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Folk Tale Research Share

My schedule is all off kilter these days, but in my sorting, I came across some notes from a class I took on Folk Tales, and I thought that they might be of interest to some of my readers. 🙂 … Continue reading

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Tomorrow the Train Pulls into the Station for the Final Stop on the Virtual Book Tour…

It’s been a wild two months. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading the blogs related to the tour as much as I have enjoyed writing them. Tomorrow is a visit to La libreria di Beppe, or Beppe’s Bookshop in English. It’s … Continue reading

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Getting a Late Start Today…

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com …sorry about that. Today’s stop is at Jazzy Book Reviews and is the first chapter again if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet. Yesterday I talked a bit about the jobs that my … Continue reading

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Back Aboard the Tour Train!

  As you may (or may not) have noticed, I took the weekend off and did no blogging while the train wasn’t running. It was a lovely break, but I am eager to get back to it. Today’s tour stop … Continue reading

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Tap…Tap…Tap…

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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All Aboard! The Tour Resumes…

Today’s stop is the delightful land of unicorns at Sybrina’s Book Blog. Check it out, and while you are there, look at all her lovely unicorns! Jo hasn’t run into any unicorns yet but in The Elderly Earl’s Estate, she must … Continue reading

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Let’s give this a shot…

Months ago I set myself a goal of blogging on this site every Monday, and the main website every Friday. So far, that hasn’t worked out so much… …but we are getting a little attention again, so I’m gonna try. … Continue reading

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Researching Can Be Fun

I love research. I sometimes disappear down the rabbit hole for hours. I was actually looking for something else when I found the information about the Central Park Zoo Escape happening in November of 1874. (An illustration that accompanied an 1893 … Continue reading

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Moving On…

Now that the kittens are taken care of, we have a lot of other things to figure out. I know that things are going very slowly…slower than I had hoped. This is something I apologize for, but I really want … Continue reading

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How Much Research is Too Much Research?

Going off last week, How much research is too much research? I have a tendency to dive into the research and go off on tangents. This can be distracting and a HUGE time sink as well as fascinating and mind … Continue reading

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