will find you busy with family, last minute shopping, and...
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VULNERABLE Tease
Before I give you the beginning of my 10th book, I want to encourage you to sign into the WORTH THE WAIT Seasoned Romance Readers Facebook group. On Saturday, Oct. 29 you’ll get to meet authors of...
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