Yay for October
The
reason I’m yaying for October is ‘cause I get to visit California and see my
friends and kids and one of my grandsons. In other to see the other grandson
and his wife and children, I’ll have to go to North Carolina, which is considerably
farther from Roswell, New Mexico, than California is. I aim to take a good
picture of the house in which Daisy and her family live while I’m in Pasadena.
September
was a pretty good month for yours truly, if you discount the fact that the physical
therapist tried to kill me. With needles. Took me nearly a month to recover
from his “dry needling” of my left glute, dang it, and he set my
for-the-back-pain exercises back a long, dreary way. However, I can now walk
the wieners and do exercises again (whoopee, but you gotta do what you gotta
do).
I’ll
get in touch with the folks who won copies of books in September in individual
e-mails. If you’d like to enter October’s contest, I’ll be giving away audio
copies of ANCIENT SPIRITS, in which Daisy Gumm Majesty and Harold Kincaid
travel to Egypt and Turkey because everyone (except Daisy) thinks the trip will
help heal her grief over losing her husband, Billy. Naturally, things go wrong,
but Sam Rotondo rushes to Turkey and tries to save the day. He doesn’t quite
succeed, but the day is saved anyway. Here’s the audio cover for ANCIENT
SPIRITS, which is remarkably akin to the e-book and paperback cover for the
same book. There’s even a link if you’re burning to hear it and don’t want to
wait to see if you’ve won a copy. Denice Stradling, who’s narrated all of my
Daisy books so far, does a terrific job, as usual, on this one:
Naturally,
since hardbacks are expensive, feel free to purchase the e-book or the
paperback. I’m not greedy. Much.
Oh!
And if you’ve ever wondered what the White side-treadle sewing machine on which
Daisy makes all of her clothes looks like, here it is. This is my machine, and
I actually used to sew clothes on it for my daughters and me:
In
the meantime, I’ve been madly editing Frontier Fiction books for Five Star and
been having a whale of a time doing it. I love editing. It’s ever so much
easier than writing, although I wish I had more time to write. But one has to
earn a living for oneself and one’s hounds, don’t you know. I’ve been able to
edit for some wonderful western authors and consider myself privileged because
of it.
One
of these days, however, I must finish the next Daisy book, SPIRITS UNITED (in
which I murder a librarian, but only because Lynne Welch, former RWA Librarian
of the Year and overall librarian extraordinaire, asked me to). I will finish
it. Promise.
If
you’re interested in visiting my woefully out-of-date web site, please do so at:
http://aliceduncan.net/ . And if you’d
like to be Facebook buds, just go to my Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/alice.duncan.925
Thank
you!
I haven't heard too many people say they love editing Alice! So you go girl!
ReplyDeleteI am so interested in this book. Thanks for highlighting something new for me.
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