This week I read Sandra Orchard’s Over Maya Dead Body, and this is a book you won’t want to miss! But you don’t want to read this book without reading the first two, Another Day Another Dali and A Fool and His Monet! Here are the reviews I wrote for each: Another Day Another Dali I love, love this story by Sandra Orchard and hated …
Happy Birthday, America
Today is the Fourth of July and in honor of Independence Day, I want to salute our men and women who faithfully serve our country and those who have died to protect it.
Reader Friday
What are you reading this week? After I typed that, I realized I should challenge everyone to read at least one book each week! Lately, that’s what I’ve been able to do. Last week I read Mississippi’s own Stephenia H. McGee’s In His Eyes. Stephenia lives just outside Jackson, Mississippi and her book is set a few miles north in Greenville, during Reconstruction …
What Are You Reading Friday?
It’s What are you reading Friday and this week I’m reviewing a book I finished earlier this month: Murder Mezzo Forte by Donn Taylor. Here’s the back cover blurb: He is a reclusive history professor with musical hallucinations, she a headstrong professor of religion. Earlier, they solved a campus murder, but now police say they formed two-thirds of an illicit …
Cystic Fibrosis and Tia’s Troopers
Today I will be joining the Heartwarming authors on Facebook to support Tia’s Troopers and the fight against Cystic Fibrosis. We’ll be giving away prizes and you’ll have the opportunity to buy Janie Crouch’s romantic suspense novel, Survival Instinct (Instinct series book three) for .99. She’s giving 100% of preorder proceeds to help fund CF research. Her daughter has been friends with …
Excuses, Excuses
I’ve always said everyone should own rental property in their lifetime. “Why?” might you ask. For one thing, you’ll have stories to write a blog about, and another, you wouldn’t believe the excuses people come up with when they don’t have the rent. More on the last one later, but first a story. One of the houses we once rented out was …
What Are You Reading?
This is the first of my book review blogs and I wanted to start out with a Southern mystery. Mary Ellis is well-known for her Amish fiction and historical romance. You can learn more about her at her website. I loved the setting of Savannah, Georgia, and Tybee Island, places I’ve always wanted to visit. The fact that everyone there has secrets …
Research in a Cemetery
This past weekend I went to a cemetery. Not just any old cemetery, but one in the heart of downtown Memphis. Elmwood Cemetery, eighty acres of beautiful old trees, and isn’t that a beautiful old white oak? It’s the oldest active cemetery in Memphis and was the burial place of over 1400 people who died in the Yellow Fever epidemic in …
A Six-Billion Dollar Industry
Last week I mentioned in a comment that I’d been to a training on human trafficking and some of you wanted to know more about what I learned. I thought I’d give a brief overview of what human trafficking is and how it affects us. The following is not for the faint of heart, but it’s something we can no …
And Then the Police Came
It’s been an interesting weekend, ending with me having laryngitis. First of all, I didn’t get the book off on Thursday to my editor. The last read-through involved more revisions that I thought it would take, so Sunday night found me diligently working. I took a break and changed into pj’s and set my alarm so that when I quit …