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Friday, April 9, 2010New book!See? Isn't it pretty? I'm not sure yet when it will be out, but The Wild Rose Press is going to issue Home to Singing Trees and this is its cover. I'll talk more about it later. Promise!Well, okay, I guess maybe later--I can't get the picture to load! Have a great weekend! Labels: Home to Singing Trees, The Wild Rose Press posted by Liz Flaherty # 4:22 PM 0 Comments
Sunday, March 28, 2010Going back...I have a Kindle! I put it off for a long while because of how much I love the feel, scent, and sight of a paper-and-ink book in my hands. But then one of my girls, Tahne, got one. And she loved it. A friend got a Nook. And she loved it. I looked at the mountains of books lying on nearly every flat surface in my house, not to mention the bookshelves. And I didn't love it. It was time, I decided. Oh, yes! said the roommate, who has no appreciation for the number of books I have...everywhere. But, I argued, I didn't want to spend the money. I'll buy it for you, said the roommate. He really has no appreciation. So I said okay.I ordered it, it came, and I looked at it for a couple of days. "I don't know what to buy," I said, "without running my fingers over the spines, looking at the covers, and reading the blurbs." You can do that with the Kindle, except for the spine part. But it's different. Way different. So I bought my own book. Boom! In about a minute, there it was: The Debutante's Second Chance. Wow. But I didn't, you know, want to read it. I needed to buy something to read. A friend, Janet Dean, had a new book out--The Substitute Bride. So I bought it for the Kindle. Boom! It's a mail-order-bride story, a good one, and it was fun to read. No, it was a lot of fun to read. I took my time over it, relished it, loved every word. I was heartbroken last year when the only bookstore close enough for me to go to closed (I won't go to Waldenbooks anymore, but that's a whole 'nother story) and I had to buy most of my books at Wal-Mart or the grocery store. Or else I ordered them from Amazon and waited. Did I mention Boom! Since getting the Kindle, I've read Robyn Carr's new one, a lovely one by Marta Perry, The Five Little Peppers Grown Up (yes, really), and then, once again, I was stumped. So I bought one by Jenny Crusie, an old one I thought I might have missed. The Cinderella Deal. Yes, I had missed it. And it's lovely. One of her very best and very funniest, and I'm taking my time over it, relishing it, loving every word. I didn't feel the spine, can't smell the paper-and-ink, but you know what? I can still laugh out loud at the humor and feel the tenderness slipping along my arms. Walking through the house, I passed a flat surface without a stack of books on it. It was dusty. Oh, no, what have I done? Labels: Cinderella Deal, Janet Dean, Jenny Crusie, Kindle, Substitute Bride posted by Liz Flaherty # 2:16 PM 3 Comments
Monday, January 11, 2010Happy New Year!Lord, I have no imagination, do I? Well, having admitted that, I hope you had wonderful holidays and that the New Year really is happy.I've been busy since we talked. I finished a book and sent it off to my editor. I hope he likes it. (A mantra I have repeated approximate 1000 times since hitting "send" and shipping the manuscript off.) Now I've dragged an unfinished story out from under the bed and am blowing dust bunnies off of it. Sometimes when I go back and look at something I wrote a year or two ago, I repeat another mantra--you know the one: "What were you thinking?" But not this time. This time, I'm thinking, "Hmmm..." and I'm really liking it. I've also been sewing up a storm. I sew gowns and blankets for hospitals and nursing homes. I don't sew all that well, but I enjoy it. I hope the bright colored gowns and warm quilts offer joy to someone else, too. I spend way too much time on the computer doing things besides writing, but I've been visiting a few blogs lately and enjoying them. One of them is Word Wranglers. Pay them a visit. They're a fun bunch. The book of the month for January is Forbidden Falls by Robyn Carr. It's another Virgin River story and what a good one it is. Enjoy--and if you've never read her books before, she has a long and invariably good backlist. Labels: Forbidden Falls, Robyn Carr, Word Wranglers blog posted by Liz Flaherty # 6:55 PM 0 Comments
