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When A Girl's Dream Come True came out last week, I made an error. I uploaded the WRONG MANUSCRIPT and unfortunately, those of you that pre-ordered the book received a previous draft instead of the polished, completed novel. Since then, I've had issues getting Amazon to accept said novel. For those Read more of this blog post »

Ah, complications. Kicking a novel out the door in November and doing NaNoWriMo would work a bit better if I had completely finished the novel's work.

Then, I'm just about done. It will mean more writing even in November, but then we shall see.

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The Return of Keynes

This post is taken from a chapter in my book, 







The Biggest Mistakes in History







 







which is a critique of the policies of Barack Obama. This chapter discussed the influence on Mr. Obama of economists inspired by the economic principles of John Maynard Keynes. Thi

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Primeval Origins: Rise of Serpents earns its 17th award honor in the 2019 BookLife Prize Fiction Contest!
The BookLife and Publisher's Weekly contest had a huge volume of contest entries...almost 800 books. Primeval Origins: Rise of Serpents was selected as one of 12 books to earn the place of Quarte Read more of this blog post »

Reflections on the Battle of Britain
and our debt to the ‘few’

“The odds were great; our margins small; the stakes infinite.” —Churchill

Forgive this longer post, but there is much to say and our debt is great.

The Battle of Britain is one of the mos

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I am thrilled to have my poem “Ocracoke Night Magic” (reprint) published by Poetry and Places. Thank you, Editor Melanie!

https://poetryandplaces.com/2020/10/3...

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AUTHOR’S PHOTO CAPTION: With my son Damon on the ferry crossing from Hatteras Island to Ocraco Read more of this blog post »

Thanks to anyone who has enough interest in my work to read this blog post. I wanted to share some things:

1. White Kitty has been out of print for some time, and it's incredibly hard to find any copies anymore. I have plans to put a new edition of it back in print, along with its short sequel, the n Read more of this blog post »

Thank you everyone for the amazing reviews of "Broccoli Rob and the Garden Singers." I'm thrilled so many children love the book and the illustrations, it's exactly why I wanted to see this book go into publication! See the Amazon reviews at https://amazon.com/product-reviews/B0... Broccoli Rob and Read more of this blog post »

(Which means: How far will you go for Rome? And this is actually from the game Rome 2: Total War)
- Will you fight for your country? - Florence asked me out of blue, while we had some smoking break back in those days when I was still a heavy smoker.
- Is that a rhetorical question?
- No, it's not. I am Read more of this blog post »

WAITING ON THE RAIN

Being blind doesn’t hold Ava Bennet back in the least. With her work, her shopping, and public transportation within walking distance, she’s totally at home in the big city. But she’s not in the city now. Temporarily back in her small home town to help her father has her strugglin Read more of this blog post »

[[[El mérito está en hacer algo que no habías hecho nunca antes, y que pueda conducirte al fracaso. ¿Qué mérito tiene hacer algo que sabes que seguramente te saldrá bien? Escribiré un libro que no sepa escribir. (Juán Tallón).
Eu adoro escribir dende a perspectiva feminina. Creo que nunca escribirei Read more of this blog post »

Author interview with Kristy Mickelsen, author of Lady for Hire
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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"Savanna Clark was no stranger to hardship. At twenty-four years of age, she had lost everything important to her and was living in her car out on the streets . Wade Sorensen, a recently widowed forty-year-old Read more of this blog post »

The Player, Player Piano Mysteries Book 1, is featured in the Mysterical-E Fall 2020 edition! Dreamspinner Press
http://mystericale.com/article/excerp...

it is good to know
that good people
are good
at being good.
but what is good
for you
may be bad for me.
a universal good
is hard to define.
except that it can
in no way
be bad for you or me.
if that is the case
maybe we can
make a deal.
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نوال السعداوي هي طبيبة أمراض صدرية وكاتبة وروائية مصرية ولدت في عام 1931 بقرية كفر طحلة بمحافظة القليوبية ، تعتبر نوال من أشد المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان بشكل عام وحقوق المرأة بشكل خاص. كتبت العديد من الكتب عن المرأة في الإسلام، كما اشتهرت بمحاربتها لظاهرة ختان الاناث.

حياتها العلمية والعملية :
تخرجت نو Read more of this blog post »

“You made me fudge?”

Dammit. He looked pleased by that. He was so going to get the wrong idea. Especially when she told him the whole story. She sighed.

“Yeah. I made it around Christmas. I was going to mail it to you but then… I changed my mind.”

“You were going to send me fudge for Christmas?” he a Read more of this blog post »

Both 'sequels' to 'Jupiter Ascending are 'in that can!' 'Jupiter Opposing,' and 'Jupiter Eclipsing' and done and DONE. Now, I am focusing on enjoying some NaNoWriMo time with my own original work. Currently, the working titles are 'Severed Worlds Volume I: A Song for Sea and Sky.' Even beings as pow Read more of this blog post »

https://portuguesescontemporaneos.home.blog/2020/10/28/a-arca-joel-g-gomes/ 

 «“O Mal Humano” é uma ambiciosa série literária do autor dos romances Um Cappuccino Vermelho e A Imagem, e este é o episódio de arranque, um conto que lida com a perda, o sentido de dever e as consequências (não desprovidas

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Today I'm honored to be the guest on the Thoughts From A Page podcast! We talk about writing, wildlife research, and wolverines!

Please come on over and have a listen!

https://www.thoughtsfromapage.com/ali... Read more of this blog post »

Stunned. Simply stunned. Robert James Waller's "The Bridges of Madison County" is a NYT bestseller for the very best reasons. It's absorbing. It's moving. It's heartwarming and heartbreaking.

As an author of love stories, I have no idea why I haven't read "Bridges" before. I suppose I saw the movie Read more of this blog post »

 the sun was out today, a complete 180 from yesterday. it was windy and a little cold, but a pretty nice day for this late in October.

i had to go pick up my prescription from the pharmacy today. i decided to check and see if i could find any baseball cards at Walgreens. of course, there was none

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RELEASE DAY ANNOUNCEMENT

It’s been awhile. Okay. A long while. But Capturing Fate has a release date!

1/28/21

You know what’s special about that day? It’s the 28th anniversary of the day I met my husband!

A little about Capturing Fate…

Secrets. Lies. Can love uncover the truth?

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Happy Halloween, everyone!

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"We laugh. We drink. We rinse and repeat.”

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In preparation for Rules Of Engagement's upcoming release, I made a command decision on something that has been bouncing around in my head since I started writing Jocko's story.
Since all my heroes are badass men, and most are former military, I thought why not tie them all together in a series of si Read more of this blog post »