Layce Gardner's Blog, page 13

More Than a Kiss Audio Snippet

Hey, y’all! Just wanted to announce that I’m doing some readings of our books over on Soundcloud. the first reading I’ve done is from “More Than a Kiss.” (12 minutes!) It won’t be long before I’ll be reading from our next book “Crazy Little Thing” and my YA novel “Once Upon a Time Travel.”

My wife and writing partner, Saxon Bennett, makes a guest audio appearance also!

If you join up with Soundcloud (it’s free), give my follow button a push and you won’t miss out on any of my upcoming audios. A...

Owl Jolson – I Love to Singa

Remember when you were a kid and you’d wake up on Saturday and Sunday mornings, run to the TV and blissfully watch hours of cartoons before your parents woke up?

In memory of the child in all of us, here’s my daughter’s favorite cartoon: Owl Jolson “I Love to Singa.” (Yeah, she’s old school.)



Watch, enjoy, start your morning with a laugh!

Doy you have a favorite cartoon or funny video? Tell me about it in the comments section below. Maybe I can find it and share it next Sunday!

Making the world a...

French Benefits

My daughter Emma and I always have the best discussions as I drive her to school. Today she started the conversation by saying:

Emma: I wish I could wear my Halloween costume the entire month of October. Every day.

(Here’s a photo of Emma relaxing after school. Playing a video game in her Halloween costume.

BTW, this photo was taken in April)

Layce: Well, if you grow up to be self-employed like me you can wear your costume every day.

Emma: Yeah, I guess being a writer has its French benefits.

Layc...

Pardon My Blooper!

When I was a kid I had a record album (remember those?)calledPardon My Blooper!It was a compilation of famous bloopers from TV shows.

The record had that one famous line from The Newlywed Game. You know the one where Bob Eubanks asked the question “Where’s the strangest place you ever made whoopee?” and the man answered, “In the butt, Bob, in the butt.”

There was another scene on the album from Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show. Zsa Zsa Gabor was his guest and she brought her pet cat on the show wi...

Happiness is…

…Reading a funny book!

Crazy Little Thing

a tour de farce

Ollie and Claire fell head over heels in love, drove to Iowa and got married. One year later they realized they’d made a big mistake. But in order to get divorced they have to drive back to Iowa and live together for three months before the judge will grant them a divorce. Can Ollie and Claire fall back in love? Can their love survive a divorce?

Join Ollie and Claire as they teeter between happily ever after and happily never after ­­- alo...

Crazy Little Thing Release!

Crazy Little Thing

a tour de farce

Ollie and Claire fell head over heels in love, drove to Iowa and got married. One year later they realized they’d made a big mistake. But in order to get divorced they have to drive back to Iowa and live together for three months before the judge will grant them a divorce. Can Ollie and Claire fall back in love? Can their love survive a divorce?

Join Ollie and Claire as they teeter between happily ever after and happily never after ­­- along with a zany cast of...

Alice’s Brownies

It was my 40th birthday. I had to work all day at some apartments I owned. I push mowed the entire acre grounds and then painted number four’s nicotine-stained living room walls. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that being a landlord is glamorous. Not even if that someone is Suze Orman.

But I digress. Like I said it was my birthday and I was working and I was sweaty and stinky and cranky. When I got home there was a cake pan on my porch swing with a note that read simply, “Enjoy!” I looked in th...

Killer Bathroom

I talked to my mother this morning at 9 a.m. This was unusual for two reasons. First, because she knows I write all morning and therefore doesn’t call me until the afternoon and secondly, because I write all morning and don’t pick up the phone even if she does call.

But today I did pick it up. And our conversation went like this:

Me: Hi, Mom.

Mom: Hi, Daughter.

Me: What’s up?

Mom: Well, I was wondering what you were doing?

Me: Writing.

(Long pause.)

Me: What’re you doing?

Mom: Well, what are your plan...

The Best Things In Life Are Free

Confession time. I have this weird thing where I don’t like to pay admission prices. I mean, I’ll pay to see a movie, but I balk at paying to go into a historic monument or a national park or look at a giant ball of twine or whatever.

Saxon makes fun of me. I think she secretly agrees with me on the whole thing, but likes to blame the cheapness on me. I am not cheap. I am frugal. There’s a difference.

There’s an old civil war fort near here. It’s in the town of Ft. Gibson. And, yes, the name of...

Revenge of the Mustache

Mustaches are all the rage right now. It doesn’t make sense to me. I mean, why is it cool to have fake mustaches plastered everywhere – pencil toppers, bumper stickers, notebooks, T-shirts – but it’s not cool to have a real one under your nose?

I have a mustache. A real one. Under my nose. I’ve had it since I hit puberty. In reality it was blondish and peach fuzzy. In my mind, it was Hitler-esque. And there was no way to hide it. I tried growing out my bangs, but I looked like Cousin It. So I...