Monday, November 30, 2009Say yes to mammograms... Okay, I know this is pink. I know it looks dumb on this blog, but, hey...we're talking about breasts here. Boobs. Jugs. Tatas. Other euph--I've forgotten how to spell that word--that are even less elegant. And we're talking about breast cancer. You know, that nasty disease represented by that ribbon over there? We've got some "experts" saying don't bother with mammograms, don't examine yourself. I'd venture to say most of them have not buried their mothers or sisters or daughters. Most of them don't know and celebrate the survivors the way those of us do who knew and loved women who didn't survive. There are some places to look at. One of them is Cheryl Reavis's blog. http://cherylreavis.blogspot.com/ Another is Kathleen Eagle's discussion on the http://ridingwiththetopdown.blogspot.com/ Look at these. Read up on survivors--see how many of them recommend you skip this year's mammogram. posted by Liz Flaherty # 7:24 PM 0 Comments
Thursday, November 26, 2009Happy Thanksgiving!I hope you and yours are having a glorious day. I haven't been here to blog in forever and I'm sorry about that; I've also accepted that I'm never going to be very good at it. This is only one among many, many things I'm not good at, and I'm okay with that, too.I'm on the wind-down on the story I'm working on. I've got about 20 pages or so, a chapter and some, and I'll be able to type "The End" and get started on one my favorite parts of writing: the rewrites. Where I go over the whole manuscript and tie up the loose ends (I have lots of those) and take out the unnecessary "thats" and "she saids." I make sure the secondary characters end the story with the same names they started it with and try to keep eye and hair colors consistent while I'm at it. But first I have to write the last 20 pages, the moment of hopelessness (which I'm in the middle of; it lasts an hour or so in the book but takes me a week to write!), the "aha" moment. I have say goodbye to people I've come to know and love and I have to be convincing about it. It's hard. And I'm okay with it. My kids are all grown up, and today we're not seeing any of them. It's kind of lonely with just the roommate and me and the cats. But everyone's healthy. I think they're all happy. So I'm okay with it. I'm glad I didn't have to work today, sorry I'm working tomorrow. But I have a good job in a time when there aren't that many of them, and I like it more often than not, so...yeah, I'm okay with it. I'll leave you with that, I think. You're a grownup so you know life isn't always wonderful or perfect or even happy, but if, most of the time, you're okay with it, well, you're ahead of the game. Have a great day. In case I don't make it back--you know how I am--have a Merry Christmas, too. Labels: I'm okay with that., Thanksgiving posted by Liz Flaherty # 10:33 AM 0 Comments
Monday, July 13, 2009Happy SummerJuly's such a time of celebration, isn't it? I hope you're enjoying it. We are. We had a nice 4th of July with my extended family and just came back from General Butler State Park in Kentucky, where we spent the weekend with the boyfriend's side. All of my kids and five of the six grands were in one spot, which is just about as happy as it gets for me.RWA's National Conference is this week in Washington D. C. this week. I wish I was there, as I always do, but it's never at a good time or place for me. I went one year, when it was in Chicago, and I loved it, but I wonder how it would be now. I'm so much older and my interests are different. Books of the month--I've gotten away from that, haven't I, so I'll name a few. First up is Cheryl St. John's The Preacher's Wife. I'm less than halfway through it and forcing myself to put it down between chapters so that it doesn't end too soon. I've also been reading Mary Balogh's newest series. While I freely admit to preferring her shorter books, the long ones are wonderful. I've been reading Carla Kelly's as soon as they come out--I think the ink's still wet when I start reading--and loving every talented word of them. Have a great July. Find something to celebrate! Labels: Carla Kelly, Cheryl St. John, Mary Balogh posted by Liz Flaherty # 7:12 PM 0 Comments
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