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Mid-Week Flash Challenge – Week 9

Joining once again in the the Mid-Week Flash Fiction Challenge. Hopefully you enjoy this. I know I’m enjoying participating. And if you don’t enjoy it, blame Miranda Kate, because she started it, lol.

The rules and the challenge are HERE on Miranda Kate’s blog.  As always, feel free join in, the more the merrier.

Here is the inspirational photo she picked this week. And HERE is the link to her Mid-Week Flash.

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Reaper

 

My eyes scanned the remains of buildings and homes strewn about. Three m...

Bound Books Get a Face lift

All of my published books are in the process of getting a face lift and the Bound books are in line to be done first. The interiors are being worked on now, new content is being added to Bound by Time, and both books already have beautiful new covers created by Katie Jennings. I am truly thrilled with these covers. It’s the first time I’ve actually been happy with them and I would like to spread that happiness around. So here is my cover reveal for the Bound books.

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Midweek Flash from my good friend Stacy Bennett

As I read the other stories this week, I realized that I too was thinking of aggression and revenge. I would have written about hunters and death. But I looked again at the picture and thought of how beautiful this creature was. Why couldn’t this be about love? Again the rules and the challenge are…

via MidWeek Flash – Summoning the Muse — Stacy Bennett

MidWeek Flash Fiction (week 8) – The Successor

There is a flash fiction challenge going on and I’ve decided to join in. A picture is posted for inspiration and then writers take it from there. This is the first time I’ve participated, I’m usually far too long winded (or is it long written?) to write flash fiction. But as I stared into the eyes in the picture, I knew exactly who she was to me and what story I needed to tell.

The rules and the challenge are HERE on Miranda Kate’s blog.  Feel free join in, the more the merrier.

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The Successo...

Bees and Other Things

I meant to do a blog post a few days ago, but life happened.

Or rather spring happened, or continues to happen, or whatever. I should probably get more sleep.

The garden is in now. 30 tomato plants of various types, 41 pepper plants (mostly different types of sweet bells but also some hot peppers), in addition to cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, beets, radishes, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuce.

Because we are in west central Kansas, summers can be rather dry, windy, and hot, and usu...

Unveiled on Sale for .99!

Here’s your chance to grab my newest release for only .99! CLICK HERE to grab it off Amazon.

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It’s spring, the garden is planted, the baby chickens have all graduated to the big hen house, the two milk goats are giving nearly three gallons a day, cheese making is in full swing, herb bed is refreshed and a few new herbs added, so I figured, why not celebrate the new season by offering a sale on my newest book.

The sale run from today, April 14th, thru April 21st.

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Rowen watched my shi...

When Is Your Book New Adult, And When Is It Young Adult?

I wrote this a while back for another blog and thought I would put it here too.

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I love the YA and NA genres. For those that don’t know, YA = Young Adult. NA = New Adult. NA is a fairly new genre and there are a lot of places where the two overlap. And this was something I struggled with for my newest book. The main genre is Paranormal Romance. When it came to a secondary though, which one was it? It seemed to walk the line between NA and YA, kind of a cross over. I began marketing it as a YA...

Is it YA or NA?

I guest blogged on author Rebecca Fyfe’s blog today about how to tell the different between YA and NA.

I love the YA and NA genres. For those that don’t know, YA = Young Adult. NA = New Adult. NA is a fairly new genre and there are a lot of places where the two overlap. And this was something I struggled with for my newest book. The main genre is Paranormal Romance. When it came to a secondary though, which one was it? It seemed to walk the line between NA and YA, kind of a cross over. I bega...

Busy Spring!

Spring has sprung at our place! Things have been pretty busy around here since the beginning March. My middle son turned 16 (where did the time go?) on the first. Inara kidded twin bucklings on the second. So of course bottle feeding began. Kaylee kidded twin bucklings on the 7th in a rather difficult delivery that had me struggling to get the first kid positioned right so he could come out.

All four together
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The baby chickens arrived in the mail two days later.

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Juggling milk times, bottle...

Fried Mushrooms

This recipe was requested after I posted the pic of them on Facebook.

Fried mushrooms are an often requested treat here at my house. Once upon a time, many moons ago, I could find good, already breaded mushrooms in the freezer section of the grocery store. Alas, that was not to continue. So, what to do when one of your favored snacks can no longer be found in the store, and it’s too expensive and too long a drive to go find them at a restaurant? Learn to make them yourself. So, that’s what I...