Breaking news! At the end of September I am going to the Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival in Berryville, Virginia. https://www.shenandoahvalleyfiberfestival.com/home2024/ I’ve been invited to bring copies of my book, Jessamyn’s Yarn, and do a book signing. I’ll be there Saturday, September 28. This is not quite as random as it sounds. My cover artist is [...]
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August accomplishments
Cooking … The red Bing cherries I remember from my childhood don’t seem to be around anymore. The yellow and red Rainier cherries taste much better than most red cherries I’ve had recently, but I keep being suckered, thinking that I’m just buying cherries at the wrong moment, too early or too late. Well… I [...]
Fiction! Fairytale fragment …
I went to the market and bought a chocolate tree. The day was bright but slightly overcast, with streaky clouds blowing along, high in the sky. I like the market best in bright sunshine but this was a pretty good second choice, and a lovely way to get my cloudy mind into fresh air. People [...]
New BOOK!
I finished my new book and it's published on Amazon. I'm very excited, and also very confused. I started off trying to write a cozy mystery and halfway through, the book refused to cooperate. At the end, characters from the beginning returned, as they should, but not quite as I expected them too. Anyway, here's [...]
book sample
Chapter Two from Marguerite When Collin first turned up with a lump on his neck that grew and grew, I had flown east to help my widowed sister. The diagnosis of cancer had held up my return to work for several days and my employer had not appreciated this. Within a week I was fired. [...]
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