Today we have Plan B

cj Sez: Apologies, apologies. Author Anne Louise Bannon was unable to appear as our guest today. I’m hoping we can schedule her for a later date.  Plan B topic of the day is the time change. I hope you set your clock back one hour Saturday evening. Here's a tidbit you may not know: We writers adhere to our own kind of clock.

  I actually did set back all my clocks way too early on Saturday and then spent the rest of the day not really knowing what time it was. By the by, I think I found the answer to why there is a time change twice a year. According to one news dot com site: “Daylight saving time was first enacted by the federal government March 19, 1918, during World War I, as a way to conserve coal.” 

  I just wish they’d make up my mind and keep one time or the other. Which would you prefer?

 
  Authors, there is a correct way to write DST in your stories. The correct term is daylight “saving” (not savings) time, and the AP Style Guide says when written out, it’s properly all lower case. (P.S. The rule really applies to everyone.)
 
  And that finishes that topic until next March, when the clock will reclaim that hour you gained.

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A couple of Jane Friedman recent (and helpful) blogs:
 
   This post is by author and book coach Kristin Melville who writes:

 “Story structure promotes the concept that every scene of your story should serve a larger purpose—e.g., the inciting incident sparks the problem, and the climax eventually brings everything to a head.

So what do you need to succeed?”
 
  Click on the link to read more.
Murky Middles Begone: Ensure the Middle of Your Book Stands Strong | Jane Friedman
 
  The following post is by developmental editor and book coach Hannah Kate Kelley. Ms. Kelley writes:
 
“What is Gothic fiction?
Gothic fiction, also referred to as gothic horror, is a subgenre of Romantic literature born out of the late 18th century. These stories typically feature a hauntingly beautiful and dilapidated setting, suspenseful narratives, and dark themes like oppression, guilt, shame, and insanity.”

The link below will take you to the post:  
How to Outline a Gothic Novel | Jane Friedman

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  Okay, that’s it for today. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. Raising prayers for a happy and safe you and yours.

cj

  Now some words from my sponsors: Books make perfect gifts, and it’s not too early to start your holiday shopping.

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It's fall, y'all. Did you remember?

cj Sez: Did you remember to turn your clock back an hour? 

  By the by, the answer to why there is a time change twice a year? According to a dot com news 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.”

  In recent years, people have questioned the need to continue to observe the act. In response, there are sages among the D.C. electorate who decided they needed to save the sunshine. The Sunshine Protection Act that would have eliminated “Fall Back” and “Spring Forward” was approved by the U.S. Senate in 2022, but it never made it past the House of Representatives. The national bill is waiting in the wings, however. 

  According to the Farmers’ Almanac, at least 33 state legislatures have attempted to keep daylight saving time year-round. Currently only Arizona (with the exception of the Navajo Nation) and Hawaii do not observe daylight saving time.

Tip:

  The correct term is daylight “saving” (not savings) time. The AP Style Guide says it’s properly all lower case, as does the “writers’ bible”—the Chicago Manual of Style. Initials, however, are all caps: DST.

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  The idea of turning back time can be especially appealing when thinking about aging:

  Not me. I want people to know “why” I look this way. I've traveled a long way and a lot of the roads were not paved. Points to remember:

   You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.

   Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.

  I'm grateful for each day that I’m lucky enough to grow older. I can testify that eventually we reach a point when we stop lying about our age and start bragging about it.

  Here’s a wonderful tongue-in-cheek essay on the younger generation’s perception of "seenagers" (a senior who doesn’t act her/his age). My personal goal is to be one of those. 

  https://writerswhokill.blogspot.com/2023/11/seniors-ageism-and-cozy-mysteries-by.html?spref=fb 

 

  I actually experienced an episode of that perception when I took my granddaughter to lunch last week. The waitress came back with my credit card and the receipt for the tab I had paid, handed it to her, and spent a few minutes suggesting she enter a contest after logging onto the restaurant’s website. I was using Mac and PC computers for reports and graphic presentations before either of them were born. I give Maggie Rose credit . . . she started laughing before I did.

  I believe the following prayer will help keep the peace…if I can remember it in time: 

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.  Amen

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  This weekend, Saturday, November 11, the U.S. respectfully observes Veterans Day, a day set aside to honor all the veterans whose heroism made and keep this country free.

