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Christmas Card Postcards

Have I told you how much I love Bec Schreiber and the way she draws my cats? My nammynools are so much fun and she ‘gets’ them. This is as close as any of them will get to a Christmas tree. That’s Grey climbing up

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Five Years of Writing About Polly

As I wrote the final chapter in Book 20 last night (yeah – I thought I’d just lead with that – voila! I’m right on target), I flashed back to November, 2012. I was eight months from finishing my Master’s Degree and had spent the

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Me Too

Being posted on social media right now Me too. .……… If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote “Me too” as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. Copy/paste. I’ve been uncomfortable since I

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Thank You

This has been a terrific week. Now, to be honest, most weeks are pretty awesome, but the week after I publish a new book is filled with generous words from you and it fills my heart. One difficult thing for me, though, is responding in

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Editing, Cats, and Some Eclipse Pics

I’m in the middle of the first week of re-writes, proofreading, editing, etc. This is great fun for me. As much as I love writing, I love going through the book over and over – hashing out problems I created for myself, remembering things I

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Lost Kindle Content? Not Really …

A large percentage of you (us … whoever) own Kindles of one sort or another. Over the years, I’ve helped readers with some technical issues as they’ve come up, and it hit me today that you might not be making use of the powerful database

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Late Night Crazy Brain

It’s that time again. I’m two weeks out from the next newsletter. When that hit me today, I’m pretty sure all of the air inside me left in one fell swoop. Whoosh. Over these next two weeks, I will finish Book 19 and get through

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Mid-Month Catch-Up

Where in the world is Polly? In the June newsletter, I announced a contest – Where in the World is Polly? I’m not ready for you to do anything yet, but you should be taking pictures this month of a Bellingwood cover in the world.

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