From Vermont to Connecticut and Back Again...
Hey there! We've been gone for awhile...traveling up to Connecticut to see our wonderful son Craig and his lovely wife Debbie and then on to Vermont visiting with my sister, Ann McFarren and her husband Don. Ann is the most gifted oil painter I now. She also does great watercolors. We helped Ann and Don work Art in the Park up in Rutland ( we were the grunt help!)and got a chance to experience New England in the fall. Cool nights, foliage and breakfast at Sugar and Spice, the famous pancake house up on the mountain road. Had two great dinners with my sweet niece Sheri and her wonderful family and my wonderful cousin Judie.
I arrived back home to find that the last The Falls small town mystery series book, The Falls: Coldblooded, that I had hurried to publish on Kindle before I left, needed a good edit. One of my writer friends, Kate Shannon, was kind enough to gently let me know. So since Wednesday, I have been busy editing and then republishing Coldblooded. It's now back on Amazon Kindle, absent a few dozen typos and glitches. Thanks Kate.
At this point, The Falls: Making a List, Checking it Twice, the fifth volume of The Falls small town mystery series, is now in paperback at Barnes & Noble, CreateSpace, Amazon, etc. Just received three author copies in the mail. I always send for 3 author copies after okaying the last proof, just to have them on hand. I brought my sister copies of the first four books when we visited. Seems so nice to have the actual book in my hands. I am constantly amazed at the high quality of paper that CreateSpace utilizes.
I'll be starting the 18th volume of The Falls series this morning. The plot has already been hinted at in the last book Coldblooded. But there are always several story lines running through the books. It is based on a town after all! Everybody needs to get into the act!
We finally sold our house on North Padre Island just off Corpus Christi in Texas. Praise be! We had originally bought it as a retirement home because we couldn't afford any houses in Florida where our youngest grandkids live. Then the market in FL crashed and suddenly we could. That's when we bought in Tradition (Port St. Lucie). We have hung onto the house in Texas so we wouldn't be selling for a loss. One thing I do know...the taxes and insurance costs in Texas were astronomical! We won't miss those even though the house itself was beautiful and on a canal that went right into the Gulf. It had a dock and a double lot. I truly hope the new owners enjoy it.
So, now I'm off to write, at my standup desk of course, and wish you all the best of Saturdays! May the dragons watch over you all...
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