  “When first celebrated as Armistice Day, the day marked the end of World War I, formally recognized on the ‘11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month’ in 1918. The U.S. continues to honor the original connection to WWI, and Veterans Day is celebrated on the same day every year—November 11—regardless of which day of the week it falls.”  (Source: https://www.military.com/veterans-day )

  Canada honors its veterans on November 11 by celebrating their heroism with “Remembrance Day.”  

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  Okay, that’s it for today. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. Raising prayers for a happy and safe you.

cj

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  My novels THE DAWGSTAR and DEATH ON THE YAMPA are fast-paced, thriller/suspense stories with sassy banter and a smidgen of romance. (Perfect diversions for a quick weekend getaway.) The books are available on Amazon or through your favorite eTailer and bookstore. 

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  Angela Trigg, the awesome owner and a RITA Award-winning author in her own right (writing as Angela Quarles) will be happy to ship you any book(s) by any author of your choice.

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DST and Mobile Literary Festival report

 cj Sez: Daylight Saving Time is here.

  Did you remember to Spring Forward one hour? I did then forgot to actually do it.

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  Literary Festival Small banner  I had a wonderful time at the Mobile Literary Festival yesterday, an event that shines the spotlight on local authors and poets, both traditionally and self-published.

SRO in "Children's Books..."

  The Festival was well attended. Published prose authors and editors conducted workshops, poets read from their works, and a TV crew even showed up to interview the woman behind the MLF: Jodie Cain Smith.

  The Haunted Book Shop had a pop-up book store presence where attendees could buy books by local authors and have them autographed on the spot. Guess who didn’t get her books there. Sigh. Family life kind of interfered. Authors needed to get them to the library by Friday before the conference, but I was left without access to my vehicle to transport them on Friday.

  On the plus side, I did get to sit in on the “Pantster v. Plotter: The Great Debate” workshop. I was interested in the in-depth descriptions and analyses by the writers of both processes, but I think I’m still a pathfinder. 

  The Mobile Writers Guild “Pitch War” panel (authors, editors, agent) critiqued twenty-nine pitches. I’m thinking the MWG needs to offer a hands-on/practice workshop on what agents expect to see.

  All of that in one day, and it was free! The Festival was sponsored by the Mobile Writers Guild, the Mobile Public Library, and The Haunted Book Shop. Thank you and sa-lute. (Psst: I heard there are already plans in the works for next year.) 

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  I’m happy to repost the gorgeous cover of the Mobile Writers Guild upcoming anthology, CLASSICS RETOLD PIECES, in which I have retold two Agatha Christie short mysteries.

  Stay tuned for contributor spotlights and a release date, coming soon.

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  That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. Raising prayers for your health and safety.

cj

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Did you remember?

cj Sez:  Daylight Saving Time ended this morning at 2 a.m. local time. Did you remember to turn back your clock one hour? I did, but I didn't get any extra sleep.

  Animals, specifically my cats, don’t deign to observe hoo-mom time. Their internal clock said it was time for me to get up and feed them, and they were not shy about walking across my body and face to remind me. About the time we all get back on the same schedule, the time will change again because standard time returns on Sunday, March 12, 2023. I wish “those” people would make up our minds. All that ending of daylight saving time really means is that the sun will rise earlier in the morning and the evenings will get darker sooner.

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Public Service Announcements

  November 11 . . . one hundred years ago, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the “war to end all wars” officially came to an end.

  This coming Friday is Veterans Day, also called Poppy Day, the day set aside to honor the sacrifices of all who fought in wars throughout the years. 

  From the American Legion  https://spanberry.com/news/detail/32/national-poppy-day-honors-veterans-sacrifice-for-freedom   

  “Even in the darkest of times, flowers still find their way to the surface to bloom. Poppy seeds can lay fallow for years, yet bloom brilliantly when the soil is disturbed or when the soil is freshly dug. After the battles were fought in World War I, the blood red poppy flourished in France and Belgium when battlefields became burial grounds. The red flowers suddenly bloomed among the newly dug gravesites of fallen service members, turning the new graveyards into fields of red.

  Surviving soldiers came to see the poppy as more than a flower—–it became a symbol of their sacrifice; a tribute to the price of freedom. Although all WWI veterans have since passed, 100 years later, the poppy has become a universal display of the sacrifices made by Americans and allied service members around the world.”

For more info, visit www.ALAforveterans.org

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cj Sez: I thank God for the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for my soul, and I thank the thousands and thousands of service people and their families for their sacrifices which have ensured the singularly rare freedoms that Americans enjoy. 

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This week Tuesday is Midterm Election Day.

