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November 26, 2017
Reuniting After a Lifetime
Welcome to Sunday Blog Share. All month long and through December, we’re focusing on books that have a holiday of spirit as part of the Holiday of Books promotion.
Today, we’re going to be talking about a couple torn apart by their differing views regarding their careers and reuniting many years later. Usually, when discussing this subject, the woman is the person wronged and the man went on to have the perfect family, a career people brag about, and all the material desires he’d always wanted. In this case, a woman makes a decision of career over family, over love, and leaves her good friend reeling from the rejection of his proposal.
Blurb
Can love be rekindled after a lifetime?
Mel dashes Joe’s hopes for marriage when she decides to pursue a career. Thirty years later, retired and without close family, she reunites with her first love.
Excerpt
Joe Stockton chided himself for picking this moment. Both he and the woman he loved, Mel Hoffman, had just come off a twelve-hour shift, preparing the F-16 jet fighter aircraft at Hahn Air Base in Germany for flight. Both were dog tired, ready for a hot cup of coffee and a tasty meal, and then to drop into bed until they had to report for duty again, about twelve hours from now.
Ah, quit being a coward. You love her. She loves you. Haven’t both of us said that many times since we got here?
They were stationed at one of the bases where the F-16 reigned supreme. Both of them were crew chiefs and expected to have a long and illustrious career. Although, if Joe had to admit it, Mel would do far better than he would. She had a certain drive to prove herself in this male-oriented world. Sure, he was good with a wrench, but she was better. And she knew how to deal with those at the top of the maintenance unit. Truth be told, he’d be happy to run a squadron as the NCOIC, but he could see Mel being someone who would be picked for all the prime positions at higher headquarters.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 22, 2017
Jekyll and Hyde
Welcome to wwwblogs. Today we’re going to be discussing the art of smiling and “stabbing” with the knife of indifference.
We’ve talked about how we must maintain an upbeat public appearance. It’s very important to maintain a façade when in public, no matter how badly we feel. I can’t count the number of times when locals have run into me when I’ve been running errands and carried on conversations about things I really don’t care about but I smile and nod, while in my head I’m creating a new scene I’ve been struggling with for days and wishing this person would just leave me alone so I can jot down notes and not forget the important parts.
This is where we as authors must become Jekyll and Hyde. Our evil twin is tormenting us to strike out, tell that person to get lost, or that they’re an idiot. Those words are bubbling up to our lips; the temptation to release them is nearly too strong to resist, especially if the scene we’re putting together in our head is pivotal and we’ve been sweating it for weeks. Yet, another little voice, one so small we almost don’t hear it is saying, “No. Don’t do it. Remember your public persona.”
Uh, yeah, I’ve told that little voice to get lost many times but it always hangs around, keeping me from making what could be a career ending comment.
Why do I do this?
Because the day I moved from writer seeking my first contract to published author, I realized that I was no longer what I craved most—an anonymous person in the crowd that no one would bother. I had become public property when I was outside my safe office and there was nothing I could do about that. My personal life was often fodder of conversations: “Does she say potato or puh-tato.” “She writes such beautiful books, but I bet she doesn’t have time to clean her house or go to her kids’ school events.” “Wish I could be her, touch her, live her life for just one day.”
First of all, the who potato puh-tato thing isn’t real as far as I’m concerned. Just to let you know, I adore potatoes, puh-tatoes. Any kind. My favorite version is baked, dripping with butter, sour cream, and chives (yes, I know, bad for the health but it’s one of my few vices and I don’t indulge often.).
Next, my house never suffers for my writing. Oh, I know. People will wonder how I do it, or did it when my children were in school. Let’s just say there was a lot of housecleaning going on before they left for school and after they went to bed. I’ve often been accused of being a multi-tasker. I am, proudly, and I’ve honed a certain schedule over the years, where I can take a break from writing to switch laundry loads and fold the newly dried one, or start a meal (have to adore crock pot cooking!), or even help a child with their homework.
Finally, my life is utterly boring. Seriously. Most people would be very much disillusioned to discover that little fact but it’s the truth. I don’t wine and dine with celebrities (Sam Elliott, Tom Selleck, and Mark Harmon are at the top of my list to meet and talk to—and they don’t even know that!). I am as ordinary as any other person, except my office is a small room in my house and I don’t have a set start and stop time for working.
