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Sunday Snippet: The Here’s a Fun Story Edition
This is an incident that happened several years before my beloved friend Dee passed away, and I’m sharing it with you because I’ve been thinking of her so much lately. Dee would have a lot to say about what’s happening in our country right now and we’d be commiserating for sure. I remember Dee liked nothing better than a good embarrassment story particularly if it wasn’t hers, and this silly story was hands-down her favorite about me. She loved telling it to anyone we met up with and would laugh her butt off when she recounted my humiliation. So because I need to laugh right now and if she were…
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Author Spotlight: Leigh Ann Edwards Has a New Novel and a Giveaway!
We have a winner: DeeAnn Kraft, you are Leigh Ann’s Giveaway Winner! She will be in touch with you. Thanks to DeeAnn and everyone who stopped by! We love talking to our readers! I’m so happy when pal and fellow Tule author Leigh Ann Edwards stops by! Her novels are exciting and fresh and fun and I’m delighted to give her time to share her newest book, Druids’ Dark Curse, Book 5 in her Realm of Fractured Time series with Tule. Leigh Ann Edwards writes smoking hot romantic fantasy with badass heroines, alpha heroes, history, castles, and magic. She believes love is love, that villains should get their comeuppance…
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Sunday Snippet: The I Might Need a Break from Technology Edition
Do you ever wonder how we survived before computers and cell phones and social media? I can’t remember when I last dialed (literally dialed) a telephone or got up from the sofa to change the TV station. Or took a picture with an actual camera. When I last typed something on a typewriter or used a paper roadmap to figure out where I was going or opened a recipe book to find a new way to cook chicken. I google every thing now. Texting is second nature now, too, as is taking pictures with my phone, and FaceTiming with my sister. Life has changed so much in the last twenty-five…
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Author Spotlight: Welcome Romantasy Writer Leslie Ann Moore
I really love learning about new-to-me authors through social media, which is why I’m really loving Threads and BlueSky. That’s how I discovered author Leslie Ann Moore and I’m so happy to introduce you to Leslie and her magic today. Leslie Ann grew up in Los Angeles and has always been a storyteller. She is the author of the award-winning romantic fantasy Griffin’s Daughter Trilogy, the award-winning science-fantasy series The Nuetierra Chronicles, and with her husband, novelist and screenwriter Aaron Mason, Littoral Magic, the first book in the furry-friendly fantasy series All Oceans Aglow, now available for pre-order on Amazon. Leslie Ann is the past Vice President of The Greater…
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Sunday Snippet: The Gratitude Edition (Because I Need This)
And maybe you do, too? I’m trying very hard to take each day as it comes. To stay in the here-and-now, as my mom used to preach. It’s hard. I’m worrying about everything–the state of our country, Social Security, Medicare, what will happen to the folks who depend on Medicaid, our relationships with Canada, Mexico, and the rest of the world, how we ended up in this dreadful mess. How can we ever fix it? The gut-wrenching worry and fear is pointless, really, because none of it is anything I can control. It’s better to focus on the many things I have in my life that I can be thankful…
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Author Spotlight: Elsa Winckler Takes Us Back to Montana & Cowboys!
One of the great pleasures of being a Tule Publishing author is meeting so many wonderful authors. Elsa Winckler is one and I’m so delighted to have her with me today to tell us about her newest novel. I love the cover on this one and I can’t wait to read it! Oh, and be sure to check out her giveaway! Elsa has been reading love stories for as long as she can remember and when she ‘met’ the classic authors like Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry James, the Brontë sisters, etc. during her Honors studies, she was hooked for life. Although her three gown-up children rarely acknowledge the fact…
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Sunday Snippet: The I’m Still Learning Edition
It’s been a tough week for me, for the country, for the world, and I debated long and hard about what my column for today would be. I could so easily rant here–it’s my space, I can say what I want. But I don’t want this to be a political platform. I prefer to keep this about my writer life, my editor life, and some things about just being Nan. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram or Bluesky, you know where I land, so I opted to talk writing instead, because as my friend and fellow author Anne Stuart so aptly puts it: “Everything in my life is…
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Author Spotlight: Meet Mystery Writer Christopher Null
Congratulations, Kari N! You are the winner of an autographed copy of Christopher’s novel Cul-de-sac! He will be in touch with you! Thank to you and everyone who stopped by to meet Christopher! I’m excited to welcome fellow Tule author Christopher Null to the Author Spotlight today. I love great mysteries and thrillers and Christopher has just released a new one. He’s here to tell us about and he has a giveaway! Christopher Null is an award-winning writer and journalist who regularly contributes to Wired magazine, and who muses daily about wine and spirits on the website Drinkhacker, where he serves as editor in chief. His first novel, Half Mast, was…
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Author Spotlight: M.A. Guglielmo Is Back with Riftworld Book 2 & a Giveaway!!
M.A.’s Giveaway winner is Sherry Rivera! Sherry, M.A. will be in touch with you. Thanks so much for stopping by the blog! We appreciate all the readers who take the time to check out the Author Spotlights! I’m happy to welcome M.A. Guglielmo back to the Author Spotlight with the second book in her Riftworld paranormal romance series. M.A. Guglielmo is a neurosurgeon, mother of two awesome daughters, and a life-long fan of speculative fiction. Her Italian grandmother may or may not have been able to cast the evil eye on difficult neighbors, and Maria loves telling a good story, especially if magical curses and witty villains are involved. After…
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Sunday Snippet: The Am I Losing It? Edition
Talked my lake friend Mo the other day. We covered everything–health, weather, writing, reading, her lake news, my city news… After we hung up, I thought of something I’d meant to tell her, but the oven timer was dinging, supper was ready and I figured I’d tell her next time I talked to her. I’ve talked to her, but I still can’t remember what it was I wanted to tell her… and that seems to be a theme in our lives. I took a silly online test for dementia yesterday–the results of which were, “You have the memory of an elephant.” The test had no idea how frequently I say,…