Reviews Please

While I appreciate everyone buying the books more than I can say, please write a review on Amazon. We are very close to hitting the number of reviews needed to get to the next level of distribution and promotion. If you happen to be in a Barnes and Noble or just want to boost my…

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The Faire

Have you ever been to a Renaissance Faire or an OldWest Fair? Yesterday we stumbled upon one and plan on going back today. I love the feel of an old fashioned market, the open air, the hot sun, vendors selling, education and entertainment all inviting people in. Whether it is hand crafts, homegrown food, pottery,…

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Healing

NewEarth4-Healing- by Julia Schmeelk

Now that the 4th book is out, I can tell you that it was heartbreaking to write. To answer a few questions I have already been asked, yes I knew someone with giantism. Did you know that now they can treat it once it is detected? No, Golly is not based on someone I know, but…

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Rows and Stories

Planting a garden is a lot like building a plot for a story. You first smooth everything out, fertilize, work your soil, germinate ideas, plow things up, pullout rocks and sticks and set the rows. Then you start planting, mindful of what helps and what hurts, where you put things last year and always considering…

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Planting

There is something so satisfying about starting a garden from seed. I nurture these little plants inside during the winter and now, this week, I am putting them out in the garden. Of course there are plants that I sew directly in the garden, but not the majority, most of them I started inside. It…

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Book 4

Who is that falling into the nest? That tends to be the most frequently asked question from readers. Her name is LeeAnn. Against all odds she manages to survive, but obviously things do not go smoothly. Have you ever tried to convince someone that someone or something has value and they stubbornly refuse to see…

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Dishes and Food Prep

In many books that I have read, food, beautifully prepared mysteriously appears. Laundry is magically achieved or never even thought of and dishes, if not used as foreplay, are something a good fairy manages while the characters are sleeping. However, domestic heroes deserve credit. It takes real work and skill to plan and prepare three…

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Watching Cows

As I am sure I have mentioned before, we spend a lot of time watching cows. Did you know they set up nursery coverage within a herd? They set four to five mommas to watch the babies while everyone else goes off to graze. Those cows on nursery duty, and it changes every day, slowly…

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Books

Are you an ebook person or a paper book person? When I was a kid the real question was paperback or hardback, now almost nobody is looking for hardbacks of popular fiction, although you can find them for new releases in certain book stores. My dad has talked about a collectors volume of my stories…

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Earth Day

If you have read my books, you probably get the sense that while I am not what anyone would call a fanatic, I do believe in preserving the natural balance of the earth. Water on our planet is portable and connects continents, oceans, and lakes to our drinking water as well as the water we…

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