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Sally Crosiar (rhymes with ‘closure’) likes to read and write novels that delve into the messy, hopeful mix of inevitable conflicts that happen in every human relationship. People - what will they do?

Sally's second novel, HOME PLACE, is a contemporary romance set in the very house where Sally spent her first fourteen years and that she still calls her Home Place after all this time.
People develop relationships with places too.

"I certainly did with my Home Place! It's a grand old house built by my great-grands in the mid-1800s - a drafty barn of a place with touches of elegance and a whole boatload of sentiment," says Sally. In the story, Kat Patterson tries to save her ancestral home from her brother's greed. "I wanted to see if Kat could Sally Crosiar (rhymes with ‘closure’) likes to read and write novels that delve into the messy, hopeful mix of inevitable conflicts that happen in every human relationship. People - what will they do?

Sally's second novel, HOME PLACE, is a contemporary romance set in the very house where Sally spent her first fourteen years and that she still calls her Home Place after all this time.
People develop relationships with places too.

"I certainly did with my Home Place! It's a grand old house built by my great-grands in the mid-1800s - a drafty barn of a place with touches of elegance and a whole boatload of sentiment," says Sally. In the story, Kat Patterson tries to save her ancestral home from her brother's greed. "I wanted to see if Kat could stop her home from becoming a golf course as my family could not." Will she manage it? Sally's not telling.

Sally relies on her rural and small-town background in HOME PLACE and in her debut novel COME BACK. "I set COME BACK in a town I grew up near in Illinois - but moved it one state west to protect the innocent," says Sally. "I saw my characters on Main Street, at the Community Center, and the old Flat Iron building where I had my very first dentist appointment."

"I need stories to be well-grounded in place," Sally says. "But characters fascinate me too - especially when I can crawl inside their messy heads! That's why I write from multiple points of view. I need to figure out why my characters do and say the outrageous things they do as they push through tough challenges."

In addition to fiction, Sally published FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE to share how she and her late husband Dave found each other. “We’d both been hurt, and were nearly ready to give up on love. And then we both gave it one more shot. Lucky, lucky us!” That last shot at love involved a strategy Sally had never tried before. “I stopped looking for the perfect guy – and instead got really clear about what I wanted in a relationship. I set a goal for that amazing relationship – and 3 weeks later, I met Dave. He came with lots of complications, including being blind. But in my goal, I never said my partner had to be able to see! My goal kept me honest and gave me the guts to give love with Dave a try. Thank all the stars I did!”

Writing about Dave and the love story he and Sally created helped her heal after his death. “We held workshops and started the book before Dave died,” says Sally. “Writing Find the Love of Your Life helped keep Dave with me – and eventually helped me see that I’d learned too much about loving from him not to use what I learned. So I re-assessed my goal and only made one tweak that I knew Dave would want for me too. I asked for my partner to be healthy next time.” It took a little longer than three weeks the second time. “I started looking before I was really ready, is what I think,” Sally says. “But after so much grief, I did need to have fun again. I never expected dating to be fun – but it was! Maybe I just wasn’t old enough before.” Several years after Dave died, Sally met Ray. “Our relationship is different than what I had with Dave. We’re both different people. But the essential components – what I really need – those are present in my relationship with Ray. I’d say lucky, lucky us – but it took and continues to take a lot of work to be so lucky!”

In between times, Sally wrote another book that honors Dave. “I think of My Uncle Dave as a children’s book with an adult message,” says Sally. “It’s an almost true story about when Dave, the blind guy falls into the swimming pool and taught us both an important life lesson."

She has also co-authored LOVE BUILDERS: TOOLS TO BUILD ANY RELATIONSHIP with her friend and mentor Dr. Sidney Simon and numerous curricula used with children in out-of-school-time settings. ...more

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	Come Back 4.03 avg rating — 383 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Place 4.35 avg rating — 318 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Love Builders: Powerful Validation Tools to Enhance Every Relationship by Sally "Cecil" Crosiar, Sally Crosiar (Goodreads Author), Sidney B. Simon (With) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Salutations July 2023

Well hi. Remember me? A reader who shares her thoughts about the books she’s read – but hasn’t in months? Um, yeah. That’s me. I haven’t stopped reading, goodness knows. But I’m way behind in sharing.

So, though I keep making stuff and making stuff up, I’m not going to focus on those other important parts of my life right now. This Salutations is all about books!

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Sally Crosiar said: " Have you ever loved, loved, loved a place? But you didn't know how much till you couldn't be there anymore? That's me and the place I called home for the first fourteen years of my life. It's where I still feel rooted and what my family still calls o Have you ever loved, loved, loved a place? But you didn't know how much till you couldn't be there anymore? That's me and the place I called home for the first fourteen years of my life. It's where I still feel rooted and what my family still calls our Home Place though none of us has lived there for decades.

Our Home Place house graces the cover of my new novel - beautifully rendered by artist Nancy Lane (https://www.nancylanestudio.com/) - because the story is set in THAT house and on THAT farm. But other than some ancestral names and circumstances, Kat Patterson is not me. She does want to save her Home Place from becoming a golf course as my Home Place now has become, and I'd have wanted to do that too. But Kat Patterson and all the characters in Home Place are their own people. And the big question of the book is whether Kat will be able to save her home or not.

For a long time as I wrote, I didn't know the answer. Would she or wouldn't she? I hoped. Oh boy did I hope. But stories don't always turn out the way you think - or hope - they will. And oh the practicalities! Non-farmable land? A big house with two kitchens, two dining rooms, two of everything? And only Kat living there? How would she even pay the taxes with her on-again-off-again home rehab business and part-time museum work?

Those are just some of the arguments Kat hears from her brother Paul who sees dollar signs even before their father dies. She wants to dig in her heels, protect her home and the family history that roots her there. But the odds are stacked against her, especially when Paul hires Whip Tyler to develop the property. How could he after all the damage Whip did to their family?

Whip has plenty of reasons not to trust Paul Patterson, but business is business, and as a site engineer on his own, he needs the business. And maybe taking Paul up on his offer will ease the guilt that's weighed him down since he was fifteen. Maybe too, if he's on the job, he can protect Kat's interests. No other developer would care as much as he would. Not when a pair of green eyes and wild curls tug so at his heart.

I had great fun spending the last three years with Kat and Whip, learning how their stories diverge and occasionally merge with my own within the walls of the Home Place I still love. I hope you'll enjoy their story too and your own visit to Kat's - and my - Home Place.

Available November 18, 2020. ...more "

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