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My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Awarded the Moonbeam Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction.   (see the following web address for more information)     http://www.newsouthbooks.com/pages/2015/10/20/halley-wins-moonbeam-awards-silver-medal/                                                           Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon Well, folks, … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Awarded the Moonbeam Silver Medal for Young Adult Fiction.                                     Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon I read a while back about a hunter who fell out of … Continue reading →

She was a golden girl in our college days.  A natural blond, she had the lanky Julia Roberts look before Julia Roberts had it.  She even looked good in the awkward green pleated gym suits our college required in the … Continue reading →

  My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon One of the joys of our recent trip out west was our side trip to visit the artist-illustrator of three of … Continue reading →

  My latest book, HALLEY, has just been released by NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley We didn’t exchange Christmas gifts in our family.  If mill work was good, Mama managed to buy us each one gift–a piece of needed clothing for the … Continue reading →

  My latest book, HALLEY, has just been released by NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley Have you noticed that most people develop an interest in family history just after most of the older members of their family are dead or sliding in … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon I don’t do vacation bible school anymore.  Every protestant church in the South has VBS for one week every summer.  It’s sort … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon After I made the big decision to go to college, after I’d found a place to borrow money to help with college … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon It was 1957.  Standing in the doorway of senior English, Mrs. Stoudemire looked as if she’d just flown in on her broom.  … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon I still recall my first love.  Just in case he reads this, I will call him “Jeffrey,”  but every girl in my … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon It’s a wonder I even liked my cousin, Pearl when we were growing up in the 1940s and 50s.  She was beautiful … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon Our late Boxer, Bo, was very territorial.  He didn’t put up with other animals in his domain. He considered the Ark Veterinary  … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon Ta-da-da–da-da de Dah de dah ta dah de dah!  Dah–de dah… Every time I hear a John Phillips Sousa march I am … Continue reading →

  My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon In the Georgia mountains of my childhood, there were some people who were superstitious.  Not many actually believed in ghosts, but … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon When I first began to think of college as a remote possibility, at around age 17, I believed it was very important … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon “Mr. Watson” was not the kindest, most handsome, or the best teacher I had at East Side School in Dalton, Georgia.  He … Continue reading →

My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon Southern hospitality isn’t what it used to be.  And I’m not just referring to the decline of the ritual “Ya’ll come to … Continue reading →

  My latest book, HALLEY, Awarded 2015 Jefferson Cup Honor for Historical Fiction. Available at: NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley and Amazon My three youngest grandchildren are the most satisfying audience in the world to read to!  They will sit and listen for … Continue reading →

 My latest book, HALLEY, has just been released by NewSouth Books: www.newsouthbooks.com/halley  It all started one dark and stormy night two months ago.  Or that’s when my husband and I thought it started.  The day after the storm Benjamin kept seeing … Continue reading →