How many times has your life touched history? Of course, it isn’t history then. It’s the present. But looking back, have you ever been in a place where history was being made? Thinking back on my life, I realize most of the time I’ve viewed history on the television or heard it on the radio. […]
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When I wrote Kentucky Cowboy, I researched the Professional Bull Riders and became a fan. Last weekend my husband and I attended the Bass Pro Chute Out, in Louisville, KY, at the KFC Yum! Center. Instead of a basketball court or the stage where Fleetwood Mac performed a few nights earlier, the floor was covered
For a high school book report, I read Katherine by Anya Seton. Published in 1954, the novel transported me into a world I’ve loved ever since. We were big into “theme” back then in English class. Katherine was not simply a romance or an adventure; it described the personal growth of the main character. Near
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“Finish your unfinished manuscripts,” the psychic at the psychic fair told me several years ago. That was right after I’d been rejected again from a major publisher, a particularly disheartening rejection. In the 90’s, I’d started two stories that continued to “collect dust” in my hard drive. In fact, after writing Tangled Memories, I put
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Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, age 68, of Princeton, Minnesota, passed away July 6, 2007. Author of The Flame and the Flower and The Wolf and the Dove, and eleven other bestselling novels, she is considered by many to be the creator of the romance genre. Barnes and Noble reports: “In 1972, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss sent a
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Last weekend, I spotted a status posted on Facebook by my cousin. He was in his hometown cleaning his parents’ house and getting it ready to put on the market. I went through the same thing in 2004 after my mom died. I finally put my parents’ home of over 50 years up for sale
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I answered that question for an upcoming interview earlier this week. It made me stop and think. Why do I like to write? My favorite quote from high school days came from John Keats’ poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. I remember studying it in senior English class. In the second stanza, Keats wrote, “Heard
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Readers don’t know what a hard time we novelists have writing all of those great books for them to read. They just don’t understand how difficult it is to work in a home where pets live. For one thing, cats love to walk on your keyboard. They love to rub up against you and flick
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The McClains of Legend, Tennessee When Jan, Janet, Maddie, and I wrote our first novellas for the Ladies of Legend series, my hero was Martin McClain. Something about his dedication to the town of Legend—to the history there, and the fact that generations of his family had been upstanding citizens—made me love this handsome, slightly
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy Although I embraced change when I introduced my new website and blog, I’m often slow to accept it. I take time to warm up to change. Like my little corgi that balks when I pull on her leash,
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