cj Sez: Mobile-area readers, take note. Here’s a chance for an
exciting experience.
“Enrollment is open for the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department
Citizens Fire Academy. The 9-week program begins on September 23, 2019.
MFRD's Citizens Fire Academy is a hands-on learning
experience, designed to provide participants with an overview of the major
divisions within the department, up-close experience of a regular tour of duty
for Mobile firefighters, and general practices in firefighting and emergency
medical services. Classes are held on Mondays from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
The Citizens Fire Academy is open to the public and free,
but class size is limited to 24 seats. Applications are taken on a first-come,
first-serve basis.”
Visit cityofmobile.org/fire/divisions/citizens-fire-academy/ to
download an application or for more info.
(cj Sez: I did this academy and the Police Academy a couple
of years ago as primary research for a book and got some invaluable insights into
the local culture and the lingo of Mobile Firefighters. Most exciting? Participating
in a jaws-of-life extraction from a mock vehicle crash
and being rappelled down
from a four-story building. If you’re not in the Mobile area, look for similar
opportunities in your home town.)
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DID YOU KNOW?
As part of the Dollywood Foundation, Dolly Parton established
a program called Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which mails one book per
month to each enrolled child—from the day they’re born until they reach
kindergarten. The program reaches over 850,000 children each month.
BOOK REVIEW 5 Stars
“A Lethal Legacy” by Heather Graham
While I was in Detroit last week doing research for a book,
I made time to stop in at a local library and do some reading for pleasure. I
found “A Lethal Legacy” on their New Books shelf and spent pleasurable hours
reading another romantic suspense tale well told.
Heather Graham does a marvelous job of place, setting, and
time descriptions that establish the eerie and deadly tone of the suspense immediately. Paint is peeling, chunks of the house are missing and night is
falling when the protagonist first sees the “old Victorian house” on an island. The yard is “scruffy
sand and grass,” and the “picket fence around it is broken or gone.” Would I
want to enter such a house, especially after “a man had died—horribly mangled
and brutally broken?”
There is love and betrayal, and love everlasting. Every
chapter starts with some kind of action and ends with an invitation—no, a
command to continue the journey. At one point spelunkers are warned: “A way of
saying, enter here and die.”
“A Lethal Legacy” is book 4 in her New York Confidential
series. On Amazon https://amzn.to/2NvZdaG
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That’s it for this week’s post. Please drop me a note with
any questions or comments…the mailbox is always open. In the meantime, you-all guys keep on keeping
on, and I’ll try to do the same.
cj
CHOOSING CARTER and DEADLY STAR are quick reads, chock full
of adventure with a touch of sassy banter and sweet romance. Get your Kindle
copy on Amazon…visit my Amazon Central Author
Page = https://amzn.to/2v6SrAj for
more information about my stories.
To order an autographed copy of CHOOSING CARTER, DEADLY
STAR, HOMETOWN HEROES, and/or THE POSSE, contact The Haunted Bookshop here: The Haunted Bookshop 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 the book(s) of your choice.
