Friday, April 22, 2022

BOOK: Blue Lake, Time After Time by Carol Ann Kauffman


In honor of the tenth anniversary of it's first publication, I'm re-releasing my first novel, Blue Lake, with this beautiful new cover and an updated edition.

After I finished writing Blue Lake in 2010, I did the typical rounds of sending it to the major publishing houses. I have  lovely letters from Loretta Banks and Elizabeth Barrett, telling me how much they liked it but couldn't use it at the time. Each rejection letter experience took months. I was not a young woman and I wasn't getting any younger. So I decided to go with Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and released it on January 21, 2012 and never looked back. Thirty books later, it's still the best move I made.

The premise of Kindle was a reader's dream come true. Books from all over the world, from new ones to old ones, all available to read on your kindle device, or any device using the kindle app. And you didn't have to buy more bookcases to store them!


Blue Lake

The love Nicole and Richard share is strong and has survived many lifetimes, but never without sacrifice and heartache. Some call it reincarnation. Some call it fate. But whatever it is, it keeps them apart until they're ready to jump in and help each other on this amazing journey called life.

This time Fate rubs her hands together with glee and laughs as she plays a cruel joke on them by placing them on different continents, twenty years apart.

Nicole was born in Ohio. She doesn't remember her past life. She had a career, got married, and was later widowed. Richard entered life twenty years later in the UK and became an actor. But fate cannot keep them apart. What they have is more than love, more than attraction, or devotion. They are eternal soulmates.

When they finally do meet in Albuquerque, they remember their love and feel overwhelming joy, but the twenty-year age difference plants the painful thorns of doubt, worry, and fear. Their unlikely but undeniable love pulls them closer and closer, while careers, family, and other relationships push them farther and farther apart.

The ten-year period they spend together in this lifetime takes them on many exciting adventures from beautiful New Mexico, across the Atlantic to England, Ireland, Italy, and Aruba. Nicole and Richard have an incredibly strong connection, but they must face not only happiness and joy but the dark side of life and love as well.

Come. Start the adventure with Richard and Nicole, where everything changes, but love remains the same.
Are you ready? Jump!

Amazon Link:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071G6V9K/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1










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Thursday, April 21, 2022

ENTERTAINMENT: The Take (Netflix)


This was a surprise of a good movie. A petty criminal (Richard Madden) gets involved in a terrorist scheme in France when he steals a woman’s (Charlotte LeBon) bag and discovers it’s a bomb. It goes off, killing four people. Now he’s on the run as a terrorist, when he’s really only a two-bit thief and a pickpocket. 

Idris Elba plays a CIA with very strong James-Bond-tendencies who pursues the pickpocket and convinces him to work together.

This film was released in Europe as Bastille Day.







 










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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

BOOK REVIEW: The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson


 




Reminds Me of Agatha Christie


Mystery st Underwood House by the talented Clara benson is an Angela Marchmont Mystery. Lady Sleuth Angela is called to her friend's home, Underwood House, to investigate the deaths of three family members who may or may not have been murdered.

Relatives are dying off  left and right and Mrs. Underwood wanted to make sure her husband isn't the next victim. 

A classic British country manor who-done-it than reminds me of Agatha Christie.

Great characters, a stately country manor, and a plethora of suspects.
Excellent!












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Sunday, April 17, 2022

SCHEDULE: April18 - 22, 2022


HAPPY EASTER!!!
 
Mon., April 18 - ART:
Avian of the Atomic Age
by Texas Collage Artist Parker Kaufman
Tues., April 19 - BOOK REVIEW:
Mystery at Underwood House 
by Clara Benson
Wed., April 20 - ART:
 American Painter William Stanley Hazeltine
Thurs., April 21 - ENTERTAINMENT:
The Take
(Netflix)
Fri., April 22 - BOOK:
Blue Lake
Time After Time
by Carol Ann Kauffman











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