Please take the time to exercise your right and duty to vote. (Psst: Voting is one of the ways to help safeguard the freedoms that all those thousands of service people fought for: "All gave some; some gave all.")

cj

No inflation here: 

THE DAWGSTAR and DEATH ON THE YAMPA, my fast-paced, exciting suspense/thriller ebooks, are now low-, low-priced at $2.99.

P.S.  The Haunted Book Shop has signed paperback copies of my books in stock. TO ORDER, contact The Haunted Bookshop here: https://www.thehauntedbookshopmobile.com/contact-us  

Happy reading! 

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Happy Halloween and welcome to November

cj Sez: Monsters Got Talent, and they are celebrating Halloween at OWA—for those readers not familiar with OWA, it’s the amusement theme park operated the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Foley, Alabama. The picture below is of monster/werewolf grandson Jeff singing to the crowd and “having a blast.”

Photo by Lori Goodrich Photography

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The history of Halloween from various computer searches

Halloween or Hallowe’en, a contraction of Hallowed Eve, is also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) and is observed in many countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ Day. The tradition originated with the pagan Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced SOW-in) when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts. From present-day Ireland to the United Kingdom to Brittany, France, the ancient Celts marked this as one of their four most important festival days of the year.

   And a little background about my short story in the HALLOWEEN PIECES anthology:

   If a month happens to have two full moons, the second full moon is called a “blue moon,” and that happens on Halloween/Samhain once about every nineteen years. 

   My short story, “Once in a Blue Moon,” is a fantasy mystery so named because Samhain fell on such a rare event in 2020. 

   The story takes modern-day Katherine Johnson into a mysterious village where she’s caught in an ancient celebration from which she might never return.

   Halloween is the theme but everything in the anthology is an enjoyable read for any season. As of the time of this post, HALLOWEEN PIECES is free on Kindle Unlimited and $1.99 to buy for your own library.   Buy Halloween Pieces Now

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NOVEMBER NEWS

SinC into NaNoWriMo with Sisters in Crime

From a SinC Press Release

   Starting November 1, join #SinC for a month of write-ins, socials, tips, and encouragement! Sign up here so you don't miss a thing: https://www.sistersincrime.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1554098&group=

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COMING SOON

STORMY PIECES…

Number 5 in the Mobile Writers Guild anthology series. 

 

   Copies of the new anthology, as well as cj’s thriller/suspense novels, will be available at an author book signing on November 12 (6 to 8 p.m.) at The Haunted Book Shop, 109 Dauphin St. in downtown Mobile. 

   If you’re in the Mobile area, come on down and meet some of the authors!

   Available for preorder   Buy Stormy Pieces Now

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REMINDER

Be sure to mark your calendars to stop by Lyrical Pens on November 10 for a guest post by author Barbara Hinske about her soon-to-be-released THE UNEXPECTED PATH, the second novel in her Guiding Emily series. 

   P.S. Barbara is the author of the novel THE CHRISTMAS CLUB, now on the Hallmark Channel.

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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Next Sunday, you can be very early to church or you can get an extra hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time, sometimes called incorrectly by the plural Daylight “Savings” Time, ends on Sunday, November 7, 2021, at 2:00 A.M. 

   Ergo, “fall back” (set your time pieces back an hour) next Saturday night, so you can sleep in and still be right on time.

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HOLIDAY SALE

Fast-paced and exciting suspense with a touch of Jane Bond romance, the ebooks of DEATH ON THE YAMPA and THE DAWGSTAR are on sale @ only $1.99 each. Available at your favorite eTailer and on request from your local library—just provide them with the ISBN number.

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NOTE TO READERS  

No Lyrical Pens post on November 7. This coming week is dedicated wholly to my son Mark’s Celebration of Life.

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cj Sez: That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same.

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   If you’d like me to autograph or personalize one of my stories for you, be sure to tell them, and I’ll run by the shop. 

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There's money involved

 cj Sez: A contest from Sisters in Crime that offers a $2000 prize! Here’s their call for submissions:

   “The Pride Award submissions are open through March 15--that's this Monday! Are you, or do you know, an emerging LGBTQIA+ crime writer? You don't have to have an entire manuscript completed in order to submit. Make sure to check out the guidelines for this $2000 award. This is great opportunity, so get your materials together and submit. Happy writing,”  

(also at https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime )

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   Well, didja? Huh? Huh? Didja?  Did you remember to Spring Forward to Daylight Saving Time last night? DST arrived in the wee hours this morning, and 2 a.m. became 3 a.m. Alexa changed her clock for me, and I got up when I was supposed to…the cats and wild birds were very happy, because they could not care less about DST. I, however, will be taking a nap this afternoon. 

   Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we have to wait until the first Sunday in November to gain back that lost hour. (Maybe that’s good news because there’s hope.)

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*Excerpts from a report by Alex Newton at K-Lytics

   “Let's talk about an emerging genre of its own,
Paranormal Women's Fiction or PWF. It features powerful heroines kicking their midlife problems to hell with sass, magic, mystery, and adventure.

   Think of movies like The Witches of Eastwick or Practical Magic, and you got it.

   You can find the occasional PWF title on Kindle published as early as 2011. But about a year ago, some experienced authors from genres such as paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and cozy mystery decided to define a dedicated place (i.e., a genre) for PWF books and differentiate them from other genres.
/ / /

   “The evolution of PWF underscores the continued rise in popularity of women's fiction. But not only that. It proves what indie publishers can achieve in no time, thanks to their innovation, agility, hard work, and persistence.

   Could PWF be something for your writing or inspire you to develop your own genre-defining ideas?  Check out this new K-lytics research report!"

https://k-lytics.lpages.co/paranormal-womens-fiction/

https://www.facebook.com/K.lytics

(*cj disclaimer: I do find these reports interesting enough to do further investigations. However, I’m passing along the information, not endorsing K-lytics products.)

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 cj Sez: That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on
keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same.

cj

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The store has re-opened to limited hours, so if you’re in the Mobile area, you can stop and shop, too.

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Do you think one extra hour of sleep is enough to get writers ready for 30 days of B-I-C?

cj Sez:  "National Novel Writing Month" is an organization that helps writers write, though the group is probably best known for their November NAtionalNOvelWRItingMOnth challenge that starts today…

   NaNoWriMo is a time when thousands of people commit to sitting their butts in chairs (B-I-C) and writing 50,000 words in one month. Since November has thirty days, that comes out to 1666.66 words a day (plus .2), but who’s counting. This year Sisters in Crime, an organization I am a member of, is a proud sponsor of NaNoWriMo. 

cj Sez: If you’re thinking about accepting the challenge, go to the NaNoWriMo website for more information and be sure to connect with like-minded writers who will encourage you along when the going gets tough.

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   Daylight Saving Time ended at 2:00 A.M. this morning. Hopefully, on Saturday evening, your clocks fell back one hour and you got your extra hour of sleep.

Personally I wanted to turn my clocks forward to a better year…whatever it is.

From The Old Farmer’s Almanac: Why Did DST Start? 

   “Blame Ben? Benjamin Franklin’s “An Economical Project,” written in 1784, is the earliest known proposal to ‘save’ daylight. It was whimsical in tone, advocating laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of dawn to save the expense of candlelight:

   ‘Every morning, as soon as the Sun rises, let all the bells in every church be set ringing: and if that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in every street to wake the sluggards effectually… . Oblige a man to rise at four in the morning, and it is probable that he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening.’” 

   The Almanac reported that the first true proponent of Daylight Saving Time was an Englishman named William Willett who revived the idea in 1907 and actively lobbied for it.

   Despite Mr. Willet’s push, it was the Germans who were first to officially adopt the concept in 1915 as a fuel-saving measure during World War I.

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   From the pen of a Facebook friend/author comes my inspiration and aspiration: “47,520 copies sold through the years. I’m right proud of that.” (And well she should be!)

Advice from Bookish Buzz on Facebook:

  “Don’t be afraid to stop reading books that aren’t working for you. Reading time is precious, and you should use it to read books you love—not books you think you *should* finish.”

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   There are eighteen pieces for your reading pleasure in the Mobile Writers Guild latest anthology, HALLOWEEN PIECES, ranging from ghost and paranormal stories to poems and even a play. The Halloween theme is not the end-all-be-all—the selections offer year-round enjoyment. The anthology gives readers hours of variety entertainment for one low price! (A great gift for the holidays.)

Buy Now 

   The Mobile Public Library  YouTube channel has videos of some of the authors reading excerpts from their submissions. Find the Mobile Writers Guild Anthology play list here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd7Q8MrJ_U8&list=PLBvSFfmvnJuBHiGkQqy_M9kSDepqoqKMl

   A review that came in to my Facebook page: “It was very enjoyable.....all of the stories were.” 

