Curtiss Ann Matlock's Blog, page 36
May 5, 2013
Love In A Small Town
Love in a Small Town is a 99¢ Special on Amazon Kindle!
Everyday people with ordinary lives fill the pages in a Matlock novel but the tension, emotion, humor, and frustration come through loud and clear. And she shows us in each story how love is a treasure, sometimes throwing in just a touch of magic to remind us of the serendipity in everyday life. ~Amazon review
Mollie and Tommie Lee have been married for twenty-five years. They grew up in Valentine, Oklahoma, and were sweethearts from the g...
May 1, 2013
GOD WINKS
Reblogged from The Alzheimer Roller Coaster:
One of my daughters has always used the term, “God Winks,” whenever something appeared to be a coincidence. There are no coincidences,’ they are little nods of approval from God, but you have to be open minded and have an open heart to see them.
Today was a beautiful breezy, sunny day. A perfect day for pushing a wheel chair around the grounds of the memory care unit, for sitting on the patio and chatting.
Dear friends, I ha...
April 26, 2013
The Loves of Ruby Dee is on 99¢ Special This Week!
Three books over the following three weeks before Mother’s Day to be offered at the special price only on Kindle. Watch for them!
A wonderful antidote to glitz romance. Ruby Dee is so sweet, so loving, so wise, that you know she’ll get it right in the end, and you stay with her all the way to make sure she does.” ~Detroit Free Press, on The Loves of Ruby Dee.
From the Author’s Note in The Loves of Ruby Dee:
The stories I write spring from my...
April 20, 2013
If Wishes Were Horses
“It was not so much her husband dying in another woman’s bed that had sent her into shock, but his dying at all. Roy had been only thirty-five years old, and while he had been in many a woman’s bed, he had never died on her before.”
With comic invention and warm tenderness, Matlock brings a time and place to life: windswept Oklahoma of the 1950s, prohibition, bush-track horse racing–and a man and woman who discover hope in new beg...
April 15, 2013
The Gardens in Springtime–Garden Bloggers Bloom Day!
Spring has come to South Alabama, and I plunge into a sort of gluttony, grasping far more than I can afford in time and energy to plant and transfer and tend, a lot of triage gardening, and the forced practice of balance. My method is to work outside until I cannot stand it anymore and have to take time to write and read, and when things get really out of control in the kitchen, I clean. I’ve actually picked up hens and put them in a few garden spots to weed for me. They do a great, if carele...
April 6, 2013
Indie Publishing PS
“I found success because I wrote for the love of writing.” ~Hugh Howey, author of Wool.
Check out Hugh Howey’s stellar article: Self-publishing is the future–and great for writers.
When I read it, I suddenly heard the old gospel song:
The gospel train is a comin`
I hear it yes at hand
I hear the car was movin
And a rumblin` through the land
Oh get on board, get on board, get on board
There`s room for many a more…
Filed under: Books, eBook, Encouragement, Indie-publishing, writers, writing, Writin...
April 5, 2013
The Writer’s Quotation Book
I thought I’d share with you from time to time books that I love, and that you might, too. The idea came to me this morning, when, finding myself in something of a poor mood, I looked around for a book to lift my spirits. I don’t have to look far. I sit surrounded by books. I have a sort of nest in the dormer of my office and books are beside, behind, surrounding me on the floor.
I spied an old favored paperback of writer quotations– The Writer’s Quotation Book, James Charlton, editor, third e...
March 31, 2013
Happy Easter!
I was walking around the back of the azalea bushes, and was surprised to see these. Ruby azalea blooms, stretching with determination toward the sunlight. Azalea branches were poking across them, as if in equal determination to hold them back. I cut away the branches.
This morning I ran out to see if the amaryllis in the azaleas had bloomed. They hadn’t, but, get this, on my way back to the house, I happened to glance over and see this in the shade of the pecan tree:
Happy Easter, dear friends....
March 18, 2013
It is Called Indie Publishing
My friend has written a book about her experience of going through Alzheimer Disease with a loved one. She expressed her quandary in choosing how to get the book published. She said, in so many words, that she was impatient to spend the time it took to go through the process of finding a publisher who might like what she has to offer, but that others in her writing circle had, “planted seeds of doubt thatI wasn’t being “professional” by self publishing.”
Well, honey, first off, self-publishing...
March 12, 2013
Haywireflooey in Chickland
I am grateful beyond measure for last year’s wonderful and easy first experience in raising spring chicks. Yes, I had a bit of a blip with Princess Puny last year, but she soon recovered and is now a hearty girl who gives us an egg quite often every day. I had thought starting this year’s spring chicks would be equally as joyful and successful. Did I get a surprise!
This year’s effort at raising chicks has gone haywireflooey. I have lost one chick–she didn’t wander off, she died–and the two re...
