I live in Eastern, North Carolina. I love diverstiy, meeting new people, animals, travel, fishing, reading, writing, the great outdoors.
After becoming a published author, my next greastest desire is to have a producer purchase the movie rights to Love's Soft Voice from me and turn the story into a movie.
Please visit Ruby's Wish List on her website at http://www.rubysbooks.i8.com! The Wish List entails the names of actors that hopefully will star in Love's Soft Voice, when it becomes a movie.
The Medicine Wheel is a sacred part of my life. I truly believe that we are all connected and whatever we do to another, we do to ourselves. I dedicate this Medicine Wheel to all my friends on this site.
The young folks seem to love hip hop pow-wow music and dance and I love whatever makes the young folks happy, keeps them out of trouble, and keeps their interest! I love pow-wows too! Check out the video that I've included. It's great!
Hi RUBY LEE ~ LOVE YOUR FRIEND Daniel ! I love anyone with a kind spirit alot ! Especially Like Ruby and Morgan ~ Kind heartied people around Welland here are hard to find!
I miss my country life back in Wainfleet Ruby Lee!
Country Boy Gone Now! Good night now!
Hey Ruby,
I just visited your website. Very nice site! I'm very interested in your book, Love's Soft Voice. It sounds like a beautiful love story.
At 11:57am on February 24, 2008, Tim Quinton said…
Hello Ruby,
Thank you for posting on my page. If you have the chance and would like to know more about my books, go to my website at www.timquinton.com
I am so not ready for Christmas. I just realized I don't have much time either. One good thing is the DH is off Friday and possibly all next week, so I can give him a few chores to do, which may help some. I'm counting on him to put stamps and labels on the Christmas cards, and do a few things around the house to straighten it out some. Unfortunately, I'm the organizer in the family, so I can't expect too much on the getting-the- house ready front. That's pathetic, since I'm not very organized. (g)
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?
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.
For instance. Did I bother to ask my grandfather what it was like playing in the first night football game in America?
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.
That's why I'm writing adventures I wanted my ancestors to have; adventures I can enjoy with them through the eyes and voice of my character, Gus.
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
Mary Cunningham is the author of the award-winning 'Tween fantasy/mystery series, Cynthia’s Attic. She is proud to announce the release of book four, "The Magician's Castle," Dec 1, 2009. Her children's mystery series was inspired by a recurring dream about a mysterious attic. After realizing that the dream took place in the home of her childhood friend, Cynthia, the dreams stopped and the writing began.
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!
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.
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?
December 12, 2009 at 6pm to December 23, 2009 at 7pm
Christmas Celebration at Whispers Publishing's reader's loop. Come meet authors, participate in chats, contests, read steaming hot excerpts, win books! Our grand prize this year is a basket filled with Godiva's Cocolates.
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I miss my country life back in Wainfleet Ruby Lee!
Country Boy Gone Now! Good night now!
I just visited your website. Very nice site! I'm very interested in your book, Love's Soft Voice. It sounds like a beautiful love story.
Thank you for posting on my page. If you have the chance and would like to know more about my books, go to my website at www.timquinton.com
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I hope you have a great time. Your photos are wonderful.
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Morgan Mandel