Author: klross35
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Interview with Judy Smith
Q. Can you share the inspiration behind the Golden Years Glitch? Specifically how you came up with names and the storylines? A. Now, I must admit this was a bit of a revenge novel. Some of what happened to Andi, the protagonist, occurred in my life. I found out that my partner of many years…
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Rabbit Moon by Jan D. Payne
Book Description (Amazon.ca) They say you can’t go back home, but Marin Sinclair, end-of-life doula, doesn’t expect her life to be in danger when she answers a mysterious plea for help from a long-ago friend and returns to Dinetah, the Navajo Nation. Her past there holds memories she is reluctant to confront, but what about…
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Interview with W. Michael Farmer
Q. Did you have to do a lot of research before writing the story? With all the information out there, how did you decide on a time period? A: Yes, I did a lot of research and have a large collection of histories on Geronimo but relatively few on Chato. Many of the information nuggets…
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Desperate Warrior by W. Michael Warrior
Book Description (from Amazon.ca) In the untamed pages of history, the saga of Pedes-klinje-known to the Mexicans as the relentless Chato-blazes a trail through the blood-soaked annals of the Apache wars. From 1877, his name was etched in the fiery heart of battle-a figure brimming with ferocity, hunger for power, and a disdain for peace with…
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Not Quite a Scandal by Bliss Bennet
Book Description (Amazon.ca) Outspoken Quaker Bathsheba Honeychurch knows how difficult it is for an unmarried woman to successfully champion political change. Her solution? Wed best friend Ash Griffin as soon as he comes of age and begin remaking the world. But when Ash’s urbane, aloof cousin arrives with inconceivable news, Sheba’s future dreams are suddenly…
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Interview with Jane Little Botkin
Q. Why did you decide to write your story? A. I had always thought that I might tell this story, mainly focusing on the pageant part of the narrative. It wasn’t until my mother passed, and I was able to look back in time, that I had the maturity and insight to see how what…
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The Pink Dress: A Memoir of a Reluctant Beauty Queen
Book Description (Amazon.ca) Growing up in West Texas, Jane Little Botkin didn’t have designs on becoming a beauty queen. But not long after joining a pageant on a whim in college, she became the first protégé of El Paso’s Richard Guy and Rex Holt, known as the “Kings of Beauty”—just as the 1970’s counterculture movement…
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Sister Lumberjack
Book Description (From Amazon.ca) Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left…
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