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Mar.19.2010
To my Tiwa family, everything means something. Every sign, symbol, occurrence, event, and element in their surroundings has meaning. The wind blows out of the south, that means something. The weather warms up considerably, that means something else. A deer crosses the road in front of your car,...
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Aug.24.2009
While WILD Mystery Author Sandi Ault is avidly researching for her next book, members of the WILD Bunch are contributing guest blogs. This one is from Gillian Driscoll, Ph.D.
Road Trip with author Sandi AultBy Gillian Driscoll
When I first moved to the west from England 27 years ago (yikes, has it...
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Jun.29.2009
Guest Blog: MY AFTERNOON WITH SANDI AULT by Patricia Wood
While author Sandi Ault is working on the next WILD Mystery, guest blogger Patricia Smith Wood provided this WILD Blog:
My Afternoon With Sandi Ault
By Patricia Smith Wood
Those of you who met Sandi Ault at a conference, a book signing, or...
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Mar.01.2009
I just came out of an extended period in what my staff (The Pack) refers to as "Black Ops." My pack, my friends, and my family all know that when I am on deadline for a book, I don't answer the phone, I don't open my email (I have most of email forwarded to one of The Pack), and, except...
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Jan.10.2009
Here in the Rocky Mountains, we've had record winds. Over at the tiny hamlet of Ward, not but a dozen miles as the raven flies, they clocked the blasts last week at 108mph. That's hurricane force, by anyone's standards. The weather-person says it's the La Niña jet stream that's causing this...
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Dec.10.2008
We have had days of snow here in the mountains, but this morning, the sun came out and began to shrink the mounds of white and set the glaciers on the roof to dripping at the eaves. The Ponderosa pines—so thankful for the big drink they have waited for nearly the whole fall—celebrate with shiny...
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Nov.21.2008
Last week, the time came to make some hard choices. I had felt the moment hovering around my peripheral mindspace for months, the tension building, the confusion and chaos and indecision swirling like mist on the slopes of the mountains right before it snows, warning me that change was coming. It...
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Oct.30.2008
In spite of these tears that will not stop, it is a beautiful morning. The sun spills golden light across the meadow grass, where a dozen ravens have spread out to search for food. Off to one side, both a magpie and a stellar's jay are perched in a lone ponderosa pine, watching. The sky over the...
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Oct.07.2008
One night last week, a young, four-point buck stumbled onto a narrow stretch of mountain back road a few feet in front of my car. The deer teetered on long, slender legs that failed to move him forward according to his bidding, and he collapsed onto the dirt and gravel, one of his antlers broken,...
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Jul.22.2008
I watch a raven perch on a large green pottery dish I have set out on a stump just at the edge of the woods. I fill the dish for the birds most days with water from one of the rain barrels. It is the hot, dry, dangerous height of summer in the mountains. The raven dips a black beak into the liquid...
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About Sandi
Sandi Ault is the award-winning author of the critically acclaimed WILD Mystery Series, including WILD INDIGO, WILD INFERNO, WILD SORROW, and WILD PENANCE. Ms. Ault's first novel, WILD INDIGO, was the only debut novel ever nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark...
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