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Snowed – Part 42
Originally posted on Dellani Oakes:
Mike has a short chat with Miss Parker, who looks extremely upset. She runs off to meet her friends, one of whom gives him the evil eye. Steve watches and asks him who she is. Mike explains. “Damn. But you never. . . .” “No! Oh, hell, no. I never…
When the Clean Reader App Goes Haywire
Originally posted on The Opening Sentence:
For those who are pure of heart and chaste of tongue, the Clean Reader app is a godsend. (Sorry that should be ‘is heaven sent;’ can’t have anything blasphemous.) Clean Reader removes naughty words from ebooks. So if the words ****, ****, **** and **** offend you then Clean…
Origins of the Malandanti – update
Originally posted on The Opening Sentence:
Who were (are) the Malandanti? I came across them when I was researching witchcraft for the second Toten Herzen novel. To understand the Malandanti you must first learn about the Benandanti. Benandanti means ‘good walkers’ (Benandante is the singular) and were a group of people from the Friuli region…
…another Celt pal comes to visit the blog… David Williams… ceud mile failte…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…a neat wee diversion here for yeez in the form of a Guest Blog post from a fellow-Celt, Author David Williams… today I’m bestowing on him Honorary Scotsmanship, for reasons yeez’ll quickly understand as yeez read his piece below… enjoy… Master Williams in his highly effective undercover camouflage as a…
…sweet dreams are made of this… ev’rybody’s got one…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg …it’s not that long ago when Master Richard Gere and that nice Julia Roberts lassie romanced the heck out of us in Pretty Woman… quite apart from the fabulous theme tune by the incomparable Roy Orbison, there’s a bit at the end of the movie that sticks with me……
Problem Thinker
Originally posted on Indigo Sea Press Blog:
Is it not imperative that writer’s think, or does the thinking just cause problems with the writing? This is a very serious question to which we don’t want answers. Is the admonition, think before you write a hinderance or the answer? On the off-chance of shedding too much light on…
THE ROMANCE REVIEWS 4th Anniversary Party
Originally posted on Dena Rogers:
It’s a month long celebration and I’m there! Well, I’ll be there tomorrow for a Question & Answer type game. I’m offering up an ebook copy of Drive Me Sane to the person who wins. And along with me, there are hundreds of other authors with prizes galore! Head on over to The…
…not one, but two upcoming book launches for my dear friend, Authoress, Nancy Jardine…
Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:
…it’s a delight when the ‘usual suspects’ drop by the blog to say ‘Hi’ and give me a heads-up on what they’re up to (and I promise not to tell the police)… the prolific Authoress, Nancy Jardine, has two pending titles, which you can read about here… enjoy… ? Hello…
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