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I’d like to share with you the first chapter of my latest Amish book As Is Her Name So Is Redbird which is number 4 in the Nurse Hal Among The Amish series. This book is found on Amazon in paperback, Kindle store, Nook and Smashwords for ebook.

If you’ve…

I hope  everyone had a Happy Easter. My family did. We’ve had such an early spring that we hated to see freezing temperatures the last two nights and tonight. I fear that we have lost our fruit again this year.…

My goodness, it seems like time to make a blog post arrives faster every week. Perhaps it's because I'm busy with other things now that we've had a taste of spring. I'm thinking about the garden, but today it is 53 with wind. Two nights this week it is to be in the 30's. That hasn't stopped me from planting two tubs with radish and lettuce which is up and…

My book table at the Methodist women's monthly luncheon when I spoke about my books.

With this unusually warm weather comes chances to get out and talk about my books and do a reading. I was the speaker for the Methodist Church women’s group in Chelsea, Iowa on Saturday March 17th for their monthly luncheon. It was a nice day for a scenic drive past…

I’ve received an outpouring of reviews from my relatives about the Bright and Bishop family history book I wrote. I loved that they told me they learned things from the book about our ancestors that they didn’t know. The book wouldn't have been possible if the relatives hadn't shared their stories and pictures with me. What is important about this book is the fact that future generations of each of the nine Bright children belonging to John…

This message was sent to me from Smashwords - a site where I sell my books and ebooks. Everyone has a right to read what they want to, and every author the right to write the genre that suits them. Those that don't care for books with adult content don't buy them. That's their choice. I fit in the don't buy column and mention that often in my blogs. Those who like the stories I write can attest to the fact my books don't have adult content.…

I’ve had some busy long days working on editing my book and designing a cover. As soon as I knew the book was in print, I posted on websites to announce the book’s release. I have a list of buyers that like to know first. Some have emailed me several times wondering how soon I’d have the book done. I don’t like to put all the buyers names together and email one message so I email them one at a time. Gives me a chance to personalize the messages. These are…

I’m sitting at the computer by the dining room window. In hindsight putting the computer there may have been a mistake. With most of the lawn showing, I keep glancing out to see if I might spot a robin or at least a rabbit. I know it’s too early by the calendar, but I can hope. The dense fog makes it hard to see, but I think the only animals prowling in my yard are not rabbits but cats and the birds not robins but chickens. All this window gazing makes it hard to concentrate on business. The…

When we have a day like this one, I should be outside enjoying the warmth, but here I am trying out my computer. I finally gave up dial up and got high speed on Friday. For months I’ve had connection problems. The problem was so bad that for the last three months it was as if I didn’t have dial up and to the point that I couldn’t download my book file on the website to be printed. I had the computer in the repair shop to get checked over, and it came back with the same problem. In the last…

A couple weeks ago I went on twitter to click on recent followers. For once the whole list came up fairly quick without telling me to wait because of a hiccup. Turned out to be more tweets than I had received notice about in my emails. I sent a message thanking each one and mentioned my books. In return I had a message back from Kindle Surprise. If I would email my book titles the books would be mentioned on Twitter. I did that. Then I had a tweet on Twitter from Booksie Jar telling me my…

Here I go again with the next synopsis and first chapter of my Nurse Hal Amish series. This book is titled Worldly Temptations.

How would you like it if you were told you have to throw away your cell phone and sell your car? You probably wouldn’t. You don’t have worry because there is a telephone booth three miles away from your farm that resembles an outhouse. You can make business calls but not social calls to chat with a friend. That is reserved for visiting in person on church…