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October 2020 FREE BOOK!
Our October Free Book is Sara Peretsky’s most recent in her V.I. Warshawski series. You might notice something a bit different about our give-away copy. this month. Check out the yellow notice in the upper right of the cover–Advance Reader’s Edition (ARE). Most of us never get our hands on an ARE. That’s because they’re…
Your Life & Mine: Treasured Memories
Holidays are often the times we accumulate some beautiful memories. This Christmas, my daughter-in-law thought to take a photograph of our granddaughters with their great grandfathers, my dad (far right) and my husband’s dad (far left). Both fathers are in their 90s and a very present part of our everyday lives, so sometimes we forget…
October 2013 First Book Winner!
Congratulations to Kim Harrison (Yes, she’s my niece and NO I didn’t cheat when I drew her name!!) who just won Olivia Newport’s novel THE INVENTION OF SARAH CUMMINGS. For those who didn’t win but would love to buy a copy of the book, here’s a link you can copy and paste. Or check it…
On The Road: The Traveling Writer
One of the great perks of writing books has to be the “on the road” aspect. My husband Neil and I have a dorky habit of beginning our journeys with a quick rendition of the Willy Nelson song, “On the Road Again.” (I warned you we were dorky.) On this particular trip, though, I flew…
GGOL, GGAAK
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