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Jennifer Skutelsky - Guest Author

Please welcome Jennifer Skutelsky today. Jennifer is the award-winning author of Tin Can Shrapnel and Grave of Hummingbirds. A Kindle Scout winner in February, 2015, Grave of Hummingbirds will be launched by Amazon’s Little A in January, 2016.
You have an all-expense-paid long weekend to spend with three guests. The Starship Enterprise has agreed to beam you to the place of your choosing, so travel time is not a consideration. Who are your guests (and why) and where are you staying (and why)?
I...

Tricia Hendricks - Guest Author

Please welcome fellow Kindle Scout winner Tricia Hendricks to answer ten questions today. She describes herself as quiet, thoughtful, passionate, impulsive, and spontaneous. Her writing is entertaining, accessible, humorous, character-centric, and fun. Here are her other chosen questions and answers.
Describe your most productive writing venue. What makes it best for you?
I haven't tried too many venues, honestly. I either write with my laptop on my lap, sitting on the sofa in the living room,...

Cindy Blackburn - Guest Author

Please welcome fellow Kindle Scout winner Cindy Blackburn to the blog today. She describes herself as hard-working, an introvert, energetic, a klutz, and a cat-lover. Her writing is funny, cozy, lighthearted, feel-good, and screwball. Let’s see which questions she chose and how she answered them.
You have a table for four at your favorite restaurant and can invite any three people, living, dead or fictional. Who are your guests (and why) and where are you eating (and why)?
We’d eat in my favori...

Rachelle Paige - Guest Aurhor

Please join me in welcoming author Rachelle Paige, a fellow Kindle Scout winner, to 10 questions and answers. She describes herself as a wife, mother, daydreamer, friend and traveler, Her writing involves small town, home, heart. romance and is flirty. Without further ado, here’s Rachelle.
You have a table for four at your favorite restaurant and can invite any three people, living, dead or fictional. Who are your guests (and why) and where are you eating (and why)?
If I could invite any three...

Donald Trump’s War on Muslims

Taken from DonaldJTrump.comFirst they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
~ Pastor Martin Niemöller
Donald Trump is not the United States of America’s version of Adolf Hitler. However, Hitler and his propaganda mini...

Vickie Fee - Guest Author

Please welcome Vickie Fee to our Guest Author questions and answers. Vicki is not only a fellow member of the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime, she is a fellow Yooper (person who lives in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan). Vickie says of herself that she is kind, funny, awkward, smart and caffeinated. Her writing is authentic, Southern, humorous, cozy and readable. It’s about this time of year that she probably wishes her location were Southern as well. Here are her choice questions and answe...

Amber Foxx - Guest Author

Please welcome fellow Sister in Crime Guppy Chapter member Amber Foxx to the blog today. She describes herself in alliterative style as a fun-loving, free spirit, who is flexible and funny. Her writing is unconventional, character-driven, non-violent, and suspenseful. Here are her answers to her chosen questions.
Describe your most productive writing venue. What makes it best for you?
The kitchen table when I’m in New Mexico for the summer. The view out the window is inspiring, since it’s the s...

DV Berkom - Guest Author

Please welcome guest author DV Berkom to our question and answer session today. She’s a fellow member of the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime. She describes herself as impatient, determined, involved, passionate, and kind. Her writing is action-packed, kickass, contemporary, exciting, and about truth. I’m wondering how she’s going to decide her third guest, have the contenders shoot rock, paper, scissors?
You have a table for four at your favorite restaurant and can invite any three people, l...

Chris Patchell - Guest Author

Please welcome fellow Kindle Scout winner Chris Patchell as today's guest author. She describes herself as smart, witty, curious, creative, and poised. She says her writing is dark, complex, tense, suspenseful, and gripping. Here are her eight choice questions, and I think, choice answers:
Describe your most productive writing venue. What makes it best for you?
Bar none, my favorite place to write is outside on my deck. I love to hear the wind in the trees, smell the freshly cut grass, feel the...

Sheila Webster Boneham - Guest Author

Please welcome guest author Sheila Webster Boneham today. She describes herself as curious, passionate, restless, funny, and disciplined. She characterizes her writing as smart, funny, compassionate, informed, and intriguing. Here are her remaining eight questions and answers:
You have a table for four at your favorite restaurant and can invite any three people, living, dead or fictional. Who are your guests (and why) and where are you eating (and why)?
My paternal grandmother would be fir...