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If you’d like to enjoy a quick trip to my neck of the woods,

click here, to view a mini-movie of a rainbow in a waterfall in the Smokies.

This is the DEEPEST book club I’ve ever gotten to talk with. What a wonderful treat. We talked religion, spirituality, you name it!

Here’s a photo of about half of the club, with one straggler, Christa and her awesome matched set of cats, shown separately. Hello y’all, especially Cindy in the green sweater!!

A new stray kitten wandered up to my house yesterday but I’m unable to wrangle it well enough to get a photo. : ) I envy matching cats. Mine are very mis-matched!

This is a shout out to Stephanie McKeehan and her fellow book-clubbers. A group of women who are so pretty, I had to get a waiver to get in! Hello ladies!
Back row (L to R): Gwen, Sandi, Amy, Linda
Front row (L to R): Brenda, Bethany, Stephanie, Rebecca

Here’s my Good Reads bookshelf:

Here’s my Shelfari bookshelf:

I just got “Emotional Structure: Creating the Story Beneath the Plot” by Peter Dunne. Wow, it’s the best book on writing I’ve ever seen.

It would have helped me understand what I was struggling to do unconsciously in “Heart in the Right Place.” It would be a lot quicker and easier to structure a book right when you understand what you are doing ahead of time!

The book is deep, too. It talks about wisdom and moral development of human beings. That’s the most important thing to me, not just a list of ten quick and easy tricks for writing a story.

The good news is the guy who wrote this book is both a great guy and commercially successful. It’s a super mix for an author of a how-to book.

Here’s a possible cover for the paperback due out in August. What do you think?

German translation rights were just purchased for Heart in the Right Place….so if the book really catches on in Germany…maybe there could be a television series called The Bavarian Hillbillies…

Eric Maynard and Ellen Crayton at the Holmes County (Ohio) Public Library are a wacky duo who intend to have me speak at the 10th anniversary of their library by live video conference over Yahoo! Instant Messenger!!

Thank goodness Eric knows how to work the tech.

This is a photo from our practice run with me inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and them inside the library in Ohio.

What a crew! This club is the Wine, Women & Wisdom (WWW) Book Club. They are the BEST!