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Blog postBooks are important. And they are available at many places: Amazon, Wal Mart, Costco, Barnes & Noble, on and on and on. It's so easy. One click, and the following day the book arrives without even leaving the comfort of the recliner. That's a statement on our modern age, which strives for the utmost convenience in everything from fast food to reading material.So why, oh why, would anyone bother to get in the car, drive to an independent bookstore, park, find a book, pay, and then have to go
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Blog postThe Girl with Chameleon Eyes, a YA paranormal romance. Yes, this is shameless promotion for my new book, available NOW for preorder on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, Kobo, and iTunes. It will be released on March 5, 2019. But how did this story hit my brain? Is it all fantasy? Is it too hot to handle?The real girl with chameleon eyes came into my life many years ago. Her eyes were blue at birth, as with most babies. They stayed blue--more stormy sky than cerulean--until she hit her teens. At an age w
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Blog postGive me YA any day—although I cross all lines of genre, age, and interest. After more years than I care to reveal, my prolific endeavors may—let me repeat that—may be on the way to success. If adversity teaches us to grow, I should be ten feet tall by now. Instead of five feet two inches. But enough about me.Growing up we had this grocery store chain, the A&P. Never did know what those initials meant. Artichokes & Plums? Anchovies & Persimmons? Whatever. At this point I’m going for A
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Blog postTomorrow is my birthday. I’m not too hung up on age, or shape, or the color of my hair. But there’s not a whole lot of literary happy in the celebration, because it marks yet another 365 days when I haven’t reached my publishing goals. I have a vision of me in a few years (eons, centuries, millennia?), pushing a walker with a canvas bag attached to the handle, loaded with my books to peddle. While I mutter around my clicking false teeth, “Want a nice young adult novel, Sonny?” Sure, Grandma Mose
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Blog postOf Tatas and Tats/ @LaurelHouck As a young teen, I spent countless forevers bemoaning my bra size, feeling like a total boob…or lack thereof. I resorted to drawing in cleavage with an eyebrow pencil. I ordered (in a plain brown wrapper) a pink device to squeeze while I muttered, “I must, I must, I must increase my bust.” I soon discovered boys didn’t really care. There were other parts that interested them even more. But I digress. As spring has morphed into summer, that restless stirring for so
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Blog postI hate to fly. Maybe being a bird would be okay. Spreading my wings and gliding over the river at sunrise, diving under a bridge, landing on the protected limb of an apple tree in blossom--these things might work. Might. And birds eat a lot, unlike the old adage, "You eat like a bird," meaning not very much. I like to eat. But flying in an airplane, not okay. There's the whole trust-the-pilot thing, not to mention storms, malfunctions, and terrorism. More than that is the awful, distur
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Blog postI've climbed a lot of mountains. Both physical and metaphorical.It's hard to impart the beauty of hiking up Mt. Sinai at 2:00 AM, scrabbling up the final steep rocks, and reaching the summit at dawn. Red tints the landscape with bright hues, so that even the dun-colored stones and endless sand are glowing.There's reaching the end of the Inca Trail, rounding that last bend at the summit of the Andes, and viewing the splendor of Machu Picchu. Ancient stones testify to the civilization that once fl
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