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What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. This line from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet works well for flowers, but not so much for an author’s name, especially when it comes to book marketing! Take for example, The Cuckoo’s Calling, a crime fiction novel by …[ read more ]
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A Writer’s Dream
I’ve always dreamed of away to the mountains to write for an extended period of time. The closest I’ve ever come was attending writers’ conferences at Mt. Hermon. Now, I’ve been blessed with the use of a friend’s home in the Santa Cruz Mountains for the past month! A dream come true! I finished the …[ read more ]
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The Bronze Dagger
A ten-year-old dream will soon become a reality! About ten years ago my husband and I obsessed (okay, only I obsessed) over a 3,000-year-old bronze dagger we saw at an antiquities store. Teaching 6th grade social studies at the time, I imagined showing my students the ancient dagger while teaching them about Hammurabi and Ancient …[ read more ]
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