Here is where the Jekyll and Hyde thing is most evident. I am an ordinary human being. Except that I’ve been interviewed in podcasts and on television. My books are available internationally, and I am an author who writes stories I make up in my head. Not a lot of people can do that well and stay sane, but I’m managing.
So, as authors, remember to leave Dr. Jekyll in the public view and keep Mr. Hyde hidden until you need him to appear to deal with a particularly difficult character in your book.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 21, 2017
Local Traditions
Welcome to Tuesday Blog Share. All month long and through December, we’re focusing on books that have a holiday of spirit as part of the Holiday of Books promotion.
Today, we’re going to be talking about being military members being stationed in areas far from home with very different traditions. Those who serve their country often find themselves stationed in areas that are far different from where they grew up. During their traditional holiday periods, they’re confused, a little wary of how to celebrate. Most want to cling to the familiar, but those who join in with the unfamiliar, embrace the traditions of the area where they are currently living, find they are learning so much more about their situation.
Blurb
Lynn and Deke participate in the local St. Nicholas Day celebration in the German village outside their Air Force Base. Each finds a new reason to enjoy the winter holidays.
Excerpt
Lynn Michaels sat at the window of her dormitory at Hahn AB in Germany. Her gaze focused on everything and nothing—the fat snowflakes so foreign to her, a young woman born and raised in Southern California, the distant memory of what would be happening in her home right at this minute, how she was a long way from home and would never return there. If she could help it.
She never believed that she would feel so lonely and lost when she left for her first overseas assignment. 1983 had been a whirlwind year. She’d completed basic training late in 1982 and been granted leave to spend the Christmas season at home, but this year, after she finished her advanced training, she had received orders to report to this base.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 20, 2017
Punctuation Frenzy
Welcome to Monday Blogs. Today, we’re going to concentrate on punctuation. You know, those very important commas, periods, exclamation points, question marks, colons, and semi-colons. They all have a place in our work but recently a trend has developed to leave off punctuation—puzzling, is the reader supposed to decide how you’re punctuating your sentence—or to use it either very sparingly or far too much, and you leave your reader confused.
Or an author may misuse punctuation, always ending dialogue with a comma, even if there isn’t a vocal tag after the comma and closing quote marks. They may separate items in a list with semi-colons instead of commas, when the semi-colon is only used to connect two independent clauses. Typically, you should use a colon before a listing of items, with commas separating those items. How about the author who sprinkles their work with question marks paired with exclamation points. Or they’ll use five or six exclamation points, because we are telling the reader they really have to get excited about this statement.
How do you avoid these pitfalls?
First, you need to learn the rules of punctuation. They can be a bit confusing, but once you take the time to figure them out, your book will read much better.
What are those rules?
First of all, ending sentences should only be with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. Unless that sentence is dialogue, and you’re adding a vocal tag to it.
Confused? Most people are at this point. Here is an example of properly ending sentences…
The dankness of the night wouldn’t stop her. She refused to let anyone keep her from enjoying her nightly walk.
That one was easy. Let’s look at dialogue…
“Get out of my way.” She walked around the creep. This is the proper way to show an action tag. Improperly would be if you did this: “Get out of my way,” she walked around the creep.
How about those mixes of exclamation points and question marks? Pretty tough to avoid that problem. We’re excited. We want our readers to be excited too…
“Are you kidding me?!” He shook his head.
This looks pretty neat. But it’s wrong. There’s no need for an exclamation point. From the wording of the sentence, the reader will understand the speaker’s emotions.
The recent trend I’ve seen of authors separating lists with semi-colons between each item instead of using commas has me shaking my head. It makes me wonder exactly what is being taught in English grammar classes. A sentence similar to this had an editor friend asking if we could ban semi-colons from books…
The list went on forever, doctor’s appointment; lab work; grocery shop; drop dog at vet; lunch with friend.
Very wrong, and unfortunately for the friend, she realized that we can’t ban semi-colons from books, but we can show the author how to correctly construct this sentence…
The list went on forever: doctor’s appointment, lab work, grocery shop, drop dog at vet, lunch with friend.
