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Week 40

The Rubber Boot Journalist spent the week in Conspiracy getting hundreds of pages of edits done and is now working back through the manuscript add missing threads before it’s off to the editor.

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Week 39

Week 39, Rubber Boot Journalist, was on the road taking pics of a recent forest fire.  Who knew I’d be ankle deep in dust?

Week 39, The Rubber Boot Journalist, still trying to make time to get back to Conspiracy.  Hopefully by tomorrow.  In the meantime here are some more pics of the forest fire.

Week 39, the Rubber Boot Journalist is off to take pictures of the rice harvest to wrap up this months articles and head for Conspiracy to finish edits.

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Week 38

Week 38, Rubber Boot Journalist is heading off for conference so busy writing, writing, writing to meet deadlines and will dig into Conspiracy when she gets back.  Here are some more recent pics.

Week 38, Rubber Boot Journalist is headed to Seattle for conference early tomorrow morning so posting a few more pics today then will post pics from Seattle.  Todays pics are of walnut harvest.

Week 38, the Rubber Boot Journalist is back from Seattle all pumped up from meeting with writers and readers and ready to dig in.

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Week 37

Week 37, the Rubber Boot Journalist is back at her desk and working on edits for Leave Me Breathless and covering the wildfires in California.  Here are a few more waterfall pics.

Week 37, Rubber Boot Journalist is on the road again taking pictures of the Day Fire from last July.  And the edits are back on Breathless so digging into that too.  Here’s another pic of the Clearwater waterfall and BBQing on the lake.

Week 37, Rubber Boot Journalist, is back in the office after three days on the road.  Have not made it to Conspiracy yet but going to make an effort today.  Here are some full moon pics I’m working on as promised.They aren’t as good as I’d hoped and I’ll keep working on getting better ones.

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Week 36

Week 36 the Rubber Boot Journalist is on the road to Burney, California, to cover the fire from last summer. Here are a few sunset pics from the Wallowa Mountains. The smoke from the fires gives it a deeper color.

Week 36, The Rubber Boot Journalist is in the office today working on edits of Leave Me Breathless. It’s getting closer. Here are some pics from Oregon.

Week 36, Rubber Boot Journalist is back in the office and working on an article about the California wild fires and putting edits into Leave Me Breathless.  I’m moving along.  Here are some more pics of the Clearwater water fall.

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Week 35

Rubber Boot Journalist is back.  I apologize everyone.  I’ve been focused on getting the next book finished and not much else.  So today I’m back with photos to share of recent photo shoots and these pics are in the Wallowa Mountains in eastern Oregon.  Hope everyone is well.

Week 35, the Rubber Boot Journalist.  On the road today taking more photos.  Here are a few more of the Wallowa Mountains.

Week 35, the Rubber Boot Journalist.  On the road again taking pictures of prune trees.  Here are some more pics of a waterfall in the Wallowa Mountains.

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Character Blog Hop

A warm thanks

to my pal Jasmine Haynes for tagging me in the Character Blog Hop! The

character blog hop consists of answering a few questions to let our readers

know about the new characters we’ve got coming in the near future.

Now let’s get

started by telling you about the fabulous Jasmine.

NY Times and USA

Today bestselling Jasmine Haynes/Jennifer Skully is the author of classy erotic

romance, hilarious romantic mysteries, and the Max Starr sensual suspense

series. Visit her at www.jasminehaynes.com.

Be sure and stop

by her blog to learn about her latest release Pleasing Mr. Sutton. http://www.jasminehaynes.blogspot.com/?zx=32abfb7fa802f895






Here’s my story,

Leave Me Breathless.

1) What is the

name of your character?

My parents named

me Cordelia Jane Pulaski, but my byline is C.J. Pulaski, and that’s what

everyone knows me as at the San Francisco Sun newspaper, where I worked until

just recently.

2) When and where is the story set?

 

I lived in San

Francisco until I lost my job, then I moved back to my hometown of Conspiracy.

Conspiracy is a picturesque northern California coastal town. Everywhere you

turn here their are breathtaking views from the rugged coastline, to the

pristine beaches, to the towering redwoods. So why did I leave here you wonder?

I have a father and two brothers who would rule my life if I lived here. My

dad, Charlie, runs Pulaski’s Bar and Grill with my brother Jed. The restaurant sits

right on the Pacific Ocean and the food that is out of this world. My other

brother, Michael, is a minister who is way too interested in guiding my private

life.



3) What should we know about her?

I’m a photojournalist

and I just lost my job at a the Sun for making a rookie mistake. So I tucked

tail and came home to Conspiracy to lick her wounds and work for the local

newspaper as an agriculture reporter until I can regain my credibility and get

back in the game. This job is a definite step down for me, but I love my new

editor. While I’m out covering the local fish cannery, I meet up with the chief

of police, Nate Cole. He’s trying to apprehend a criminal, slips on a fish and

sends us both into a bin of freshly caught dover sole.  When I look and into his baby blues, and I

have this sense that life is going to get interesting, and leaving Conspiracy

might not be as easy as now that Nate’s in the picture.

4) What is the main conflict? What messes up her

life?
I thought I’d

nailed Congressman Moline. I know he’s dirty and I thought I had him nailed.

The story went to print, and then I learned I’d been fed false information from

a trusted friend. It’s my fault. I should have checked it better, but I screwed

up and lost not only my job, but two other journalists were fired because of me.

I’ve got to redeem myself and I won’t stop until I nail Congressman Moline. In

the meantime, Dad has coerced me into joining The Trench Coat Brigade, his band

of  amateur sleuths, that include my

uncle, my best friend’s mom, my goddaughter, and Chief Cole. Everywhere I turn

that man pops up, chipping away at my determination to leave Conspiracy.

