We had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 o’clock yesterday morning because we had to be at the trust attorney’s office in Snowflake at 8. We originally formed our family trust in Florida back in 2021, but there are quite a few differences between Arizona law and Florida law. The easiest thing […]
I said in yesterday’s blog that I planned to put a clamp on the gas line of the Chrysler convertible to secure it to the fuel pump. I mentioned then that it would be a simple project for anybody else, but with me doing something mechanical like that, anything could go wrong. I’m happy to […]
So, what’s going on in our life? All kinds of things. Some of them good and some of them not so good. The good news is that I talked to Kenny yesterday, and while he is still in pain, he says he is slowly getting better. But he’s off work for a week and bored […]
Thank you to everyone who sent emails or comments about son-in-law Kenny’s gallbladder surgery yesterday. Tiffany said they did a laparoscopic procedure, and afterward the doctor said it was in pretty bad shape. They had a bit of trouble controlling his pain after the surgery, but they got it taken care of. Tiffany stayed at […]
One of the nice things about the writing lifestyle is that we can set our own schedule. Sometimes I will spend most of the day at my computer working on a book, and Terry will be just as busy editing and proofreading. Other days, we may be busy with things around the house and not […]
I had to laugh when I saw a meme on Facebook yesterday that showed an electric car stopped on the side of the road being charged by a huge generator. Someone commented that it didn’t take a crystal ball to see where this whole electric car thing was going and that it would never work. […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. In your Author Spotlight, you ask people if they are a plotter or a pantster, and I’ve also heard them refer to being a planster. I keep trying to figure out what […]
Before I do anything else today, I want to congratulate our granddaughter Destiny on another achievement. As I’ve shared with you before, while attending her last year of high school, Destiny was also attending cosmetology classes at Northland Pioneer College here in Show Low. She graduated from both in the same week, and yesterday she […]
Kenny and I were planning to go to the gun show at the Show Low Elks Lodge yesterday, but it turned out to be a family affair. Tiffany wanted to go with us, and then granddaughter Hailey called to say she would meet us at the lodge with grandbaby Tyler. And just as we all […]
We invited daughter Tiffany and her husband Kenny, along with granddaughter Hailey, her husband Toby, and great-grandbaby Tyler, over for dinner yesterday. It was going to be a simple affair of hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill, along with baked beans and homemade potato salad, but Terry still had to run to the grocery […]
Well, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that we didn’t get any rain yesterday. The good news is that the temperature was in the upper 70s, and I took advantage of it to finally get much of the grass mowed in our backyard. It needed it because it was turning […]
The temperature has been hovering around 90° for several days now, and we have not been doing much outside. But it was slightly cooler yesterday, and we took advantage of it. Earlier, during the hottest part of the day, I knocked out another thousand words in my new Tinder Street book. Meanwhile, Terry was busy […]
Well, another one is done! Yesterday afternoon, the e-book of Big Lake Homecoming went live on Amazon. I had hoped to have it out before now, but one of my proofreaders, Roberta, has been out of commission for a while. The book came in at just over 75,000 words, not counting front matter and the […]
I have been busy getting things done for the release of my latest book, Big Lake Homecoming. After Terry edited and proofread the last chapters, I sent them off to Judy and Roberta to go through. I got Judy’s back and made her suggested corrections, and now I am waiting for Roberta’s. I hope to […]
After the usual routine yesterday morning of feeding critters, posting the blog to Facebook, and answering emails, we made a trip to Walmart to pick up a prescription. Back home, I spent some time doing research for the next book in the Tinder Street series while Terry did some banking and paperwork until it cooled […]
We are currently down in the Apache Junction area visiting with Terry’s parents and sisters. Yesterday we had an early Easter dinner with them, with lots of delicious food and great conversation around the table. Family times are definitely the best times. Though this area had triple-digit temperatures for most of March, breaking one record […]
My new book, Debt Collector, went live on Amazon yesterday evening. I uploaded the book at 7:08, and in just over an hour it was available to download or to read on Kindle Unlimited. This is my 62nd book, and the 14th in my John Lee Quarrels series about a small town cop in the […]
Yesterday evening I finished Debt Collector, the 14th book in my John Lee Quarrels series about a small-town Florida deputy. I started writing the book on January 12th and finished March 14th, which was two months and two days. Of course, I didn’t write every one of those days because we have a life, and […]
Is it too early in the week to quote Shakespeare on a Monday morning? I mean, after all, I’m kind of a Renaissance man. Even though we’ve had some chilly nights down into the mid-30s, I was surprised to see a couple of beautiful roses on one of our bushes in the front yard yesterday. […]
A common piece of advice that many authors get is to stick to one genre. If you write science fiction, romance, westerns, or mysteries, those are the books your readers are going to be looking for. Authors are told it will only confuse readers if they suddenly start writing in a different genre than what […]