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Today’s Stop Is an Interview with Interesting Questions

Posted on June 4, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

  Today’s Book Tour stop is an interview over at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic. I had a good time with it. Reading back through it, I really liked it. I hope you will too. One of the cool things … Continue reading →

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First Chapter at I’m Shelf-ish

Posted on June 3, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s blog post is a first chapter reveal at I’m Shelf-ish. This chapter has been featured at several other stops, so I won’t revisit that here. Instead, we will talk about first chapters in general. Every time you start a … Continue reading →

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Drink My Soul…Please

Posted on June 3, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

  Did you ever have a dream spark a story? That’s what happened with my Apocalyptic science fiction story “Drink My Soul…Please.” I had a dream one night and the next morning three clear images stayed with me. One was … Continue reading →

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Tap…Tap…Tap…

Posted on June 3, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s RieTales post is about “Bloody Rain” (also available as a single). It is the story of a young woman in Whitechapel in the 1880s. I bet you can guess where this is going? I have been fascinated by the … Continue reading →

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Some Things Are Essential!

Posted on June 2, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

The saga of the refrigerator is over…and apparently successful. After finding out that the cleaning I had done to get to the garage door wasn’t what the guys delivering it was expecting or pleased with. They had to take the … Continue reading →

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As Promised…More In-Depth Story Posts!

Posted on June 1, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

I had such a good time with the Dark Divinations series that I decided to give the same treatment to my own collection of stories, RieTales from Mocha Memoirs–which is an expanded version of the earlier collection RieVisions. (Yikes! That’s … Continue reading →

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Just think…

Posted on May 28, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Our refrigerator died yesterday. No fixing it. We had to buy a new one. It won’t be delivered until Monday, which was nine days faster than the other place we found that had one. So, no ice for drinks. Everything … Continue reading →

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Throw the Bones…

Posted on May 28, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Our final entry into Dark Divinations is “Of Blood and Bones” by Jeremy Megargee. In this haunting tale, a visionary is throwing the bones to try and solve her sister’s murder. It leads her to a terrifying encounter which must … Continue reading →

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When a Character Has a Real Tombstone…

Posted on May 28, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

When I was getting ready to write The Elderly Earl’s Estate, set in Ireland, my next-door neighbor put me in touch with the Irish Consul here in Austin. The gentleman in that office at the time suggested I put Lady … Continue reading →

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What a Tangled Web…

Posted on May 27, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

We are heading into the final two stories in Dark Divinations. I hope you have been enjoying this series as much as I have enjoyed putting it together. Today’s story, by Alan Fisher, is “The Moat House Cob,” and it … Continue reading →

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