   HALLOWEEN PIECES is available on Amazon (free on Kindle Unlimited)—and several of the authors have signed a limited supply of copies available from The Haunted Bookshop (see where to order below).

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EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT/PRIVILEGE/DUTY TO VOTE

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  That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. 

cj

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Creating relationships

cj Sez: A couple of years ago, I did a post about relationships. I’d read some really good articles on the subject, and I think some of the things I learned are worth repeating today.

The dictionary defines the word “relationships” this way:

relationship

[ri-ley-shuh n-ship] 

noun

1. a connection, association, or involvement.

2. connection between persons by blood or marriage.

3. an emotional or other connection between people:  the relationship between teachers and students.

4. a sexual involvement; affair.

   Really, you don’t need another person to have a relationship. You can have a relationship with anything, animate or inanimate

   In the movie TURNER AND HOOCH, Tom Hanks’s Turner character builds a crazy relationship with a big, slobber-faced dog. You have a compulsively neat, bachelor, detective whose tidy world is invaded by Hooch who brings household destruction and chaos. . . The Odd Couple redux.

   In the 2000 movie CASTAWAY, Tom Hanks’s marooned

character creates a relationship with an inanimate object. He creates a persona for the Wilson volleyball that survived the plane crash with him. He gives it a face and a name and talks to it as if it were another person.  In the mid-1970s, it was the Pet Rock craze.

   Every day we interact with animals, objects, and people of all stripes—family, friends, coworkers, strangers, et al. Our relationship with each is different, depending on the need.

   As authors, we create relationships between characters in their stories.

   One of the most important relationships authors can have is the one they have with their readers…the relationship they build with their writing.

   If I’ve gotten you interested enough to continue reading this brief essay, then I’m beginning to build a relationship with you. How long the relationship will last will be determined by how long I can continue to entertain your interest in what I’m saying…your excitement of learning something new or discovering a statement that suddenly makes sense to you.

   One comment I read on author/reader relationships went something like… “I don't need every detail explained to me. Rather, let me see the details and discern for myself.”

   This is how stories must progress if you’re going to keep your audience interested in your work. Write the truth. Appeal to their intellect. This is especially true for fans of mysteries, suspense, and thrillers. These readers love to learn something new. They’d rather not be told but want to discover things on their own.They want to feel smart at having figured out the puzzle.  It’s about writing in Deep Point of View. It’s about positive reinforcement. We all need it.

   A writer’s skill at creating a story that draws in a reader emotionally and intellectually is what keeps the reader coming back for more. That’s when you’ve got the beginnings of a relationship.

   Caveat: It is the author’s responsibility to maintain the relationship. The reader doesn’t owe you anything and can end this promising author/reader relationship at any time, sometimes for no apparent reason.

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Tidbits to share:

   Fellow author Maris Soule recently blogged about the copyright laws, and it starts off this way: On January 1, 2020, copyright on the thousands of works created in 1924 expired, and these works began their new life in the public domain. I think you’ll find the piece very interesting:      https://bit.ly/39fJ3de

   A recent Kirkus Review post briefly discusses how proper punctuation clarifies complex sentences.

https://bit.ly/2VCNif1

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   Daylight saving time officially starts Sunday, March 8 at 2 a.m. Since I don’t plan to get up in the middle of the night to change my clocks, it’d be a good idea to “spring forward”—i.e., move the clocks ahead one hour—before going to bed next Saturday night (or just let all those smart devices change themselves).

   P.S.: The grammatically correct usage is “daylight saving time.” The expression is singular and not capitalized, according to the US Government Publishing Office style guide; i.e., daylight saving (not savings) time.

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   That’s all for this week’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same.

cj

   VALENTINE’S DAY PIECES anthology is still available on Amazon—hours of entertainment for very little money. And could you please take a couple of minutes to write a review.  

   Autographed print copies of CHOOSING CARTER, DEADLY STAR, and THE POSSE are still available at the Haunted Bookshop. TO ORDER (and support an indie bookstore) contact The Haunted Bookshop here: The Haunted Bookshop  Angela Trigg, the awesome owner and an award-winning author in her own right (writing as Angela Quarles) will be happy to ship you the book(s) of your choice. If you’re in Mobile area, do stop in at the book store; it’s a neat place to browse.

These friendly people make a point to shelve the books of local authors, and VALENTINE’S DAY PIECES anthology is also available there. If they don’t happen to have any copies of any book(s) you want, they’ll place an order for you.

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