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- www.celiahayes.com
- About Me:
- I was born and brought up in a remote part of Southern California (yes, there are remote parts of SoCal!) and enlisted in the Air Force, where I served for 20 years before retiring from active duty in Texas. I have lived there ever since, and after departing a second career as an administrative/executive secretary, I turned to blogging extensively and writing historical novels.
- Do you have a blog site?
- http://www.ncobrief.com
- Favorite Books:
- Rosemary Sutcliffe "Rider on a White Horse", all of G.M. Fraser's "Flashman" books, M.M. Kaye's "Shadow of the Moon", Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series.
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Independent Authors Guild
I have gotten together with a handful of other writers to brain storm some marketing strategies; all of us are either small-press or POD and totally exasperated with the current paradigm. There must be a better way for our books to reach interested readers. Without very much more ado, we formed the Independent Authors Guild, put up a website and a discussion group for interested members and p
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So Where Does it Come From?
“To Truckee’s Trail” was pretty easy – the plot and the persona were all pretty well laid out there: Wagon train, composed of such and such people, travels from Council Bluffs to Sacramento in the year of our Lord 1844 and this is what happens to them along the way. All I had to do was work out the personal traits of those involv
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A Song - "Back in the Bookworks Again!"
Well, she's back in the bookworks a'gin.
Writin' away when she kin'.
'magination's never dry,
When there's his'try there to ply,
'Cause she's back in the bookworks a'gin.
Writin' 'bout his'try once more,
Poundin' her ol' com-pu-tor
She's describin'' Truckee's Trail,
Starvin'… Continue
Posted on October 6, 2007 at 10:01am —
Well, blogging... I know what that is!
I've been at it for a while, since 2002, for a group mil-blog called Sgt. Stryker's Daily Brief... that is, everyone who wrote for it had to have been a military veteran, of the American, British, Canadian or Australian forces. The original Stryker was a wise-ass mechanic who dabbled in blogging, got tired of producing original content after a year, and then asked for contributors. He got tired and moved on, I stayed. We changed it to "The Daily Brief" an
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New Killer Career Excerpt at Acme Authors Link
Hi Gang,Today, I've got a new Killer Career excerpt up at http://acmeauthorslink.blogspot.com/ . This one continues from the first excerpt I posted on Monday at http://makeminemystery.blogspot.com/
If you're curious about my recently released romantic suspense, come on over to one or both blogs to check it out.
Thanks,
Morgan
Time Out for Kindle Reading
Our local library has 8 kindles available for its patrons. The DH and I both got on the waiting list, mainly so I could use one. His number was reached and we picked up the kindle on Sunday afternoon. Now I've got a kindle to read for 2 weeks! So far I'm really loving it, especially the current book I'm reading, My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.What about you? Do you own a kindle? Or, have you tried someone else's? Would you like to?
Who's Doing Cyber Monday?
I'm very carefully going to check out the Cyber Monday deals. I have a few items in mind that I plan to buy, but it would be very nice if they'd go on sale and save me some money. I won't be spending much. Can't afford to do so this year.What about you?
Did You Shop on Black Friday?
There's still time to take the poll to the left about what you ate at Thanksgiving.About Black Friday -
The DH despises mob scenes, but my brother and I do love the adventure of shopping on Black Friday. We weren't courageous enough to get up at the crack of dawn, though, so we did miss out on a few goodies, like the snuglee blankets and pots and pans sets at Menards, and some other items. I did manage to get some work gloves at almost 50 cents each pair, and a boot/shoe dryer which sounded interesting and was less than $9.00. The biggest extravagance there was this turntable with MP3 encoding/AM FM radio combination thing, but that was only $49.00, which isn't too bad. I didn't go for any of the high ticket items.
I didn't do too bad, but do have some Staples rebates to send in. They're pretty easy to do online, so I don't mind doing them. I bought some USB flash drives, batteries, and CD rewrites there.
I also bought a reversible light grey, almost white bubble coat and some grey boots at Walmart, both items $7.00 each, which I plan to use walking Rascal.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of deals did you get?
So, this year I was pretty practical, but it was still fun and I did get a few things I hadn't expected to find.
What about you? Did you shop on Black Friday? If so, what kind of finds did you get?
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