I'm fashionably late today but if you could see my pajamas and my puffy eyes, you would not call me fashionable at all. I have many excuses, however. Sunday afternoon, I put the finishing touches on a book due on Monday. Then my husband and I cleaned and rearranged my office so I could see out into the front yard more and enjoy the new recliner Santa brought me. It has beach words all over it! … [Read more...]
What’s On Your Bookshelf? Santa, we want more books!
Hello. Today's post is brought to you by Santa and his little elves. When in doubt about what to get people for Christmas, a gift certificate to a bookstore (brick and mortar or online) is always a good idea. With everything from how-to and cookbooks, history, religion, fiction of all kinds and those side trinkets that go with books, I can't imagine anyone turning down a good browse in the … [Read more...]
Making Books a Part of Your Holiday Traditions
Christmas traditions. We all have traditions of one kind or another including baking, caroling, decorating, family gatherings, special outings, and more. As I was thinking of some of the Christmas traditions in my family, I realized that books have had (and continue to have) a special place in our Christmas traditions. One way I incorporated book into the holidays was by making Christmas … [Read more...]
It’s a Puzzling Giveaway
With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought it would be fun to share some Witemeyer family traditions. Well, actually, this particular tradition is a Gaskin family tradition that married into the Witemeyer clan. (Gaskin is my maiden name, and yes, I thought it was really cool when I was a young girl to find it in the dictionary as part of a horse's leg! I was destined to write westerns, … [Read more...]
7 Reasons Why I Stop Reading a Novel
I've noticed over the past couple of years that I've developed an especially bad habit–I'm having a harder and harder time finishing novels that I pick up to read. I wasn't always so hard to please! There once was a time when I finished reading almost every book I started. But these days, my shelves (both real and virtual) are overflowing. I have plenty to read. But not enough time. And … [Read more...]
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