Deborah Macgillivray's Blog, page 44

Coloring book night at Masterpiece Tea

Candy in yellow.  I am in the green jacket and the hat, and we are talking with Rebecca Chambers.
Coloring book night at Masterpiece Tea
113 East Main StreetLa Grange, KY 40031
A wonderful evening hosted by owners Rebecca and Bill Chambers.  We had wonderful grilled cheese sandwiches and hot dogs.  Great nattering on a wide variety of subjects and just a relaxing enjoyable night you cannot find anywhere else!!!



I am working on Sherlock and Watson -- 




Candy is working on kitty cats!

she came with her ladybug shoes!!

doings about town

Me heading to Colouring Book Night at Masterpiece Tea 


Candy with her chicken pocketbook

and her cow shoes...lol




Me heading to the Sunday Artists Salon at Masterpiece Tea


Candy's Andy Warhol shoes in celebration of the Sunday Salon


Bill Chambers, co-host of Masterpiece Tea snapped a picture of part of the group at the
Sunday Salon.

Candy the Hobbit is sitting at the end of the table...lol

Topic for the evening was your personal "White Whale" that elusive project that just keeps evading your grasp.  Everyone has something very different they were working on, but we found not matter the medium, it was a lack of confidence, connection and sometimes expanding your vision on the project.
A wonderful time was had by all, and everyone really reached a personal solution for them.

beauty of my flowers

 

Lunch at Big Rs and Shannon's Barbeque

Ignore the silly hair.  It was mashed strange by my hat, and the wind was blowing it around.

Candy relaxing on a wonderful beautiful day at
Big R's and Shannon's Barbecue, celebrating finishing my novella
  

Announcing a new Dragons of Challon novella!!

Coming Soon:

Dragons of Challon novella

"Gambit, Check & Mate"

Sad loss of another of Romance's Royalty - Jo Beverley

http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2016/05/in-memoriam-jo-beverley.html

The sad loss to publishing and the world

This is so heartbreaking. Lori and Tony Karayianni wrote dozens and dozens of wonderful books under the name Tori Carrington. Yesterday I learned of his passing of heart issues. So very sad.When I was first trying to get published they judged my The Invasion of Falgannon Isle in a contest. Most people judge anonymously. Not this pair. They wrote their names at the bottom of my entry and said let us help you get this published. That offer meant the world to me. I didn't take it, as I felt it necessary to get there myself, but it meant the world to someone struggling to find my spot in the business. Such kindness. I never have forgotten that pure kindness.I did ask for a cover quote from them on the second book in the series, Riding the Thunder and I have proudly sported that ever since.I am just so shaken that someone so kind is no longer with us.RIP Tony. This world is a much sadder place without your talent and gentleness.

New Business card

Front of the new business card with the new covers for the Dragons of Challon

Back of the Sisters of Colford Hall series

My 2 cents on Who Negan Killed -- an author's take on POV

My guess is It was Michonne (If they are not totally screwing with us). It's Michonne's POV in the shafts of lights. The view of someone at the back of the trailer with someone in front. Daryl is in front of her, so it's her POV seeing the odd shafts of lights in the trailer side. So it make sense they START with her POV and reinforce that at several points, they END with her POV.Negan kills someone with no hair hanging in their face (POV shows no hair obstructing their view as Negan strikes). Daryl, Glenn, Rick, Carl and Maggie have hair in their faces. Carl only has one eye as well. So does Eugene since his was swollen from the beating. The others don't, but Aaron, Rosita, Sasha, Abraham, Erin and MICHONNE - they cut her locks away from her face and hung them on the Zombie.If they are not screwing around it has to be a main character -- the death of Erin, Abraham, Aaron, Rosita, Eugene and Sasha just don't have the impact. Michonne would. Also, Rick has trouble keeping his women alive...lol.Gimble said the clues were there. He also said it wasn't Glenn, that they were taking a "LEFT TURN" from Glenn's death in the comics. Glenn is on the end of the line -- who is to his left? Daryl and Michonne. Daryl has hair in his face, Michonne doesn't. But they are both to Glenn's LEFT.Another nail in the coffin that makes me believe it's Michonne -- when Negan strikes he goes "Damn.....taking it like a champ." Negan would likely expect Daryl to take it "like a man". But he might not expect Michonne to do it. He would be impressed by a woman taking it head on. Daryl is weak and bleeding out. One swing from Lucille and he would go down (same reasoning for Maggie and Eugene - they are in rough condition). Abraham would take it head on, but again, you would expect that of him.Initially, before I saw the episode I took it to mean Maggie and the "Left turn" from Glenn. She was upset about the ending when she read the script. So it fit. But I have a feeling Gimble was TELLING you without telling you look to the immediately left of Glenn in the lineup.The final thing that points to Michonne. Rick said he was sick when he read the script. (Norman has said he knows too.) Outside of Carl which I ruled out, Michonne is the closest one to him - a character we all love so much. THAT might make him sick.

Cover reveal!!

Just in from the talented hands of Livia Reasoner at Prairie Rose Publications

Coming this Summer -- My Novella

Gambit, Check & Mate
with novellas from Cynthia Breeding and Lindsay Townsend