5) What is the personal goal of the character?

I have to get

back in the Big Leagues. I’ve worked too hard and too long to walk away from my

career. Who would have thought the Trench Coat Brigade would be my way back in.

When a missing person case turns into a 40-year-old murder that I help them

solve, bing, bang, boom my career is relaunched. But is it what I really want?

In my heart of hearts, I’ve always wanted a relationship like my parents had. A

love so strong you don’t need words to express what you’re feeling. And now I’m

torn between the career I love, and the man who can give me that kind of love.

As the song says, “Should I stay or should I go?” You’ll have to read it to

find out.

6) Is there a working title for this novel, and can

we read more about it?

Leave

Me Breathless is in progress. To learn about other books by Kate Curran check

out her webpage www.katecurran.net


7) When can we expect the book to be published?

Leave Me

Breathless will hopefully be out late this fall. To keep up with my latest

releases sign up for my newsletter at www.katecurran.net

or like me on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/katecurranauthor

Next up on the character blog hop is my friend Deb Julianne who writes hilarious slap-stick comedy.

Deb will be posting on September 1st, so don’t miss out on her blog!

While some say

truth is stranger than fiction, Deb Julienne’s experience runs more along the

lines of slap-stick comedy. She believes when life tosses you lemons it’s best

to turn it into Limoncello.

Baking,

gardening, and writing help fill the leftover space of the day job.

As a teen of

the 70’s, some of her most precious memories are enough to make her laugh out

loud. She considers herself lucky to have had many friends and partners in

crime, stretching the boundaries along the way. Life has been known to take

U-turn at a moment’s notice dropping her into a compost heap.

Born and

raised in San Jose, California, she now resides in the Tahoe National Forest

Basin, her own bit of heaven on earth, with her husband of 33 years, with three

sons and one daughter, and two very precious grandkids.

Deb’s

books are available on KindleUnlimited:
All Romance: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-sexliesandbeautyaides-1445590-149.html
Amazonkindle: http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Lies-Beauty-Aides-Julienne-ebook/dp/B00IPQWZY0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395762216&sr=8-1&keywords=9781616505165
Google:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/sex-lies-and-beauty-aids/id830804953?mt=11&uo=4
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/sex-lies-and-beauty-aides
Nook: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sex-lies-and-beauty-aids-deb-julienne/1118903124?ean=9781616505165

Find Deb

at:

www.debjulienne.com
Twitter: @debjulienne
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deb.julienne
Facebook author: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Deb-Julienne/752399544824095
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/debjulienne/
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/deb%20julienne
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7874605.Deb_Julienne
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Deb-Julienne/e/B00IRN9TKE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

 

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Week 34

Week 34, Rubber Boot Journalist has been busily working on Leave Me Breathless and got some new scenes written today and really wishing she was in Conspiracy instead of inland where it was 109 today!

Week 34 the Rubber Boot Journalist has been absent for several weeks with good reason.  She’s been working on Breathless and and getting closer to getting it off to the editor.  She’s also been out taking photos of eastern Oregon.  Here are a few of a sunset.  Stay tuned for more.  Amazing country.

Week 34, Rubber Boot Journalist is making good progress on Breathless this week.  As promised here are more Oregon photos from the Wallowa Mountains and today’s are a waterfall I stumbled across.

Week 34, Rubber Boot Journalist, is making progress on Leave me Breathless.  Getting scenes in the right order and doing edits.  It will be done soon!  Here’s some more pics of the waterfall in the Wallowa Mountains.

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Week 3

Week 3, day 1, the Rubber Boot Journalist is working on a series of articles on the different types of agriculture on the four sides of Mt. Shasta.  This week is the north side which has everything from cattle, vegetables, tree fruit and lavender.






Week 3, day 2, the Rubber Boot Journalist continues on the north side of Mt. Shasta typing away on vegetables grown there.  I'm amazed they can grow such beautiful vegetables with the wind and cold weather, but these high tunnels that look like a greenhouse really help. I’m also making progress on Falling.



Week 3, day 3 the Rubber Boot Journalist continues work on the Mt. Shasta series focusing on lavender today and made huge progress on Falling yesterday and hopes to get more done today.





Week 3, day 4, the Rubber Boot Journalist is still working on the north side of Mt. Shasta agriculture and starting a cattle article today. Also making good progress on Falling.
 

Week 3, day 5, the Rubber Boot Journalist is finishing up the north side of Mt. Shasta article and making good progress on falling. Here are some pics from the north side of Mt. Shasta.

Week 2

Week two, Day 1 of the Rubber Boot Journalist. Back in the office and setting up photo shoots for irrigation and cranberries this week as well as covering almond harvest. Here are a couple of photos from a recent harvest. Also starting a new read of falling.




Day 2 of the Rubber Boot Journalist wrapping up a potato article in the Klamath Basin today. Aren't all these new colors in the skins and flesh just fabulous? I also printed more of falling to read on the way to the photo shoot.










Day 3 the Rubber Boot Journalist is taking photos of cranberries today and will post photos later...I'm back after 14 hours of driving and here's a sampling of the cranberry photos.
 









Day 4 the Rubber Boot Journalist is back in the office and working on cranberries and pumpkins today. What a mix! And digging back into falling.
 











Day 5 the Rubber Boot Journalist is back in the office working on Falling today and finishing up the pumpkin article. I've added a few shots of Porkchop who likes to steal my pencils and pens and be an overall pest while I'm trying to work.