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Mar.14.2013
Like many authors of amateur sleuth mysteries, I’m also a fan of reading them. That’s not to say I don’t read many other subgenres as well, and in my writing, I write a magical series that features both an amateur sleuth and an FBI agent, so that one straddles the fence between amateur and...
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Jul.21.2012
I will miss the rain when I've passed on...
When I've died, gone to the other side, whatever happens when I'm no longer living in my body, I will miss the rain.
I'm not sure when I started thinking this way. At some point I began realizing that I would not be here forever and there are...
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Jul.07.2012
"I would hate to be a lucky penny on the street today." ~Maggie Ewens
She has a way of looking at the world, outside of herself, questioning and really seeing things.
It's hot. We live in Arizona and it's July...it's hot and it doesn't matter if it's a dry heat at this point....
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Apr.11.2012
Arizona lawmakers passed a bill defining life as beginning two week before conception.
John Celock at HuffPost puts it nicely:
"A sentence in the bill defines gestational age as "calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman," which would move the beginning of a...
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Mar.09.2012
Women's Singles 4.0 is usually an event that struggles for participants, and the Voyager Holiday Skill Level Pickleball Tournament was no exception. Originally, six women had signed up, but by the time we actually played, we were down to three participants due to weather and other schedule...
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Jan.30.2012
WAHOO!! I just learned that my latest Samantha Brennan & Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery, MAGICAL ALIENATION, has received a Lefty Award nomination for the Best Humorous Mystery of 2011, by the Left Coast Crime 2012 convention! I’m absolutely dancing on air. Writing isn’t about awards, it’s...
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Jan.19.2012
Is this a tempest in a teapot?
Banned: William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was banned by Arizona as part of an ousted Mexican-American ethnic studies program
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Shakespeare work axed in Arizona schools as law bans 'ethnic studies'
By NINA...
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Dec.29.2011
You’re tellin’ white lies You’re tellin’ white lies Well I can see right through that thin disguise Can’t you tell I can tell when you’re telling’ white lies? —Jason and the Scorchers, “White Lies”
Forget so-called “political correctness.” In Arizona, there is a far greater threat to free speech...
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Aug.02.2011
“Terror Travels the Devil’s Highway”–the first Maggie Lopez, Border Patrol Agent novel.Shorty after moving to Tucson in 2000, I learned firsthand what it was like living near the Mexican border. I heard for the first time, the term, “illegal alien.” I perhaps saw them, or at least, the trails they...
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Jun.29.2011
Fillmore to the Rescue is the first book of my series, The Fillmore Chronicles. Here's a blurb and a link:
When the Scottsdale manse of reticent young semi-celebrity heiress Melly Shrop is rapidly invaded by an assortment of uninvited guests, each with a suitcase and an ulterior motive, her droll...
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