cj Sez: Did you remember to turn your clock back an hour? I did, and when the alarm went off this
morning at 6:30 a.m. but my internal clock kept saying it was really 5:30 a.m.,
I was a bit … annoyed.
By the by, I think I found the answer to why there is a time
change twice a year. According to a USAtoday
dot com article:
“The U.S. first implemented daylight saving during World War I as a way to conserve fuel with the Standard Time Act of 1918, also known as the Calder Act.”
If you’re an author, there a correct way to write it in your
stories (which I learned this week). The correct term is daylight
“saving” (not savings) time, and the AP Style Guide says it’s properly all
lower case.
Okay, that finishes that topic until next March.
Passing along info:
Chicken Soup for the
Soul is looking for stories for these upcoming books:
Life Lessons from My
Cat - deadline Nov 30
Running for Good - deadline Dec 15
Stories About Angels - deadline Dec 31
Stories About Miracles - deadline Dec 31
The Golden Years or Your Second Wind deadline - Dec 30
Running for Good - deadline Dec 15
Stories About Angels - deadline Dec 31
Stories About Miracles - deadline Dec 31
The Golden Years or Your Second Wind deadline - Dec 30
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Books are always great suggestions for Christmas gifts. BSP:
I have stories in several anthologies with Christmas as the theme. Here are two:
Christmas Through a Child’s Eyes
Back cover blurb:
“The joy of Christmas often gets lost in the hustle and
bustle of the holiday season. For many people, fond memories of a childhood
Christmas can bring back that special feeling. This book collects tales written
by adults remembering their favorite Christmases of the past.”
Paul Harvey blurbed the front cover this way: “In a child’s
eyes, Christmas is defined as never before.”
My story, written under my maiden name of Marilyn Olsein, is
titled “Dancing with Daddy,” and relates how, as a six-year old, I reconnected
with my Swedish father after a major upheaval in our lives.
The anthology is still available on Kindle.
Hometown Heroes, a Christmas Anthology will be available in time for the holiday. The publisher predicts it may even beat the projected Dec 4 launch date. Be sure to watch for it on Amazon. It’s a dual purpose book: Entertaining contemporary romance stories for you and/or gifts and proceeds to benefit the Cajun Navy. My story is titled “Hobbes House Noel.”
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That’s it for this post. Please join me next week when I’ll write
a bit about the significance of Poppy Day. You all guys keep on keeping on, and
I’ll try to do the same.
cj
A few more Christmas
gift ideas:
Choosing Carter https://amzn.to/2CJxs8Z
Deadly Star https://amzn.to/2O8NFGZ
The Posse, a Western
anthology https://amzn.to/2EKUA9B
Pieces, a Mobile
Writers Guild Anthology https://amzn.to/2Dk84Yr
GIVEAWAY CHALLENGE . . .
If you’ve read any of my works, let me know you left a
review at Goodreads, Amazon, wherever—good, bad, or simply “I read it.”—and
I’ll put your name in the raffle hat. It doesn’t have to be a new review. The
random name I draw on December 6 will receive a nice gift bag of goodies. I’ll post
the winner’s name on my Facebook page, so be sure to stop by.
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