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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- Author, Reader
- Do You Have A Website?
- yes, www.charlottesmysteries.com
- About Me:
- Retired Deputy Sheriff; author of two murder mysteries: Switched: A Detective Hardrock Mystery; Say Aloha to Murder: A Detective Hardrock Mystery. Had my first mystery short story published recently.
I am a member of Mystery Writer's of America, American Business Women's Assoc., Sisters in Crime, Toastmasters, and contributing writer to the southwest Florida Women's Digest.
- Favorite Books:
- Bill Crider, (my favorite) Agatha Christie, Janet Evanovich,(second favorite) Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark, Dorothy Sayers, many other mystery authors too numerous to list
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Bookstores are all pretty much the same
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Slides, Anyone?
I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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When RASCAL wakes up, you'll hear from her and/or her Mom - that would be me, Morgan Mandel.
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London, much like New York is made up of many areas. The City of London is indeed known as the square mile and comprises the financial district. This area is deserted come the weekend unlike all other areas of London. Moving outward London is divided in to North and South London and even this is then subdivided in NE, NW, E, W, SE and SW London. Each area has its own unique flavour and charm. I myself come from East London and am very proud of the fact. East Londoners are universally known as Cockneys and have a history of being rough diamonds, gangsters and wide boys! I am not sure which of the above I am! London is organic and has grown as the population swells. Its growth has now claimed parts of the surrounding counties (your states) reaching into Kent, Essex, and other areas known now as Greater London. I am unsure of the square milage of the whole of London but it is vast and growing.
Yes, we are in the throes of autumn/fall, it is just past 6pm and the sun is already in the descent. I only returned from Florida on Sunday and already miss the warmth even though it was a humid 90 degree plus most days!
I am about to turn my hand to the last few chapters of my next novel, which I am way late on. Novels don't get any easier no matter how many you write.
I read at least one or two books each week, sometimes more. I read a lot of mystery, of course, but I also like literary fiction and biographies. And, I'm a huge fan of Poe. Oh, and Lewis Grizzard's books still make me laugh.
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