Friday, April 7, 2023

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

 



Blue Lake is the first book I ever published. It will always hold a special place in my heart. 

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-five  books later, it's still the best move I ever 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 6, 2023

TV TIME: Mayor of Kingstown (Netflix)



Oh, I think this is over and I am so sad. I really like Jeremy Renner. He is an outstanding actor. In this 2-season, addictive  wild thrill ride with no seatbelt or safe word, Jeremy plays Mike McKlusky, a power broker between the prison system in Kingstown (which is like the only thing the town is known for), the police department, and the general public. 

Is he really the mayor of Kindstown? No. 
Is he even an elected official? No.
Could anybody else in town, in the state, maybe even the country do what Mike McLusky does on a daily basis? No. 

It is thrilling crime fiction from the same guy who gave us Yellowstone and its excellent prequels, Taylor Sheridan, and 
Hugh Dillon. 
  


Jeremy, as I am sure you are all aware, had a very bad snowplow accident on New Year's Day of this year. He is at home recuperating. We send our sincere wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to Jeremy and his family. If anybody can come all the way back from a tragic accident, it's Jeremy. He is a real life superhero.  





If he decides to return to acting, we will wait for him. 
And if he decides to do something else, like fix Congress, or save the whales, or power broker peace in the Ukraine, or whatever makes him happy, we will love and support him. 








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Tuesday, April 4, 2023

BOOK REVIEW: Hide by Tracy Clark




Hide by Tracy Clark introduces Detective Harriet Foster, a black female officer just returning to duty after the loss of her son. New assignment in a new precinct with a new partner. Foster jumps right in to a murder investigation that turned into a serial killer case. Part psychological thriller, part police procedural, and part social commentary on our screwed up society. Well written. Great characters. A good read. 








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Monday, April 3, 2023

ART: The Mud Maid by Pete and Sue Hill














 







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Sunday, April 2, 2023

SCHEDULE: April 3-7, 2023



Mon., April 3 - ART:
The Mud Maid
by Pete and Sue Hill

Tues., April 4 - BOOK REVIEW:
Hide
by Tracy Clark

Wed., April 5 - INTERVIEW:
Internationally Bestselling Fantasy Author
James Quinlan Meservy

Thurs., April 6 - TV TIME:
Mayor of Kingstown

Fri., April 7 - BOOK:
Blue Lake 
Time After Time Book One
by Carol Ann Kauffman








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