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#SCENTsational Saturdays- Through the Years- Love's Baby Soft

I'd swear this was one of the very first perfumes my parents gave me for Christmas as I was approaching adulthood. Caught somewhere in the middle of being a child and a grown woman, I supposed loves is a very good "transitional" perfume. I haven't smelled it in a while, but I'm tempted to get a bottle of it, just as I did for the can of Skin Musk, which I've really been enjoying. Funny how taking a trip down memory lane is a wonderful reminder of who we were before we became who we are.

This d...

All Bets Are On Anthology featuring Remember My Love from @turquoisemorn @FictionWitches #TMPress

$2.99 on Kindle(click image above to purchase on Amazon)
Blurb:
Some might say placing (and winning!) a win, place and show bet—a trifecta—is the triple threat of racing, and to the winner goes the spoils. In this Kentucky Derby themed short story collection, All Bets Are On! the trifecta may include romance, mystery and even murder! We’re betting you’ll find a story or two to savor as you sip a mint julep, study the daily racing form, and pick out your Derby hat. We hope you enjoy.

Remember My...

#ThursdayswithTaryn, Guest #Author C.C. Marks @CCMarksWrites author of Edge of Mercy

Thursdays with Taryn C.C. Marks Please help me welcome my fellow KY author (who is also an Indie) C.C. Marks, author of The Mercy Series . She just recently released the first book in the series- Edge of Mercy and is currently working on the next one (which I'm eager to get my hands on). I had a chance to sit down and read Edge of Mercy the weekend before last and all I can say is that it pulled me in from the start.
I'd never really given much thought to what dystopian meant before, but as I rea...

#Writerly Wednesday- Are You "Listening" @bentaylorHQ New #Album #music #writing

Listening
(image used with permission)
My introduction to Ben Taylor's music was a smooth little melody called "Island" from his 2002 album, Famous Among the Barns . Based on that singular song, I invested in the entire album and found new hidden gems that rippled through my soul and spoke to me.
Second to writing, music is one of my other loves. I can't sing any better than the alley cat on the fence post under the full moon, howling and mewling for attention, but the poetry of song lyrics is w...

#TuesdayswithTaryn- Help welcome #STHRN #Author @melindamcguire

  Tuesdays with Taryn Melinda McGuire
Thanks so much for joining me today, Melinda, and for answering these questions! It's wonderful to get to know more about you and I'm totally intrigued by Nelson and Cora being it's set here in my home state of Kentucky!
What book(s) most influenced you as a writer? William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Stephen King’s On Writing
What book do you read over and over again? There are a few that I read again and again - To Kill a Mockingbird, Capote’s In C...

#MemoryLane Mondays~ Country Roads, Take Me Home...

To the place that I belong... Saturday afternoon, after I fixed homemade pizza while my husband mowed the lawn, we ate lunch and then headed out to go do a little shopping at the Mennonite Grocery not far from where we live. They have lots of fresh fruits and vegetables but also local honey and sorghum, homemade jams and jellies, cookies and breads and fudge.

I only needed tomatoes (don't even get me started on how awful store-bought ones taste to me- garbage, blech!) but we were having tacos a...

#sixsunday Six Sentence Sunday- Led Astray

 Welcome Sixers! Happy Sunday to you. Today we find Derrek thinking about his luck of meeting Jasmine through her actress sister Juniper.

When Juniper told him about her designer and gave him the card, he couldn’t have been happier. Her home was welcoming, comfortable and casual. It didn’t hurt he trusted Juniper’s opinion and knew she wouldn’t lead him astray. Of course, he hadn’t bargained for meeting the beautiful younger sister of his friend. I would let Jasmine lead me astray. Derrek n...

#SCENTsational Saturdays- Dry Hair & Scalp Needs Moisture

A while back I posted about how every shampoo and conditioner I use breaks my scalp out and I couldn't seem to find a combination that worked and yet still made me feel "like the heroine" of my love story. Well, I think I've discovered the secret.

For years, I've had very think, coarse, oily hair, so I normally bought shampoo for normal to oily hair types. That's all well and good, but I do believe that as we age, things about us must age and change as well. My hair has, as I've discovered. Ye...

Friday Spotlight- My #Review of South of Bixby Bridge by @WinfieldRyan

(me with my autographed print copy of SOBB, along with a signed photo)     
Blurb:
Fresh out of drug rehab, an ambitious, young stockbroker struggles thrugh the holidays with much more than sobriety when he is seduced into a high-finance game of sex, deception, and blackmail by a charming, sadistic San Francisco hedge-fund onwner and his intoxicating wife.
 Warning: This novel is an unfiltered account of a young man's struggle to overcome addictions and it includes some g...

#ThursdayswithTaryn @DianeIStrong

 
Impromptu Thursdays with Taryn  with Diane Strong
It's my pleasure to guest a fellow KY Indie Writer, Diane Strong, who writes The Running Suspense Series . If you like Stephen King style suspense, you'll like these.
What book(s) most influenced you as a writer? I loved The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evens is the one that comes to mind.  I was living in Montana when the book was published so I knew all the places he was talking about.  I am a recovering horse-person so it...