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(The) WRITiNG LIFE--It's ON SALE. (I think)

THE MUSIC BOX
(from the Navajo "Family Blessings" series)
ON SALE$1.49
An affordable and moving love story about finding "home" and at long last,  finding "family."
http://tinyurl.com/y225a74j

(The) WRITING LIFE--BAND OF BROTHERS--Now On Sale

BAND OF BROTHERS

DUTY. HONOR. NO MAN LEFT BEHIND
Marine Sergeant Joshua Caven
Josh finally has his shattered personal life in some kind of order. He has found the family he never knew he had, and thanks to them, he can do his duty and complete his deployment in Afghanistan, knowing his baby daughter is safe. It should be smooth sailing...until Chris Young--the living, breathing reason his wife abandoned him and their baby--is assigned to his unit.
Corporal Danny Benton
Danny knows the Marine Corps basically saved his life, but he still feels guilty for joining--escaping--and leaving his younger brother to deal with their alcoholic father. But there's nothing he can do except be the best Marine he can be and to come home and marry his girl. He has no reason to think she won't wait for him--until a Dear John letter arrives.

Hospital Corpsman Chris Young
It's hard enough to be a sand sailor working with a group of Marines, but when his unit is headed up by the man he unwittingly betrayed, it definitely gets uncomfortable. Then an encounter with local hostiles goes horribly wrong and both men are wounded. His sergeant is in the hospital, fighting for his life. All because he saved Chris's.


A Marine does his duty, no matter what. But what none of them expects is to have their upended lives suddenly made even more complicated by...love.

BAND OF BROTHERS, the stand alone sequel to the THE MARINE (winner of the EPIC 2018 Award for Best Contemporary Fiction).On Sale in all ebook platforms February 1 - February 15, 2019.$0.99Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/yccqdux4Barnes&Noble: https://tinyurl.com/ydbqqhhjKobo: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/band-of-brothers-8Google Books: https://tinyurl.com/yd7n2mgeAnd others.

(The) WRITING LIFE: BAND OF BROTHERS Going On Sale

BAND OF BROTHERS, the stand alone sequel to the THE MARINE, which was the winner of the EPIC 2018 Award for Best Contemporary Fiction, will be on sale in all ebook platforms February 1 - February 15, 2019. $0.99 

WRITING (About) LIFE and (The) WRITING LIFE--Dianne Dengel Print

I got my Merry Christmas a little early, the Dianne Dengel print, “Out to Lunch.” My agent once asked me what I wanted from my writing career, and I said, “I want to be read.” This print is the personification of that. I want readers to grab whatever spare minutes they can find to read my books, and seeing this hard-working little old lady enjoying her romance novel makes me smile.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!

(THE) Writing Life--THE BRIDE FAIR

THE BRIDE FAIR, the companion book to THE PRISONER, is now available in Kindle format in Australia. Both books are winners of the RWA RITA Award for Best Short Historical Novel. https://tinyurl.com/y7qyuogj

(THE) WRITING LIFE--ON SALE

THE MARINE, winner of the 2018 EPIC Award for Best Contemporary Fiction, is ON SALE until July 31. $1.99. Ebook format, all platforms available.

Amazon Link:  http://a.co/0PNCNnL

Kobo Link:  https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-marine-10

B&N: https://tinyurl.com/yafxrexh

(The) Writing Life--An FYI

I've just heard that THE BRIDE FAIR, a Romance Writers of America RITA-Winner for Best Short Historical and the standalone sequel to THE PRISONER, will be available in Australia in the fall. 

(The) WRITING LIFE...

Conventional wisdom has it that books written by men sell better than books written by women. If that is indeed the case, please feel free to think of me as "Charles."


THE MARINE 2018 EPIC Award Winner for Best Contemporary Fiction

and
BAND OF BROTHERS The Stand-Alone Companion Book

WRITING (About) LIFE---The Legacy Garden

Come let me show you the iris patch. It was so cold this past winter, I was afraid they wouldn't bloom:

The first three irises came from my late mother-in-law's iris bed. She loved these flowers, and her backyard was completely turned over to growing them. She had such an array that people used to drive by her house to see them, back when as many people as could fit into the family car went for a ride on Sunday afternoons--parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends and neighbors. And of course the children. I loved doing this as a child even though I was always stuck in the middle and didn't get to see much of anything. It was still an adventure and other people's flower gardens were high on the list of things to go and see.







And this is a patch of volunteer white violets that is bravely coming up through a crack in the patio. The original plants are from my late mother-in-law's garden as well. They will take over everything if you let them. I like them growing pot-less on the patio, though. 





This one, the "black iris," isn't a legacy flower. I bought it at a flea market a few years ago. It doesn't bloom every year, but as you can see, this is the year.


Pretty, aren't they?

WRITING (About) LIFE...

I've been told I need to blog more, and in that light, here's this:





During the past 36 hours, I boldly opened a window so Carl (he's my pre-owned, former military now writer cat) could have a new rampart from which to guard the castle walls and stop pestering, even though I know, in this old house, getting something to open doesn't necessarily mean you can get it to close--owners of old houses and ginger cats will understand this. So I couldn't close it. Carl was thrilled. Jumped into and out of the window all night long, because he was at Defcon 1 by this time. Yes, my sleep was broken, after which he trampled the pieces. 
But I'm getting ahead of myself. BEFORE I went to bed, I was watching BONEKICKERS via the Roku, and I suddenly got a dialogue box on the screen complete with red exclamation point telling me my device was overheating. Which scared the bejeebies out of me. So I dismantled the Roku and went online like it told me to. It said that my streaming stick was too close to something electronic and bade me fill out a form that included the serial number so I could receive a free HDMI extension cable and move it out of harm's way. The SN was a 12-digit number stamped on the back of the device, it said. Enter that on the form, it said. Well, I did, and the form wouldn't take it, no matter how may times I tried. It's hard to mess that up, when there is only one 12-digit number there, AND it was quite readable. Anyway, I eventually gave up because they obviously didn't mean it when they said "free HDMI extension cable."
THEN the washing machine royally died, screaming to the very end. Then there was the duel to the death with a camel cricket when it cornered me in the bathroom. Those things do not run away. They run toward, and I am not yet to the point where I can squash one with my bare feet.
The bottom line, dead or alive, the camel cricket is no longer among us, the window is still open, and the washing machine guy is lying on the floor in the utility room doing surgery on the Maytag. (Did you know "Maytag," as an entity,  is no more? It's now Whirlpool. The things one learns in the middle of chaos.) The Maytag has a new name, BTW. "Macbeth." After all that scene-chewing drama when his pump gave out yesterday, he deserves it.