Category: Historical Fiction
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JOURNAL OF AN UNDEAD: LOVE STORIES I have this scene scheduled for my next reading. My last reading, the first few pages of this novel, is available at https://studio.youtube.com/video/MXmvcpHRjMc/edit and it’s pretty dramatic, if you watch to the end. This next scene is the scene that the cover is derived from. Hope you enjoy it!…
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starstruck
Run-ins with the famous, more like train wrecks! Have you ever thought that the only way you can learn to be a parent, an in-law or a granny was by watching others on TV? I’ve had grandmothers, but they were pretty old, and maybe I was too young to learn from them. So now, I…
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Find your next great read
By listening to the introduction read to you by an actress / author. https://studio.youtube.com/video/MXmvcpHRjMc
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February 27:
“I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people are forced to eat what they kill, there would be no more war.” Abbie Hoffman, in Revolution for the Hell of It I’m reading the above to add more color to my novel ‘Dinner at Marshall Fields’ because they both include the riots at the 1968 Democratic National…
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Becoming an Authorized Bonanza Novelist
Timing & Miscommunication: David Dortort, who created the Bonanza TV series, passed away Sunday, September 5, 2010. He was 93, and the last time I saw him, previous to the 2009 convention, he was living in an assisted living facility. After the convention, they were honoring him at the Los Angeles Autry Museum of the American…
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The 40-Year Novel, or 5 Rules for Writers
(Awkward photo of Arabus’s first cover created by Solstice) Arabus Drake came to me in a dream in March 1983. I remember distinctly. It was two months after my youngest was born, right around the time I had my tubes tied. Now knowing I would have no more than three children, I gave birth to…
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Saving Boone: Legend of a Kiowa Son
Maybe his mother was crazy, but she didn’t deserve to die. Boone runs off, only 12, vowing to kill his father. He is taken as a slave, but on escape finds a kindly German settler in Texas and a large lost chunk of gold in the river. Boone retrieves it for him. This fate rewards Boone with the settler’s…
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