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- http://blueridgewriter.blogspot.com
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- I'm an author who writes paranormal suspense books with a bit of romance. I'm working on my 5th novel right now. Number four is making the round of the agents.
My day job is running a B&B in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I make a mean muffin!
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://blueridgewriter.blogspot.com
- Favorite Books:
- Northanger Abbey
Rebecca
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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MORGAN'S OWN BLOGSPOT
Are you ready?
Anyway, I hope to get the house into decent shape before Christmas, when I do my annual meal for the family. There's also that Christmas list to get together. Time is ticking away.
What about you? Are you ready for Christmas? Or do you celebrate another Holiday? If so, are you ready?
Please Welcome Mary Cunningham, Cynthia's Attic Author
One of the main reasons for writing "Cynthia's Attic" came from my failure - failure to appreciate my ancestors. Our family stories are probably no more or less interesting than most, and I went out of my way to avoid remembering most of them or asking questions about my grandparents lives.
Or did I try to find out just which relative "supposedly" sold a city block on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $20,000? Guaranteed, I would not be sitting here writing a blog had that particular relative held on to the property.
Then there's the story, "Cynthia's Attic: Curse of the Bayou," of my great-great grandfather, Augustus Boilliat who disappeared in 1860 while taking a load of produce down the Mississippi River to New Orleans? Oh, sure I've read different accounts about what happened to him, but lost forever are the stories his grandson (my grandfather) could've told me about facts he'd heard from my great-great grandmother, Marie Julia, about her husband's disappearance.
I remember a few accounts told by my dad about his adventures as a teenage cave guide at one of the largest caves in the Southern Indiana area, Wyandotte, but I only have to guess at some of the adventures he must've had.
The idea for Cynthia's Attic: The Magician's Castle came from detailed genealogy research done by my cousin, Betty. Long before the Internet, she traveled to Switzerland to search for documents that would tie our great-grandmother, Harriet Kistler, to Peter Kistler the First, President of the Republic of Bern, 1470-1480. I've tried to honor the Kistler family in the fourth adventure in Cynthia's Attic.
Thanks, Morgan, for having me as a guest!
Mary Cunningham
She is also co-writer of the humor-filled, women's lifestyle book, "Women Only Over Fifty (WOOF)," along with published stories, "Ghost Light" and "Christmas Daisy," A Cynthia's Attic short story.
To celebrate the release of "The Magician's Castle," (Quake/Echelon Press, DEC 1, 2009), a winner will be chosen on each blog stop to receive a copy of the "Cynthia's Attic" short story, "Christmas With Daisy!" So, be sure to make a comment!
Mary Cunningham Books
http://www.marycunninghambooks.com/
Cynthia's Attic Blog
http://www.cynthiasattic.blogspot.com/
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Mary-Cunningham/e/B002BLNEK4/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Kindle
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-text&field-author=Mary%20Cunningham
Fictionwise
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a20811/Mary-Cunningham/?
Quake/Echelon Press
http://www.echelonpress.com/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23&zenid=4ac57b7ae19fa071cab3b4295df7baf3
Please leave a comment to welcome Mary.
Check out the Mystery of the Missing Checks
Monday, I'm over at my group blog, http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/, where I'm blogging about the mystery of the missing checks. Come on over and find out what it's all about.Thanks,
Morgan Mandel
Can We Talk?
I'm firming up some dates for speaking engagements in 2010. One's tentatively set for March 28, at 1:30 at the Niles Public Library, another probably in mid May at the Schaumburg Township District Library.Also, coming up is a radio interview at WJJQ again on May 7, at 9:35 a.m. before my booksigning May 8 at Cover to Cover Books in Tomahawk, WI.
I've heard that some people are more afraid of public speaking than of dying. Surprisingly, I find it easier each time I do it. As long as I have my cheat sheet with me to glance down at once in a while for security and I like what I'm talking about, I'm okay.
What about you? Do you like to talk or would you rather not?
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We do seem to write a lot of the same stuff. Good for us.
Bess McBride
I've been seeing Nor Cal bumper stickers on trucks and Hondas everywhere. I guess they're trying to let tourists know that this area is quite different from LA, lol.
Gate Walker sounds very intriguing. I'm sure it will find a home. I think the paranormals that stray away from the werewolf/vampire angle are what's hot right now...or, at least, on the way up.
The other is called Gate Walker, an 18 year-old gal, who in reality is the daughter of the God Janus. She ends up with some extraordinary time-travel skills, and blunders into all sorts of mischief and mayhem.
My agent has my newest book in full read on the desks of the editors at Bantam, Luna, Avon, Warner, and St. Martins.
Yes, something has to break for us in 2008!
Chris
Welcome to Book Place.
I hope you have a wonderful time here & be sure to tell all your friends!
Morgan Mandel
Good luck to both of us. I do think we're in the perfect genre for a hit. Although paranormal romance might edge us out a bit, I'm still hopeful.
My latest one is a werewolf created from a DNA cloning experiment gone wrong. St. Martins assigned my agent to find somebody to write such a book. I'm hoping they jump on it.
Chris