Image by Raphael Silva from Pixabay I don’t spend much time on YouTube, but short amusing videos can be found on the site. Here are a few that you might enjoy. None are side-splitting, but they are amusing. And to wrap this up, a classic from Ronald Reagan: I hope you enjoyed seeing these. Have a good Friday!
As promised, here is the second cover reveal this week. Saving Anne de Bourgh is a full-length novel I wrote last year, and unusually, I wrote the bulk of it, or probably about 84-90% in the space of about three weeks. I usually take much longer to write anything, but for whatever reason, the words continued to come hard and fast; many days I was writing three chapters a day. Most of the major action happens in one day, so that…
Image by dlsd cgl from PixabayFirst, First, let me apologize for the delay in preparing my post. I let other tasks get in the way and forgot all about it. I’d like to say it won’t happen again, but I am pathetic at predicting the future. The beautiful city of Medicine Hat and, indeed, large portions of southern Alberta, are in the midst of a heat wave, with temperatures hitting 38° (100° f) yesterday and today. If not for my new efficient windows…
As I promised last week, I have a cover reveal today. Four Days at Netherfield was a project I conceived recently, one that has made it to the publishing stage far more quickly than most of my ideas. It is funny how that works sometimes, for delays can happen at any stage of the process, from outlining to final edits and covers. I currently have more than 15 variations outlined and waiting in my to do folder, which will give you…
Photo by Phardon Media on Unsplash Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, is the only city in the world that sits astride two continents, Europe and Asia. Its population is fifteen million, or nineteen percent of its country, Turkey! It is also the world’s fifteenth largest city. At its founding in the 7th BC, it was known as Byzantium. In AD 330, the Roman emperor Constantin changed its name to Constantinople (I wonder why?). That name lasted until 1930, when it was changed…