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August 13, 2014
Video: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Cassie’s Pen Pals
I’m here to tell you about another old book I found with some hidden treasures inside. This is The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte.
I actually found this book in Payson, Arizona at a shop called Barn Door Books. The Luck of Roaring Camp is a story of gold-prospecting camp just eastof Sacramento in the 1800s. One night a baby boy is born to Cherokee Sal. As the story says, “Perhaps the less said of her the better. She was a coarse, and, it is to be feared, a very sinful woman.”
And I th...
Video: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Cassie’s Pen Pals
I’m here to tell you about another old book I found with some hidden treasures inside. This is The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte. I actually found this book in Payson, Arizona at a shop called Barn Door Books. The Luck of Roaring Camp is a story of gold-prospecting camp just eastof Sacramento […]
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Video: The Luck of Roaring Camp and Cassie’s Pen Pals
I’m here to tell you about another old book I found with some hidden treasures inside. This is The Luck of Roaring Camp by Bret Harte.
I actually found this book in Payson, Arizona at a shop called Barn Door Books. The Luck of Roaring Camp is a story of gold-prospecting camp just eastof Sacramento in the 1800s. One night a baby boy is born to Cherokee Sal. As the story says, “Perhaps the less said of her the better. She was a coarse, and, it is to be feared, a very sinful woman.”
And I think we...
August 11, 2014
Breaking out the pearls and tiaras
Coming out with your first book can be a scary and surreal time. Each day, I swing between thrilled and terrified at least 1400 times. Let’s just say my husband is a saint, and my dogs and cats are better than prozac. A few days ago, I found out I’m not alone in my dance […]
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August 4, 2014
The secret sketchbook of Betty Valentine
When I first go to a used bookstore, the first thing I do is find the oldest, gnarliest, most forgotten books I can find. And I open them up and look inside. Sometimes I find something unexpected. Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America is not something I would normally pick up. But when I looked […]
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The secret sketchbook of Betty Valentine
When I first go to a used bookstore, the first thing I do is find the oldest, gnarliest, most forgotten books I can find. And I open them up and look inside. Sometimes I find something unexpected.
Burke’s Speech on Conciliation with America is not something I would normally pick up. But when I looked inside, I found these secret drawingsby a girl named Betty Valentine. It looks like she used this book for school. But it was also something of sketch book for her. There are these drawings...
June 29, 2014
Hugo’s Cookbook: I-ate-too-much-last-night kale smoothie
About Hugo’s Cookbook Is there anything better than a simple dinner with friends?The Moroccan sand dabs with curry hollandaise sauce, the Chilean macaroni salad with papaya, the Thai coconut-encrusted pot roast. You know, the usual sort of thing. But on such evenings, it’s easy to get caught up in the good food and even better […]
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June 28, 2014
The book club of my dreams (and nightmares)
I started my first book club in 1991. I had a group of book nerd friends, and I’d heard about this new thing called a book club where we read the same book and got together to talk about it. Inside me, a mile long “Squeeeee!” unleashed itself. OK, I was a lot younger then and […]
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The book club of my dreams (and nightmares)
I started my first book club in 1991. I had a group of book nerd friends, and I’d heard about this new thing called a book club where we read the same book and got together to talk about it. Inside me, a mile long“Squeeeee!” unleashed itself. OK, I was a lot younger then and […]
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June 23, 2014
A few questions about The Moment of Everything
The awesome Ann Gelder asked me to be a part of a blog hop. So here’s my answer to a set of questions about my novel. 1. What is the name of your character? Is s/he fictional or a historic person? The Moment of Everything is written in the first person from the perspective of […]
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