Friday, April 30, 2021

Technology Trauma

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 My post today is really late because I've spent most of the day dealing with technology. I raced home (driving within the speed limit, ...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

Suspended Animation

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As we near the end of pandemic isolation, I feel my life is in suspended animation. Like many others, I am having trouble organizing my thou...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Letting it fly

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 I am at about page 75 of my next Amanda Doucette novel, and I'm at the point where everything is burgeoning. The story is expanding, su...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

The protector of the apostrophe

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By Rick Blechta  I didn’t know such a thing existed, but apparently there was once a thing as the Apostrophe Protection Society. Had I known...
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Monday, April 26, 2021

Moving on

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If there's one thing in life that is a constant, it is that it changes. Put simply, stuff happens. It might be little things - trying a ...
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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Are We There Yet?

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We're now into year two of the Coof. Last summer my touring schedule was abruptly cut short by a cascade of cancellations. I had already...
Friday, April 23, 2021

All Fall Down

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  Who knew that 2021 would be a continuation of 2020? One strange event after another. A couple of weeks ago we had a freak April snowstorm ...
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Thursday, April 22, 2021

A one-week news cycle

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Bakari Sellers said it best last Thursday, when he spoke on CNN: Only in American, in April of the year 2021, could coverage of the Derek Ch...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Oh, To Travel Again!

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  Rick’s post yesterday reminded me how much I miss traveling. I’ve done a fair amount of it over the years, though not since the pandemic h...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Oh, the places you will see!

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By Rick Blechta Being pretty well house-bound by government decree here in Ontario, my mind slipped sideways the other day, thinking of all ...
Monday, April 19, 2021

On Location

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   When I started my first book,  Random Road,   I picked Fairfield County, Connecticut as the setting for my Geneva Chase mystery series.  ...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

And Then There's the Dog

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I understand what Donis wrote about in her post yesterday. I, too, have been dealing with "monkey mind." I'm doing distance le...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

Monkey Mind

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I've been reading my blogmates' entries about lockdowns with interest and sympathy and some fear. We are doing better here in Arizon...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

The rollercoaster continues

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 I agree with Rick. Here we are in another  bleeping lockdown, only a couple of months after our hopes were soaring high because vaccines we...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Rediscovering an old friend

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By Rick Blechta Ontario, where I live, is in yet another Covid lockdown. Actually, Toronto, where I specifically live, has been in some kin...
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Monday, April 12, 2021

Getting back to work

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Happy Monday to you from Douglas Skelton in a sunny but chilly Scotland. As you know, I have been moving house. And if you didn't know, ...
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Thursday, April 08, 2021

What will the world look like, post-Pandemic?

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It’s a question I keep coming back to. Tom’s post this week, in which he mentioned the changes 2020 brought regarding book promotion, only ...
Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Emotions and Characters

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  In the last year, we’ve all experienced a lot of different emotions, each of them probably more intense than they would have been under no...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Writing and the hard truths

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By Rick Blechta As anyone who’s ever had a book published knows, relatives, friends, friends of friends, even complete strangers will eventu...
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Monday, April 05, 2021

Announcing the Reissue of My First Book, RANDOM ROAD.

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They say that writing a book is a little like telling a joke and waiting two years to see if anyone laughs.  I wrote my fourth book, Shadow ...
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