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Bargain Book Alert (UK Style)!

Are you British? Do you read ebooks?  Then this the place for you! Several of my books are being promoted this month and having promotional pricing to go with it. PAYING THE PIPER is only 99p (in eBook form) this month over […]

Mystery Box

Last year, I received an interesting request from a reader.  The person sent me a check and asked me to send them a box of autographed books, didn’t matter which ones.  The person wanted to be surprised. I thought this was cool […]

Hump Day: Fruit & Veg

I drive Julie to distraction with this one. She’ll hold up a radish or something and say, “Will you eat this and if so, how will you eat it?” I have issues with fruit and vegetables. I don’t know where it stems […]

SHELF LIFE: Mulling

“What are you doing?” “Something.” “Well, it doesn’t look like something.” I had a lot of conversations like this in school with teachers that usually led to one of those “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” kind of lectures. Sadly, my footwear […]

HUMP DAY: Bucket List

I first met Royston fourteen years stealing melon from a pig.  Six months old and malnourished he was an odd looking longhaired dachshund, but Julie and I had an instant connection to him.  Since then Royston has become my sidekick…or have I […]