Other punctuation problems exist for authors and it is up to us to fix them before our book is published. Ideally, it’s up to us to fix them before we hire an editor or submit to a publisher. If you are uncertain exactly what to do, check out Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS). This is what most editors and publishers use for their main source of grammar questions.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 19, 2017
Diversity
Welcome to Sunday Blog Share. All month long and through December, we’re focusing on books that have a holiday of spirit as part of the Holiday of Books promotion.
Today, we’re going to be talking about diversity in relationships. Once upon a time, all around the world, couples often squashed their feelings for a person they were interested in if they weren’t the same race, religion, or social status. It was unheard of for them to follow those feelings. They faced at the least whispers about how wrong they were, or the worst condemnation from those they cared about.
The twenty-first century has seen more movement forward in people being able to be with the one they really love without a social stigma, but those relationships now owe a lot to the past. There were others who went before these new couples, fighting the hard fight, and enduring the stigma of being different. One might think that makes today’s relationships much easier to happen. One would be wrong. In every class of people, there are those who will continually put down a couple for their beliefs.
Blurb
Christmas was almost here.
Caryn O’Brien and Johnson Angel lost the music in their lives when circumstances tore them away from each other. Together, they were a talented team, but separate, all they had were empty spaces in their souls. It didn’t help that the gulf between them was being forced open even wider by the bigotry and anger that surrounded them.
They had no way of knowing that those very things, which drove them apart, would also bring them together.
Excerpt
Caryn O’Brien stood in front of the choir, at the front of her church. On Christmas Eve she would celebrate her twenty-third birthday the same way she had done it since she was seven—by singing a solo of the one holiday song that meant so much to her.She bowed her head forward, letting her copper colored hair conceal her face. It was better this way, so no one could see her excruciating pain. The source of said pain wasn’t visible. How does one show that their heart has shattered? How does a person get over the worst betrayal of their life? No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t bring her voice to the level of intensity required to make this song memorable.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 17, 2017
A Winter Holiday 2017
The winter holidays are fast approaching. Even the weather is cooperating, giving us cold days and nights, rain, sleet, snow, even icy roads. What better way to get into the spirit of the season than grabbing your very own copy of Solstice Publishing’s A Winter Holiday 2017, or one of the two standalone novellas: An Interrupted Holiday and Lost Soul Barren Holiday 1?
https://bookgoodies.com/a/B077J5FKJW
Text messages send Halia on a quest.
Can he capture wondrous enchantment?
An unusual stranger captivates Gina’s heart.
Time travel via Victorian mistletoe.
Will Sara Anne find a daddy by Christmas?
A rip-roaring ride through a Hawaiian Christmas.
Never Was Mrs. Claus Rocks!
What happened on your best New Year’s Eve?
Follow your heart, trust your instincts.
How does Emlyn Goode celebrate Christmas? Food, friends… and murder.
The incredible talents of Eddie Edwards, Leigh Podgorski, E.B. Sullivan, Debbie De Louise, Jeannie Sharpe, Justin Herzog, Gloria Weber, A.F. Weeks, A.A. Schenna, and Susan Lynn Solomon combine in this holiday anthology. Be prepared to experience the winter holidays as you never have before, with tales that will make you laugh, cry, and remember what the spirit of these holidays is all about.
https://youtu.be/y07ee7a5oXA
And what about those standalone novellas? The first is a winner from Donna Alice Patton, set in her favorite time, those exhilarating days of the Wild West.
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In the icy crevices of a blizzard and his heart - James' Montfort will learn that the invisible world is never too far away.
K.C. Sprayberry offers us her latest series of teens overcoming trouble and discovering that the winter holidays can be good with Lost Soul Barren Holiday 1.
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The neighborhood knew what Cody Allen Luther endured on a daily basis for five long years. Everyone except Brandy Mason turned their heads. After all, it was a parent’s right to discipline their child. On Christmas Eve, 1969, Cody finally can’t take the brutal abuse any longer, but not for himself—his mother turns her unreasonable anger on his younger stepsiblings and he makes a life changing decision, killing her instead of allowing her to keep hurting his family.
