And the winner is . . .

cj Sez:  Congratulations to Sherry Zehner Ney on winning the MARDI GRAS PIECES ebook in Lyrical Pens’ contest. Sherry already had MARDI GRAS PIECES on her Kindle (thank you very much) and chose to receive VALENTINE’S DAY PIECES instead.

  

 

Enjoy, Sherry, and thanks for playing along.

 

VALENTINE'S DAY PIECES  Buy Now  $1.99 at the time of this post  https://amzn.to/3J7CsD8

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   I’m still going to school. This past week I earned my Certificate of Completion for Hillsdale College’s online lecture course on “Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and Selected Short Stories.” Watched nine videos followed by nine exams, then a final exam. BSP:* I aced the final and two of the exams (got 90s and 80s on the others). Next on my scholastic agenda and sitting in my inbox is Hillsdale’s course exploring C. S. Lewis’s writings. Best of all, their courses are in my price range: Free!

  My motto: If I’m lucky I’ll get another year older, so I might as well try to get smarter, too. I love learning new things. I recommend it.

(*BSP = Blatant Self Promotion)

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Etcetera and P.S.A.

  Readers take note... Excerpt of a quote from John Steinbeck: “///… a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. ///” — John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

 

   Writers: Passing along a link to Jane Friedman’s blog and a guest post by editor and author Joe Ponepinto Maybe you’ll find a helpful tidbit or two. I did.

https://www.janefriedman.com/use-telling-details-to-connect-description-to-character/

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Get your Mobile Mardi Gras stories here: 

 

The eBook is still $1.99 at the time of this post  https://amzn.to/3IuTYkM

 

LAISSEZ LES BONS TEMPS ROULER

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You-all are so lucky . . . It’s a perfect time for great values on Valentine’s Day ebook gifts for your sweetie and yourself. 

  The $1.99 anthologies I mentioned above are chock full of good short stories.

  Plus I lowered the prices of my suspense/thriller Jane Bond-ish novels THE DAWGSTAR and DEATH ON THE YAMPA to $2.49 through Feb. 19. Available at your favorite eBook seller.

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  That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. 

cj

P.S.  The Haunted Bookshop has signed paperback copies of my stories in stock. TO ORDER my author-graphed books or any book of your choice on-line from a favorite, indie bookstore, contact The Haunted Bookshop here: https://www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/contact-us 

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