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Pictures I Didn’t TakeI often get a powerful urge to stop and take a picture. Then I don’t do it, for many reasons, but primarily because it takes me out of...
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None of These Places are RealI’m living in the middle of a movie set. As a writer, I find the experience fascinating, seeing how storytelling and setting are...
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The Annual Whole Series Sale for 2024The e ntire Mae Martin Mystery series is marked down through the end of May. Book one, The Calling , is free wherever you buy eBooks, and...
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I choose the dirt roadI wonder why running shoes are designed to be pretty. My new ones even have white soles with green and blue treads, as if the person behind...
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Experimenting with Paperbacks, Round TwoSince removing my paperbacks from Amazon, I’ve had excellent sales at the local bookstore, but only one paperback sale through my web site....
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Indirect Effects: The Beauty of the Partial EclipseSeventy-six percent eclipsed, the New Mexico sun was still bright. Of course, I didn’t look at it, but the blue-skied day seemed to have barely...
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She Threw a DartI’ve been reading old drafts I never posted, looking for lost gems, and found this: It was one of one of those talking-to-strangers...
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Street SolosShe staggered and wove, her steps crossing each other as she traversed the steep sidewalk, aiming uphill toward Main Street in her irregular...
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Inspired by LearningEvery two years, I have to renew all my certifications as a fitness professional. I enjoy the classes, including the tests, and feel...
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Stone and LightFirst, look at the art . Take your time. Explore. Then you may understand the effect it had on me. I attended an Art Talk by Otto Rigan...
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Words that Stayed With MeI had, as usual, inspiring encounters with art and with friends at the January Art Hop. In one gallery, I talked with a very productive artist who...
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Shaman’s Blues 99 cent saleNo murder, just mystery.Book two in the Mae Martin Psychic Mystery series is 99 cents in all eBook stores through the end of January. The book that...
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Spinning OffI’m letting the ninth Mae Martin Mystery rest a while, though I’ll be back to work on it soon. I’m taking an intensive course on revision...
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A Mistake—or Was It?I meant to go shopping in Las Cruces, an hour away. I was waffling about stopping at Caballo Lake State Park, a short way from home on my...
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Whose Season is It?I’m not talking about the holidays, but about tourist season. And coyote mating season. The local economy depends on the human snowbirds...
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More Rainbow than Rain and Another Bob Story: Two Small MiraclesI headed to Elephant Butte Lake to run on the trails on a sixty-degree day. I didn’t expect rain, but it arrived before I got the park, and...
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Review: Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief, by Kathleen P. ChamberlainI once said—meaning to make a respectful acknowledgement to an Apache friend—that Truth or Consequences, the town where I live “used to be...
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Missing link!I left this link out of the post about my holiday sale price on multiple paperbacks: https://amberfoxxmysteries.com/buy-paperbacks-direct/ The post...
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Books Make Good Gifts—Yes, AlreadyI don’t normally think about the holidays this early. I’m stunned to see that the neighbors two doors down have strings of red lights in their...
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Bob StoriesMy very, very old friend Bob is nearing the last days of his life. He may be gone by the time I publish this, or he may hang on a little longer....
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Why I now sell paperbacks direct—and not on AmazonI am now selling my paperbacks on my web site , where they’re priced the same as they were on Amazon, but my price includes tax and...
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How to Rescue a Gecko Stuck in a Roach TrapI’m posting this as a public service to anyone who may in the future find a gecko stuck in a roach motel. You may think you don’t need this...
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Revising with Help from My CharactersI finished the second draft of the ninth Mae Martin Mystery . It took two drafts to find out who was the real “villain” was and why they acted as...
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Rain ReunionAt first, there was only a thin veil over a butte on the far side of the lake. Dream on , I told myself. It’s not coming . As I ran five...
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NoveltyI take requests at the beginning of every yoga class. The senior students in Gentle Yoga ask for “the same as last week.” It’s become a running...
