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Decade birthdays

May 26, 2025 By Deborah Raney 28 Comments

Today is the first day of my last week in my current decade. It's honestly a little hard to believe that I'm as ancient as I am. On Friday I'll enter the decade that I've always thought of as "officially OLD." Ouch! But I'm not going to fret. I did that my last decade and it turned out to be for no good reason. On my 20th birthday I was a newlywed living in New York with Ken, but we had … [Read more...]

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Deb’s Favorites

May 25, 2025 By Deborah Raney 4 Comments

We hope you are enjoying these weekly feature posts from the authors of Inspired by Life…and Fiction. We're sharing some of our favorite things to help you get to know us a little better—and we’d love to hear your answers to these “favorites” questions in the comments below. Favorite Beverage (whether hot or cold): I love a piping hot Americano with heavy cream. (And no, I don’t … [Read more...]

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We Shopped at Piggly Wiggly

May 12, 2025 By Deborah Raney 26 Comments

One of the things I did on my recent research trip to Saint Simons and Jekyll Islands was visit local grocery stores. Yes, we needed groceries for our camper, but those trips were also pure research. After all, my characters will need groceries and if I write a scene set in a grocery store, I'll need to know what store that would be on this island in the South, what that store looks like on the … [Read more...]

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Happy Mother’s Day!

May 11, 2025 By Deborah Raney Leave a Comment

The authors of Inspired by Life…and Fiction wish a very happy and blessed Mother's Day to those of you who wear the badge of “Mom” or have filled the role of mother or grandmother in the lives you touch.  … [Read more...]

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Research Trip

April 28, 2025 By Deborah Raney 24 Comments

As you read this, Ken and I are waking up six hours from home in a campground in Alabama. We are on our way to Saint Simons Island on a research trip for the novel I'm working on. I mentioned the upcoming trip in THIS post back in January. Time has flown since then, and we are headed to Saint Simons Island (and Jekyll Island) in Georgia where my new novel, Who Stirs Up the Sea, is set. … [Read more...]

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