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Sue’s 2024 Year in Books
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Sue Merrell
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Great News Town (A Jordan Daily News Mystery, #1)
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Full Moon Friday (A Jordan Daily News Mystery, #3)
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One Shoe Off (A Jordan Daily News Mystery, #2)
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Laughing for a Living
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Faith of Our Fathers: The Story of Our Family
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“Losing a mate to death is devastating but it's not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it's an insult beyond comparison.”
― Great News Town
― Great News Town
“I don’t know what makes people start wanting each other any more than I know what makes it stop all of a sudden. I just know that when you lose it once, you’ll never take it for granted again”
― Great News Town
― Great News Town
“Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.”
― One Shoe Off
― One Shoe Off
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Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author Game, Round 2
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| Cozy Mystery Corner : Cozy Titles A-Z | 1388 | 631 | Jan 21, 2023 03:59AM |
“Reporters can't douse flames or soothe burns. They have no control over the horrors they witness. But if they can overcome fear and physical obstacles and wrestle the monster to the page before the sun comes up, it's a victory -- not just for the newspaper staff but for all those sleeping soundly who will find the facts at their fingertips and all those victims whose suffering won't go unnoticed.”
― Great News Town
― Great News Town
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.”
― T is for Trespass
― T is for Trespass
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I'm surprised that less than 400 have signed up to win a free copy of One Shoe Off. Last year, more than a thousand registered for Great News Town. But there are lots of books available for giveaway, including "Kinsey and Me" by one of my favorite authors, Sue Grafton. How's that for competition?
My new book, One Shoe Off, is featured in the Next Big Thing Blog Chain. Check it out on my blog, http://laughingforaliving.blogspot.com The chain will give you links to other author blogs so you can see what they are up to as well.
Friends, the giveaway for One Shoe Off is now open. Just go to giveaways and click enter to win. I'll be sending out five copies. Why shouldn't you receive one?
Just wanted to let everyone know that the first chapter of Great News Town is now posted on the serial site. I'm taking a tip from the time-honored serialized books of Dickens and others. http://greatnewsserial.blogspot.com
Great News TownGreat News Town will be available as an online serial starting tomorrow.
http://www.greatnewstown.blogspot.com
I've decided to release my book, Great News Town, as an online serial. I call it a Serial Killer Serial.The first installment will be posted June 26 on a dedicated website
http://www.greatnewsserial.blogspot.com
You can go to the site now and sign up to receive your installments by email or check the site out after June 26. Enjoy!
Take a leap of faith, today, friends and download Great News Town, absolutely free at the Kindle Store. Today only, February 29. An opportunity like this only comes once every four years!
Thought my book reading friends might enjoy today's poem from Writers' AlmanacUsed Book
by Julie Kane
What luck—an open bookstore up ahead
as rain lashed awnings over Royal Street,
and then to find the books were secondhand,
with one whole wall assigned to poetry;
and then, as if that wasn't luck enough,
to find, between Jarrell and Weldon Kees,
the blue-on-cream, familiar backbone of
my chapbook, out of print since '83—
its cover very slightly coffee-stained,
but aging (all in all) no worse than flesh
though all those cycles of the seasons since
its publication by a London press.
Then, out of luck, I read the name inside:
The man I thought would love me till I died.
"Used Book" by Julie Kane, from Jazz Funeral. © Story Line Press, 2009. Reprinted with permission. (buy now)
