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Spring Cleaning.

Pay attention readers. This involves you!

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Happy birthday to Tom Stronach over in Wessex.

Happy Mother’s Day to all my mother-ish friends.

If you ain’t watchin’ Orphan Black you’re crazy. Saturday’s episode, Governed As...

Happy Mother’s Day!

To my mom and all my lovely friends with children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, Happy Mother’s Day!

From my amazing older daughter!

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Winnerland.

Still FREE right here: Winnerland

Feel free to peek behind the scenes. The book merits its own page. Here’s the direct link. It’s up in my header, along with all my other tsastkis.

Be patient. I’ll find other things to talk about eventually. Smiley Face…

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Unbridled (Cowboy Poetry Press Anthology, Volume I)

Unbridled (Cowboy Poetry Press Anthology)

One of my stories from ages ago- Natural Born Horsewoman – is included in this wonderful anthology highlighting stories, poetry, art…

This is great stuff. Not your usual read. Right now it’s out in print but the price is right for such a variety of entertaining creative reads. Here ya go… Unbridled

The truth is, the more I write the more I rediscover my roots, and my roots grow from literary fiction and poetry.

It feels dang good to come back home.

I will...

Winnerland, by J.R. Barrett– FREE!

To thank ya’ll for your support, my new YA, Winnerland, will be FREE on Amazon for the rest of the week.

Here. It. Is. Winnerland, by J.R. Barrett

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Winnerland is here.

Fini! My first ever work of Young Adult Literature. Be warned– mature themes. Or as J.W. Manus says– “I should hope so. I’d hate to read immature themes.”

Look up at my header – the book has its own page.

Going once! Going twice! Only 99 cents! Buy Link: Winnerland, by J.R. Barrett

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Time to Reboot.

When I finish a book I feel drained. Empty.

Climbing Mealisval on the Outer Hebrides. I’m in front. I’d like to go back right about now.

I have ten days all to myself.

I intend to do some much needed spring cleaning and reorganizing.

And it’s time to add some summer veggies to the garden. Flower bowls too.

And so I will reboot.

And write again.

***Hey, check in tomorrow. My new book may be available on Amazon.

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robin

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Me Happy! Vikings and Orphan Black!

Why would I not be happy? I have Vikings and Orphan Blackto keep me happy. And truth be told… Game of Thrones wasn’t half-bad last week, now that Joffrey is gone for good. If I’d been forced to sit through his ass-holiness for one more episode I might have rammed a chopstick through my ear.

But dang! I’m so sad!!! Only one more episode of Vikingsremains this season, a season which has been genius, by the way. Big boy Bjorn, son of Ragnar Lothbrok, rocks the house.

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