Only one person has ever understood the why Cody reacted as he did that Christmas Eve of 1969. Brandy Mason will do anything to protect Cody, even stand up against classmates willing to petition the governor to have Cody tried as an adult for murder once he is released from juvenile detention.
We at Solstice Publishing hope all of your holidays are wonderful and fun. If you’re stuck inside because of inclement weather, these stories will warm more than your heart.
November 15, 2017
Vices
Welcome to wwwblogs. Today, we’ll be discussing vices, as in your vices and how they can affect how your readers see you.
One thing we always, as authors, need to be wary of is projecting a persona that will turn off our readers. When in public or online, we have to be upbeat, smiling, apparently without a care in the world. Despite the fact that we’re human and given to faults, those who enjoy our books believe we are different. We must never display any kind of behavior they consider as less than perfect.
Trying to change their minds by continuing on with our habits will only cause these people to talk about how awful we are. They’ll tell everyone we can that we’re awful authors no one decent will want to associate with. They might even take to social media and plaster what they see as our imperfections for the public to acknowledge and decry. This will have a domino effect and could end up not just causing us sales of our current book but all future books.
The best advice an author can get from those who have traveled this rocky path is that you need to be perfect when you do a public appearance. If someone approaches you with an obvious chip on their shoulder while clutching your latest book, smile and ask if they’d like an autograph. Make animated but non-explosive conversation with this individual. Ask them if they can relate to the book or what have they heard. Engage them in a conversation that doesn’t touch on areas where they might rant. Above all, when speaking to this person, keep your tone light, do not acknowledge that you’ve noticed how they’re looking to pick a fight.
To our fans, we are not humans. We are far above being human. We are perfection. We don’t have bad days. We are always happy and upbeat. We can’t possibly need a break during a six hour long appearance to use the bathroom, or to grab a bite to eat, or even to take a walk and clear our minds. We are in public for one reason and one reason only—to give our fans a brief moment to sit among stars and be touched by “royalty.”
Therefore, if you smoke, lock up the lighter and pack until you’re far from the venue. If you drink, ignore the urge to have your favorite libation. If you are in a bad mood because of traffic, a fight with your significant other, or because you just found out that you lost someone close to you, clamp down on those feelings. For this brief moment, your only job is to be a bright spot in someone else’s life.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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November 14, 2017
Healing a Family
Welcome to Tuesday Blog Share, today we are talking about the holiday of spirit as part of the Holiday of Books promotion.
Today, we’re going to be talking about healing a family wracked by years of abuse. While this story has a military setting, this type of problem exists everywhere. Often, the family accepts the abuse as normal; for them, it is normal. Yet, once they are free of the abusive climate, they find themselves confused about how the world really works and take time to trust and perhaps rekindle old friendships.
Blurb
Riona’s life of self-doubt stranded her in an abusive marriage with four small children to raise. Her children and a successful career in the Air Force made her life bearable. She needed out—and Fate handed her a way.
Once, when she was younger, there was a man she thought good until he stood her up. She had no way of knowing that he had endured a bad marriage and a bitter divorce, leaving a teenaged daughter in the middle. He had never forgotten Riona.
Both their hearts were hurting. Fate would help them heal.
Excerpt
Hank Sanders sauntered through his house. Stubble on his chin gave him a good feeling when he rubbed it with his right hand. A cigarette dangled from the fingers of the left hand, the long ash tip scattering across what had been a pristine tile floor until that moment. Given that he wouldn’t stick around those stupid holy rollers any longer than he had to, he wore a pair of jeans that had worn nearly to the point of being obscene in certain areas. A checked flannel shirt with rolled up sleeves exposed the new tattoo he’d had done when he and some buds spent Halloween night in Landstuhl. Although it was not strictly within the damn codes the Air Force made everyone live by, he’d covered his, a growling bulldog with a spiked collar. Normally, his shirtsleeves were fastened tightly around his thick wrists, concealing what he knew could cause him issues with his uptight commander, a prick of a captain who was trying to get an assignment to the Pentagon.
