Category Archives: authors

Guilty, MY Honor

(I know, I am late. You would not believe the week I had.) This week: What’s your favorite guilty pleasure?  I’m such a good girl,   no, really, I am!  I take simple pleasures where I can get them, as life … Continue reading

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The Good Doctor

Finding myself needing to rest, I decided to start a limited series I had saved as a ‘watch later’ and never got around to. It was the 2016 version of “Doctor Thorne”, and I am so glad that I did … Continue reading

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Clever Sleight of Hand

Author Uses One Illusion to Distract Me From Questioning the Larger Illusion My Review of W.P. Kinsella’s “Shoeless Joe”By Jeff Salter I should begin this review by stating that (as a kid, and even older) I enjoyed playing SOFTball — … Continue reading

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Author Contract Cancelled Because

“the Public Wouldn’t Support Two Books on the Same Subject” Jeff Salter’s Spotlight of Sanora Babb’s Novel [Whose Names Are Unknown]That Threatened Steinbeck’s and Was Shelved for Some Six Decades It was the back story – rather than the “subject” … Continue reading

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Series of Unfortunate Events

This week’s topic:   Would you consider publishing a serialized version of one of your stories?  To be honest I quickly, (and wrongfully), assumed that it meant to consider making sequels to some of our stories.  I really had no idea … Continue reading

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Sharing Your Story a Bit at a Time

I supplied the topic for this week: Serialized stories, such as those offered through Kindle Vella, have recently become popular. Would you consider publishing a serialized version of one of your stories?  My motivation for pursuing this topic is the … Continue reading

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Happy Places

We are once again discussing movies. I think we have said a great deal about movies over the years, but I do love movies. Most of my family was keen on movies when I was growing up; my mother used to … Continue reading

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Keeping Up With Bloggers

Our resident hound asked, “What characteristics make for an interesting blog? Do you regularly read many/any blogs (besides this one)? Why or why not?” I read several blogs, though probably not as consistently as I would like. The main issue … Continue reading

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Sunset Stays

After a short break, something jarred the desire to hear more sci-fi. As usual, what I found were more interpersonal relationships, suspense, and mystery than hard-core sci-fi, which is fine, really.  Maybe it was because The Husband and I have … Continue reading

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“Socially” Acceptable

I thought of the topic of the week, “How do you use social media and how has it changed”, when I found myself on one platform more and more, one that I never expected to connect with folks through:  YouTube.  … Continue reading

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