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  • Voting Now Open

    Friends, Voting is open for the Readers Choice Awards on Books and Pals. Please help me out by voting for Dearest Irish in the Romance category. I’m up against tough competitors, so every vote counts. Big Al is offering some nice giveaway prizes, including a $50 Amazon gift card. It would really help if you’d…

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  • Thursday Tidbits: Home Healthcare Visit

    I had an interesting morning. Hubby and I had a home healthcare nurse come to the house and give us each a brief checkup plus go over our health care needs. This is a free service offered by United Healthcare because we’re enrolled in one of their Advantage plans. The nurse, a very nice young…

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  • Book Award News

    Big news! Dearest Irish (Texas Devlins, book 3) has been nominated for a 2014 Readers’ Choice Award on Books and Pals in the Romance category. Books and Pals is an influential online review site dedicated to indie authors like me. Had to share the news with y’all! Voting opens on March 2nd. I’ll post a…

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  • Monday Author Meetup: Chad Strong, Romantic Horse Lover

    About the author: Canadian writer Chad Strong has been around horses most of his life, riding western on rugged trails and in small amateur horse shows. His first novel, High Stakes, is a western historical romance set in Victoria, BC on Canada’s west coast, where he lived for many years. Currently he lives in southern…

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  • Thursday Tidbits: Kitchen remodeling, anyone?

    My husband and I are preparing to remodel our kitchen. Our appliances are showing their age, the cabinets put in by our builder are less than great (read cheap) and an updated kitchen is supposed to add more value to a house than anything else. So far we’ve applied for a home equity loan, attended…

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  • Monday Author Meetup: Jacquie Rogers’ Hearts of Owyhee Bonus

    About the author: Jacquie Rogers is a former software designer, campaign manager, deli clerk, and cow milker, but always a bookworm. Reading is her passion–westerns, fantasies, historicals of any era, all with a dash of romance. If an author can make her laugh, she’ll buy every book he/she ever wrote. Jacquie now lives in suburbia with her…

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  • Cats, Cats and More Cats!

    When I wrote my memoire, Six Cats In My Kitchen, I really did have six of the little darlings who crowded around my feet in the early morning, eager for their stinky fish breakfast. All six have gone to kitty heaven now, but they live on in my heart. One doesn’t ever forget one’s children,…

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  • Monday Author Meetup: Paty Jager’s “Bluffing the Marshal”

    About the author: Please welcome my guest, Paty Jager. With sixteen published books, four novellas, and two anthologies, award-winning author, Paty is never at a loss for story ideas and characters in her head. Her rural life in central and eastern Oregon, and interests in local history and the world around her, keeps the mystery…

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  • Two-finger Typing

    Today I’m kicking off a new blog feature. Let’s call it “Mid-Week Meanderings”. I’ll try to post an installment once a week, usually on Thursday, but I may miss a week now and then due to writing or family demands.  Sometimes I’ll tell you tales about my feline children. Other times, I might share favorite recipes. Often, I’ll…

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  • Monday Author Meetup: Rain Trueax – “Connie’s Gift” & New Release

    About the author: Rain Trueax lives with her husband and two cats on a sheep and cattle operation in the Oregon Coast Range. Her writing goals are to portray real life, passion, personal growth and mutual fulfillment for heroes and heroines, using the land and the mysteries that one finds when they stop to look…

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