Jerk won’t go anywhere except Turkey once I get my plan in motion.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
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Amazon Author Page
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November 13, 2017
Diving In To Promotion
Welcome to Monday Blogs. Today’s topic is all about diving into your promotion, and working that around both the new expansions on social media in addition to some restrictions that have many authors gnashing their teeth.
In the twenty-first century, social media promotion can make or break an author. Some authors still cling to the old idea that their publisher will do their promotion, or hire a company to do it for them. They ignore social media, thinking it will never brand their name or do them any good. Their book will often languish on Amazon while other authors are selling on a regular basis, and these people can’t figure out why that’s happening.
Those authors embracing social media are just as frustrated. Where once we were able to schedule or post as much as we wanted to on Facebook and Twitter, we’re being limited, having our accounts suspended or shut down. We are nothing if not determined to succeed in this endeavor and do our best to avoid paying for promotion while also getting the most exposure we can by seeking out other social media outlets.
Instagram is the new place for authors to be seen and to work with a new social media presence. Oh, we’re still working on Facebook and Twitter. No one who wants to succeed as an author now will ever ignore those social media giants, but we’re not looking to pay for promotion. Those few who have ventured into this option from Facebook and Twitter have been less than satisfied with the results.
We’re learning every day. This isn’t an isolated method of getting people to know about your books. We need teams, other groups of authors, to assist us. Together, we are learning how to overcome the issues presented by the changes in the social media giants and make them work for us.
For the new author staring this crazy maze in the eye and wondering how they’ll ever conquer its heights, all I can advise is to dive in. These shark infested waters can be tamed. It takes determination and as much willingness to put your heart into promotion, much the same as you did in writing your book, to succeed. For those who still swear the old ways work, good luck with that. Even authors popular since before the turn of the century have learned one thing about this brave new world.
To succeed as an author, you must have a social media presence, and you must use it wisely to have readers notice your books.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
Website
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Amazon Author Page
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November 12, 2017
Family Gathering
Welcome to Sunday Blog Share. All month long and through December, we’re focusing on books that have a holiday of spirit as part of the Holiday of Books promotion.
Today, we’re going to be talking about families getting together for the holidays. Not just the usual everyone shows up for a meal and gift exchange only to vanish once that is done. This is a real, the family spends days or weeks together, much as it was once done long before our modern world evolved into one where families share time on social media.
Blurb
Grace Winston yearns for one last family Christmas, but she has to convince her brothers and sisters it's worth their while to come home. Her reason for this is that her parents, while happy that she's been accepted at Oxford University in England, are pining away for their family to gather together. She manages to force her older brothers and sister to help out, to come home, but it's up to them to bring the other – a brother who attacked their father to get money to feed his drug habit, and a sister who recently gave up alcohol and is raising four children under the age of five without their daddies. The family does return home, and they surprise their parents, but Grace is soon wondering if this was really worth all the trouble she's gone through, when no one acknowledges her efforts to make this a Christmas to remember … until she receives an early gift that leaves her certain things will turn out all right.
Excerpt
Grace Winston had celebrated her eighteenth birthday a mere three weeks ago, the same day as Thanksgiving. There were no thanks in her house, no special foods prepared to celebrate her becoming an adult, nothing to mark the day as unique.
Her parents hadn't said "Happy Birthday" until it was time to go to bed. Even then, the acknowledgement had sounded more like "goodnight."
It's not Mama and Papa's fault. They can't help how sad they are. My brothers and sisters should have come like they said they would. They're not even making false promises anymore. All of them claim that they have other plans for Christmas, and we need to get over our selfish desire to have the family together.
About K.C. Sprayberry
Born and raised in Southern California’s Los Angeles basin, K.C. Sprayberry spent years traveling the United States and Europe while in the Air Force before settling in northwest Georgia. A new empty nester with her husband of more than twenty years, she spends her days figuring out new ways to torment her characters and coming up with innovative tales from the South and beyond.
She’s a multi-genre author who comes up with ideas from the strangest sources. Those who know her best will tell you that nothing is safe or sacred when she is observing real life. In fact, she considers any situation she witnesses as fair game when plotting a new story.
Website
Goodreads
Amazon Author Page
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Readers Gazette
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