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- Author Bio: JACQUELINE (Jacki) McGUYER
Stories of Spirits, Angles, Sinners and Saints
Published (First Novel) Blood Secrets-Inspirational/Romance-January 2007
The Java Pump (Second Novel) Inspirational/Mystery Suspense-October 2008
Honorable Mention-Writer's In the Spirit Contest – His Pure White Light
Honorable Mention-Colorado Gold Contest – In the Shadow of the Valley
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- http//www.jackimcguyer.com
- About Me:
- While raising four children she got her degree in accounting in Houston Texas. As an accountant, she worked in the oil industry and the hospitality industry. When she got tired of counting beans, she and her husband transferred to Vail, Colorado where she was resident manager for a resort hotel for ten years. The Rocky Mountains were the inspiration for her first novel, Blood Secrets, published January 2007.
Through the years, Jacqueline has owned her own accounting practice, an antique shop, a thriving cleaning service in Vail, and a Mexican Import store in California. She has traveled to Canada, Hawaii and Mexico. She's lived in California, Colorado, Texas and Florida. Through it all, she has always had one passion--writing.
She has many works in process, among them a Civil War novel, a Time Travel, and a unique book of recipes called Recipes Straight from Mother's Head, which will be finished by next summer. She also has a Free Inspirational Writer's Workshop available on her website.
She loves to go to garage sales, read, collect old books, work in the yard, barbeque with the family, and write-write-write. She desires to write books like Calendar Girls, The World According to Garp, and The Scarlet Thread. She wishes she had a mind like Stephen King, or Randy Ingermanson, which know no bounds. She loves almost every kind of music except Rap and beat your head against the sidewalk Rock and Roll.
She is a wife, a mother of four, grandmother of nine, great-grandmother of two. She has a dog who loves her no matter what she does or says—or what she looks like. She's the Director for the Children's department and writes a Newsletter for her church and articles for the web, but mostly she sticks to writing fiction.
With every book she writes, it is her ambition to grow and be faithful to her readers. She aspires to give them an entertaining story that will dazzle and provide honest and thoughtful information to keep them coming back for more. Above all, she is a Christian writer, and her faith guides her pen.
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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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Years ago I visited San Antonio when we were on a train layover on the the way to Arizona. It was a lot of fun seeing the River Walk. Hope you have lots of fun here & be sure to tell your friends.
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