If you’ve never listened to “Ode to Billie Joe” sung by Bobby Gentry, give yourself that gift right now and click above. If you aren’t able to, or don’t wish to listen to it, here is a link to the lyrics. But listening to Bobby Gentry sing it with her whiskey-silk, Mississippi Delta voice is a treat you won’t forget. Gentry wrote and recorded the song in 1967, and Billboard ranked it as the #3 song of the year. As young teens, my friends and I, like the rest of the country, animatedly speculated about what it was that the Read More
Category: 20th Century Historical Romance
Celebrating with a Giveaway: The Cavanaugh House is Available as an Audiobook
GIVEAWAY ALERT! To celebrate the publication of the audiobook version of The Cavanaugh House, I am giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Now you can listen to Jesse Graham’s story told through the voice of talented actress Amy McFadden. The Cavanaugh House This house held secrets. Secrets that wafted through rotting window sashes on the winter wind. Secrets that spiders wove into webs anchored between the ceiling and walls. Secrets that scuttled on the feet of cockroaches across stained kitchen linoleum and scurried into its cracks. Secrets that peered from holes in the baseboard from glinting mouse eyes. Read More
A Flower Child, Sex, Love and Rock ‘n Roll Fuel Juli Page Morgan’s Latest Release
Juli Page Morgan is a woman after my own heart. Her novel is set in the hippy culture of 1968. Welcome, Juli! Tell us about your journey to this book. I grew up hearing that I needed to get my head out of the clouds, stop living in a fantasy world, and focus on things that were “real.” Though all this advice was well-meaning, little did those who offered it realize I wasn’t a lazy dreamer, but a Novelist-in-training. I didn’t realize it, either. Those fantasy worlds in those clouds that took me away from “real” things were stories Read More