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Meet Hidden Springs Cat #3
A cat will do what it wants when it wants, and there’s not a thing you can do about it. ~Frank Perkins Are you a cat lover? If you follow my blog or join the conversation on my Facebook page, you know...
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First Lines and First Winner
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 (New Kings James Version) I guess when you decide to write a post about the first lines of books, you can’t go completely wrong...
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Behind the Scenes of a Character
My Hidden Springs Mystery book giveaway here on One Writer’s Journal is ongoing as an early celebration of the coming release of Hidden Springs 3, Murder Is No Accident (coming in March). That’s why I...
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What if We Have an Old House…?
Often when I’m doing an interview, one of the most popular questions will be how or where do I get my ideas for stories. Sometimes the interviewer is more specific and asks where I got the idea for a...
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Where Did You Get that Name?
I’ve been giving you a behind the scenes look at how I go about beginning a new book. First I let you peek at a character sketch for my new character in Murder Is No Accident, Maggie Greene. Sunday I...
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Every Story Needs a Place
“Oh, the places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss might have been giving a pep talk to people about to start new phases of their lives, but it would be just as easy to say this about a person entering a bookstore...
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Why I Hate February
February 1, 1966 Jocie Brook here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I’ll have to keep Dad from seeing that headline. He would sit me down and give me a long talk about hating any day. He’d tell me...
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Fitting Together the Pieces
Quilts connect the past with the present and the future. Since I let Wednesday slip by without thinking about it being Wednesday, I came up a post short on One Writer’s Journal this week. That happens...
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Football and Commercials
Did you watch the Super Bowl? While basketball is my favorite sport to watch, I sometimes like football too, especially the Super Bowl. Even if you don’t like football, you’re supposed to like the...
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Turning on the Lights
I’m guessing that hardly any of you can remember when you didn’t have electricity. I don’t. There have been those times when we have had power outages for one reason or another. Two times in the last...
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Another Hidden Springs Mystery on the Way
For an author, there’s nothing quite like holding in your hand that book that you’ve spent many long hours writing. You started with a shimmer of an idea. You added characters. You built a setting....
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Giving Away Books This Way and That
How many ways can you give away books? I’m not sure, but I must be trying to find out today! With the release date for my new Hidden Springs Mystery, Murder Is No Accident, rapidly approaching, the...
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Romance Is in the Air
Did anybody ever carve your initials plus other initials in a heart on a tree? Or perhaps you did the carving. Maybe that’s an old fashioned way of being romantic that has gone by the wayside as maybe...
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Romance in Nowheresville KY
My giveaway to celebrate the March release of my new Hidden Springs mystery, Murder Is No Accident, is still going on. Check out all the details on my News & Events Page. For fun, I asked readers...
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First Love at Any Age
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love. (Eric Kandel) It’s been great reading some of your memories of...
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Typing with Nine Fingers
Some days it doesn’t pay to take a walk. First off this morning, March definitely came in like a lion around here with storms and winds. Lightning. Thunder. Even hail. And pouring rain. Over 2 inches...
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Hidden Springs Celebration Winners
I enjoyed every story you shared with me when you entered my celebration giveaway for Murder Is No Accident. Some of the first love stories were memories from when you were kids in elementary school....
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A Cow Named Blondie
March 6, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Well, maybe it would be better to say Holly County, Kentucky. We don’t have cows on Main Street, Hollyhill. At least not often. Of...
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First Love Prizes
And so the prizes are winging their way to the prize winners, Amy and Cathy and Peggy. Still haven’t heard from Lou Ann even though I’ve sent two e-mails. May have to draw a new winner for that 3rd...
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Mystery Picture Time!!
It’s mystery picture game time. I’m a little late with the post, but a couple of granddaughters decided to spend the night. That slows Grammy down. Actually a grandson and some friends are camping...
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