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Author News :)

I have the pleasure of announcing that Heidi Glick interviewed me on the prestigious Sleuths and Suspects blog. If you like getting to know suspense authors better, it’s the place to drop in from time to time! This is the link.

Fiction Fridays: From the Inside Out

I gazed at my face in the bathroom mirror. Where I used to have dimples when I smiled, now my cheeks were flatter, the skin a little looser. “Mary Jane Hart, you’ve always been on the svelte side,” my kooky aunt Delia would say, but as I placed my hands on my hips to span […]

Fiction Fridays: The Well

Sorry I’m a day late on this post. I spent most of yesterday making the switch to this new blog. What do you think? By the way, I have an announcement to make about these short stories. If you’ve been reading my Facebook author page, you may already know this, but these short stories have […]

Fiction Fridays: Jacob Mercer, Hometown Hercule Poirot

I wrote this short story on the date mentioned: 6-26-10. It was our 6th wedding anniversary, but that has nothing to do with what you’ll see here…

“Have you taken a lunch yet, Mercer?” Ben Garner looked at me over his horn-rimmed glasses, and with his mouth open like that I could see something orange stuck in his teeth.

“Yep, I’m about to get off, since I opened.” I smiled wide at him, hoping I could return the favor. Broccoli? Probably.

Ben didn’t seem to notice. He looked down at the schedule...

Fiction Fridays: A Creaking Door

Originally written in January, 2009
Sherri Eason hated nights like this, when gusts of wind rushed pell-mell in and out of the eaves of her Gothic Victorian. She never knew what the sounds of the storm could be covering up, and as one sitting alone on a chaise lounge in the middle of a velvet-lined living room, she was pretty sure she didn’t want to find out.Her only companion was a collection of old “Laugh-In” shows. Occasionally, a peal of thunder would follow an especially clever joke, but t...

Fiction Fridays: USPS Blue

This is a short story I wrote back in 2010. It’s been on my fiction blog ever since. (yes, I do know that present tense isn’t popular, but I like it every once in a while…)Enjoy!

German Rafferty takes his squeegee and rinses the residual window cleaner off with water from a spray bottle dangling from his belt. The breezes are gusting a little strongfor his taste, but this is the first clear day D.C. has had in more than a week. His contract is for once a month, but the rainwater stains tattle...

Fear Fridays: blog WHAT?!

Today is survey day, my awesome readers!

WHAT is your opinion?

I have been nervous for a while now, because my fears have nearly run out (haha, you don’t hear that very often). There have been several

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fears I have shied away from writing about (terrorists, rapists, and death), and I don’t know how many other ones I feel free to focus on. There are scriptures about keeping our minds on things above. (Philippians 4:8, Romans 6:19)

So, with that introduction, I...

Food Fridays: Balsamic Tuna Blossom

This is an easy, fast salad I like to make for lunch.

Ingredients:

Two large handfuls salad greens, your choice (I used butter lettuce)

Half a red, yellow, or orange bell pepper, sliced

10-15 snow pea or snap pea pods

1 can albacore tuna

1 tsp mayo

1 T olive oil

1/2 tsp balsamic vinegar

salt and pepper to taste

Mix the tuna and wet ingredients in a small bowl. Put the greens on a plate and nest the tuna in the middle. Arrange the peas and peppers around it, and season with salt and pepper. I like to ea...

Fear Fridays: Insignificance

This morning I awakened to a very pleasant post on my Facebook wall. A friend had notified me, with congratulations, I’d won first place in the RWA Daphne du Maurier contest (inspirational category) for my manuscript, Raw Nerves.

What is the measure of a man?

I also saw on Twitter this morning (as I was writing this entry), that a sweet friend and amazing mentor Ronie Kendig also won first place in the RWA Faith, Hope & Love (Inspirational Reader’s Choice) contest for her book, Trinity.

Now, I a...

Giveaway! Giveaway! (and insider secrets about Six Solitude Road)

I am thrilled to announce that Lisa Godfrees is giving away two copies of my book on her blog!

Here is the link. )

http://lisagodfrees.com/2013/07/17/author-spotlight-giveaway-the-beguiling-bethany-macmanus/

Now, what are you waiting for? Click on over there!