Cathy Perkins's Blog, page 2
June 21, 2022
Scouting for Good Readsby Saralyn Richard One of my most...
Scouting for Good Reads
by Saralyn Richard
One of my most memorable activities from childhood was beinga part of the Girl Scouts. My Girl Scout troop was phenomenal. Our leaders,Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Martin, made sure every meeting was a learning experienceand a social experience worth our time and effort. We went on several trips,including one to the Alamo in San Antonio, the State Capitol in Austin, and toa dude ranch in New Braunfels. Many of the girls in our troop are still amongmy ...
Scouting for Good Readsby Saralyn Richard One of my mo...
Scouting for Good Reads
by Saralyn Richard
One of my most memorable activities from childhood was being a part of the Girl Scouts. My Girl Scout troop was phenomenal. Our leaders, Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Martin, made sure every meeting was a learning experience and a social experience worth our time and effort. We went on several trips, including one to the Alamo in San Antonio, the State Capitol in Austin, and to a dude ranch in New Braunfels. Many of the girls in our troop are still among my cl...
June 19, 2022
Celebrating the Third Virtual Mystery in the Midlands with a Matching Game
by Paula Gail Benson
Longing to attend a writing conference? Here’s one that costs only $8!
On Saturday, July 16, from 10:30 am to 3:15 pm ET, the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and the Palmetto Chapter of Sisters in Crime, are proud to present their third virtual Mystery in the Midlands.
Our wonderful participants include keynote David Heska Wanbli Weiden, who will be interviewed by Hank Phillippi Ryan. In addition, three panels will be moderated by Dana Kaye. The panelists are...
June 14, 2022
Getting Stronger
I lift weights. Twice a week my husband and I go to the gym. The nutritionist at the army health clinic told me about the weight training room. She said as we age it is important to do weight bearing exercises to keep our bones strong and joints limber. “Just go twice a week. Go in the middle of the day – there’s no one there at that time.”
Another year passed before I went. The catalyst was my annual cholesterol check. I begged for 6 months of diet and lifestyle changes...
June 13, 2022
How Do You Feel About Emojis?
by Gay Yellen
Once upon a time, I had a comfortably introverted life. That all changed in 2014, when my first book came out, and my publisher urged me to join the rest of the world on Facebook, Twitter, and other social platforms.
FacebookAt first, it was tough to emerge from my cocoon, but little by little, I was posting like a pro. I came to feel pretty comfortable about it, too, until last year, when I read an article in The Wall Street Journal about the generation gap in how people interpret ...
Request for a Time Management Intervention
by Donnell Ann Bell
Well, it’s happened. I survived my sixth book release. I wrote blogs, put out a newsletter, attended Facebook parties, attended a fantastic Zoom presentation with the Corrales Community Library (near Albuquerque), appeared on my local community radio program, worked on my own blog, and made some valuable and very sweet connections by doing so.
In between that, I went to the grocery store, paid bills, changed my sheets, vacuumed, and mopped my tile floor. (I live in a desert...
June 10, 2022
Oh Where, Oh Where has my launch gone? by Debra H. Goldstein
Oh Where, Oh Where has my launch gone? by Debra H. Goldstein June 28 is the release date from Kensington of my fifth Sarah Blair novel, Five Belles Too Many. As I write this blog, three days before it will appear on the Stiletto Gang blog, I have yet to confirm a physical launch location (which would be in mid-July). That’s unusual for me.
When One Taste Too Many, the first book in the series, was published, there was a table at Barnes & Noble at the Summit in Birmingham and not only did I hav...
June 8, 2022
The Parts of a Book
By Bethany Maines
Recently, we’ve added Harry Potter to our daughter’s bedtime story reading. Once we’ve completed a book, we watch the movie version. But then, of course, she wanted a wand and an owl. There’s not much I can do about the owl, but a kindly auntie did provide a wand for Christmas and a potions “class” with dry ice and tea that turns blue. (Butterfly Pea Blossom Tea if you’re interested, but be forewarned, don’t google the Latin name if you’re at all prone to laughing at dirt...
June 7, 2022
A Nod to Writers and Artists
By Kathryn Lane
In every novel of my Nikki Garcia mystery series, I’ve mentioned a writer or a visual artist whose work I admire. Since my mysteries are set in foreign countries, this detail adds a touch of that country’s culture.
Waking Up in Medellin takes place in Colombia and I wove in the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Laurette in Literature for One Hundred Years of Solitude, and the sculptures of Fernando Botero into the story.
Research on Fernando Botero's sculpture Danger in the ...
June 6, 2022
Sleuthing In Stilettos Has A Cover
Happy June! Can you believe we're six months into 2022? It feels like I blinked and the year was half over. Honestly, I hope the same happens for the next three months because I really dislike the hot, humid weather. I'm much more a fall kinda gal. :) But, the month I'm really looking forward to this year is December! That's when SLEUTHING IN STILETTOS releases!!! And I got the cover for the book the other day. I absolutely love it. It fits the story so well.
Writing this story was so much fun f...
