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Snippet Sunday - My WIP "Auf Wiederseh'n" 9/2/14

Welcome to Snippet Sunday ! The story so far is, Sadie, born and raised in Australia, found her grandma's diary after her mother's passing. Intrigued by the diary and her mother's German background, she's on her way to Germany to meet her family over there. 



The nice flight attendant gets me something to drink and a snack as I try to get the hang of reading the old German again. As I grab the water I glance past the lady next to me and see the guy acro...

Snippet Sunday - My WIP "Auf Wiederseh'n"

Welcome to Snippet Sunday ! The story so far is, Sadie, born and raised in Australia, found her grandma's diary after her mother's passing. Intrigued by the diary and her mother's German background, she's on her way to Germany to meet her family over there. 



The nice flight attendant gets me something to drink and a snack as I try to get the hang of reading the old German again. As I grab the water I glance past the lady next to me and see the guy acro...

May I introduce: Claire Fullerton "A Portal in Time"

 A Portal in TimeBy Claire Fullerton  

I'm very pleased to have Claire on my blog today. Her current novel is set in the wonderful town of Carmel in California - a must-see-place in the US according to my best friend.1 –  What draws you to Carmel? Carmel sits like a Cotswold village on the hauntingly beautiful, Monterey Peninsula in northern California. Although it is known for its unique facets of architecture throughout the town as well as in the residential are...

Tuesday Tales - FIELD

.•*¨*•♫    It's time for Tuesday  Tales    •*¨*•♫♪
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Welcome back to TT. I'm still writing the baseball player story .... and this week's Tuesday Tales prompt is FIELD.
  
Enjoy - and feel free to leave a comment. And don't forget to click the link below to go back to the main Tuesday Tale site for more stories by very talented authors.
  Oliver checked his messages and a grin tugged at the corner of his mouth. She just couldn’t resist him.
He tur...

Snippet Sunday - "Auf Wiederseh'n" ( #SnipSun )

Welcome to Snippet Sunday ! The story so far is, Sadie, born and raised in Australia, found her grandma's diary after her mother's passing. Intrigued by the diary and her mother's German background, she's on her way to Germany to meet her family over there.  

Chapter One ... cont'd



In all fairness, flying isn’t all what it’s cracked up to be. We’re not even half way and my bum’s sore, my head aches and I’m bored out of my brains. Even the latest bl...

Review: Rachel Gibson "Simply Irresistible"

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

ISBN:  9780380790074

My rating: 3/5

Georgeanne Howard, charm school graduate and Southern belle extraordinaire, leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she just can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. At the height of his hockey career, this bad boy isn't looking to be anybody's s...

May I introduce: Heather Gray "Just Dessert"

  Just DessertBy Heather Gray   I've got another great author, and may I say friend, visiting my blog. Heather Gray is has been busy releasing one book after the other within the last twelve months, but she's here today talking about "Just Dessert"
 1 – Where did you get the idea for “Just dessert” ?Just Dessert is the second book in my Ladies of Larkspur series.  Mary, the heroine, has a cameo appearance in the first book, Mail Order Man.  The goal of t...

Release Day for "More Beginnings" (Beginnings #2)

  
It's release day for
More Beginnings
 "More Beginnings" is the second book in the Beginnings series, which is very close to my heart. One reason is, that I strongly believe in Beginnings, no doubt there have been many in my life, but over the last 18 months I've fallen in love with the Levesque girls and their friends - so much so that I'm currently writing book #3 and have just jotted down ideas for #4. Watch this space. This is what "More Beginnings" is about:
It’s been...

#SnippetSunday 26/01/2014 - My WIP "Auf Wiederseh'n"

 Welcome to Snippet Sunday !   Happy Australia Day !!   

Chapter One ... cont'd




Mum was born in Germany, but left in her twenties and came to Australia. Quite a journey those days, and she’d told me a lot about it. Kind of scary actually to just leave everything behind. I mean, after all there was no internet or the chance to quickly call home to say Hey everyone I’ve arrived and settled in this super tiny town of Beauty Creek. No those days you had to...

Review: Janet Evanovich "Takedown Twenty"

Publisher: Bantam

ISBN: 9780345542885

My rating: 3/5


New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore “Uncle Sunny” Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it’s up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in—not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in th...