Cathy Lamb's Blog, page 25
December 16, 2018
Need A Gift For Your Best Friend?
Do you need a book to give to your best friend?
A short summary of My Very Best Friend:
An old stone cottage in Scotland.
An overgrown garden, a man in a kilt.
Lingerie bike riding at midnight. Tea and crumpets.
Two best friends.
One is missing.
December 10, 2018
Crazy Elf Is Here Again
Do not tell Innocent Husband, but I am already planning what dessert to bake so that I can win our annual Lamb Fam Dessert Bake Off.
This is a crazy elf sort of thing to do, but plans must be made so Mrs. Cathy Claus can win.
(Cue evil laughter, please.)
How Well Do You Know Your Husband?
Books make great gifts for the holidays!
A short and sweet little summary for the elves on your list:
Natalie Shelton thought she knew her husband.
She was wrong.
December 9, 2018
Reading Your Way Through The Holidays
Need a book to get you through the holidays?
The first few lines of each…
What I Remember Most: I hear his voice, then hers. I can’t find them in the darkness. I can’t see them through the trees. I don’t understand what’s going on, but their horror, their panic, reaches me, throttles me. They scream the same thing: Run, Grenadine, run!
No Place I’d Rather Be: November, 1945. Kalulell, Montana.
Her hands shook as she held the cookbook. It was old, the leather cover cracked, the pages blackened by fire around the edges. Blood stains were splattered on more than one recipe, words smeared by tears and tea on others…the recipes within it had been handed down through five generations of women, starting with her great-great-great grandmother. They were written in four languages, across three countries.
The Language of Sisters: I was talented at pick pocketing. I knew how to slip my fingers in, soft and smooth, like moving silk. I was lightning quick, a sleight of hand, a twist of the wrist. I was adept at disappearing, at hiding, at waiting, until it was safe to run, to escape. I was a whisper, drifting smoke, a breeze.
December 4, 2018
Best To Read This Book With Cake
Six generations of women.
Four countries, four languages.
One mystery.
No Place I’d Rather Be is on sale on Amazon for less than ten bucks. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2Q59G8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect…
If you like reading about chefs making delicious food…and you’d like to spend the holidays in Montana…and you like a little history in your books and a little romance, funny characters and real life, you might like this one.
Best to read with cake.
November 26, 2018
Super Cheap Christmas Stories
Need a few Christmas stories to read with your hot chocolate/wine/beer/rum?
These will help you block out your in-laws if you need to, I promise.
All are on sale…super cheap.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
November 20, 2018
Props, Presentations, And Being A Cool Cat
Scared to death to make a speech?
Would you rather wrestle an alligator?
Wander around in the dessert with no wine or water?
Live in Antarctica in a tent?
Take a look at this article I wrote for Writers In The Storm.
November 14, 2018
A Twisty, Quirky Sense of Humor
These are the strips of paper that I had Innocent Husband read aloud last night, one at a time, when I spoke at Powell’s Books.
These are the things I was thinking of when trying to figure out the plot for The Man She Married last year.
He had no idea he was coming up to speak, and that is where my twisty/quirky sense of humor comes in…
November 12, 2018
Cake Bribe. I’ll Be At Powell’s On Tuesday Night
What are your plans for Tuesday night, November 13th?
I’ll be at Powell’s Books in Cedar Hills in Beaverton talking about my new book The Man She Married.
7:00.
And yes, we’re serving cake. Chocolate, if you must know. And maybe some cookies….
November 11, 2018
Gone Girl, The Man She Married, And A Miracle
I never make this kind of list.
Book Bub has named “The Man She Married” as one of the “best psychological thriller books of the fall.”
If you like Gone Girl, they say, you might like The Man She Married.
Well, I liked Gone Girl, so I’ll take this! Anyone want a thriller/women’s fiction/love story?
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