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I Spent Time In OZ

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This past summer, I had to go on a business trip for the Evil Day Job I don’t have any longer.  I ended up in Kansas in June.  It was surprisingly green with rolling hills and river valleys.  Not the sort if place I expected to like, but it was quite lovely.   The trip required that I spend the weekend.  On Saturday I worked most of the day and on Sunday we needed something to do and on the freeway, we’d seen a sign for the Oz Winery in Wamego.  We had to see what that was all about and … Continued

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Christmas with Andrew

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The holidays are always a big thing for Dominic and I.  We spend the holiday with my family in Baltimore.  So we are never home.  Therefore around our house the big day is the second Saturday in December.  (Which is today)  That’s the day Dominic and I have our holiday open house.  We invite family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, everyone we know to spend the evening with us and share some holiday cheer.  This is Dominic’s big night.  He’s spent the entire week cooking up goodies that I get only one time a year.  He makes at least a dozen different … Continued

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Welcome Michael Rupared Today

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The Robot Unicorns Thanks so much, Andrew, for allowing me to come on your blog to talk about After Christmas Eve. To celebrate the release by MLR Press of my second novel, I’m giving away 10 copies (ebooks) through an 11-stop blog hop. To enter, comment before midnight, October 25, 2013 on any of my posts (this is stop #5) on the eleven participating blogs. Be sure to include an email address. Publishing two books makes me an author for real. I keep pinching myself to make sure I’m awake. For the first fifty years of my life, writing fiction … Continued

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Andrew’s Gym

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  Sometimes when I’m searching for a topic to write about I look at elements of my own life for inspiration and one place that has provided a lot of that is the gym.   When I threw my father’s seventieth birthday party, everyone there kept commenting on how much I looked like my father.  Later that evening, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized I truly did look like my seventy year old father and not in a good way.  So that week I joined a gym and began losing weight.  A side benefit of that decision is … Continued

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10 Things I Learned at Authors After Dark

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Ten Things I learned at Authors After Dark Savannah 1) Pecan fried chicken is worth not eating for three days 2) C.J. Ellison, Boone Brux, and Marianne Moria throw one heck of a party. 3) The best way to start an evening is with a marriage proposal.  Right BA and Julia? 4) Being nominated for a Bookie is great.  Winning kicks ass!!!!! 5) Sharing a ride to the airport with Kate Douglas was the fastest half hour cab ride ever. 6) Doing on interview with Simply Ali was so much fun.  She was great to spend time with. 7) Stella … Continued

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