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and getting a new, fully functional website where people should be able to find
everything they need, including my blog. Blogger has been a giant pain in the
butt for me for many years. Not sure why, but I've never been able to get this
page to sync with my Google profile, which means I have to log out and in to
post. So anyway, look for a new blog and website
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of the Elise Sandburg series. The popularity seems to increase with each
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"></span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Play Dead </i><span style="font-family: "arial";">was
originally written over ten years ago as a stand-alone title for Penguin Putnam. My editor at Penguin</span><b style="font-family: Arial;"> loathed it.</b><span style="font-family: "arial";"> It made her extremely angry. She </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">called David Gould "despicable, with no redeeming
qualities". I'll never forget those words. I was told that if I did not drastically change his character they
would pull all backing for the book and might not sign me for any future work—and future work would not get in-house support (this makes or breaks a traditionally published book). Normally I do what I'm "asked" because basically I work for the publishing house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Now, I <i>cherish</i> a good editor. A good editor can take a book to another level. But I loved the David Gould character, and I refused to change him, and all backing<i>
was</i> pulled. As threats continued, I held my ground under what I now consider extreme abuse of the creative spirit. I'll never regret standing up for my work even though that decision set back my crime fiction career, and Anne Frasier disappeared for several years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> Flash forward: The Amazon imprint Thomas
& Mercer reissued </span><i style="font-family: Arial;">Play Dead</i><span style="font-family: "arial";"> and a series was born. And I'm able
to write what I want to write. I've never had anyone at T&M try to tell me what to write or how
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The Minneapolis book is finished and, because of reader response to <i>Pretty Dead</i>, I'm back with
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">If you're reading this and haven't bought all of the Sandburg books, they're on sale through November. $2.00 each, or grab them all for $6.00.</span></div>
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From New York Times bestselling author Anne Frasier comes her newest SERIAL-KILLER THRILLER!</div>
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"A great read. Would recommend to any fans of KARIN SLAUGHTER and LISA GARDNER."</div>
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"This thrilling page-turner will keep readers intrigued and on the edge of their seat."</div>
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"By far the best of the three books. I laughed, I was almost bought to tears and I couldn't put my kindle down till I'd read every last page. After being approved for this book, I went to Amazon and downloaded the first two books. The first first two books are good, but there is something about this one that leaves them in the dust. I loved the use of misdirection, angst, betrayal, attraction, and suspense.. I can't wait for what comes next for Elise, David and their merry band of misfits."</div>
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"The story line and the characters were gripping. Would highly recommend this book and author."</div>
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"This is my favorite book from the Elise Sandburg series. Once again Anne Frasier kept me captivated from the beginning to the end."</div>
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"A working girl is dead at midnight under the moss draped square. And the story never stops. Elise Sandberg's world collapse in the aftermath. From opening to denouement, you will not put this book down."</div>
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"This was possibly the best book of this series, and one can only hope there are more to come. Riveting."</div>
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A serial killer stalks the streets of Savannah...</div>
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Homicide detective Elise Sandburg and her partner, profiler David Gould, are all too familiar with the terrible costs of chasing evil. Despite their wounded psyches, the detectives delve into the deranged killer’s twisted mind, determined to unravel the clues in the taunts he leaves behind.</div>
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A city gripped by fear...</div>
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When his daughter becomes the killer’s next victim, a grief-stricken mayor comes down hard on the police, demanding that they catch the psychopath—now. Feeling the pressure, department officials enlist the aid of both Elise’s estranged father and an FBI profiler who has unresolved business with David.</div>
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A cunning and elusive madman...</div>
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In a heart-pounding race to stop the next homicide, the detectives uncover their own role in the madman’s deadly game. Will they outsmart the killer before another horrific murder takes place in their beautiful city? Or have Elise and David finally met their match?</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> <i>The
Orchard</i> is probably the most important book I’ve ever written. But little
did I know that the nonfiction account of my life on an apple farm would be
considered more compelling, more horrifying, and more thrilling than any of my
thrillers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Did
you know that apples are part of the rose family? And like apples, it takes a
lot of spray to create a perfect rose.
But the big difference is that we don’t eat roses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>The Orchard</i> opens with a
chilling story I used to hear when I worked at my uncle’s bar in Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Back
in the seventies, herbicide salesmen traveled the Midwest and would put on
these free feeds. Farmers would get a free lunch, listen to a sales pitch, and
hopefully put in an order for chemicals for the upcoming season. At that time, one particular company
encouraged its salesmen to drink the herbicide in order to demonstrate its safety.
The salesmen would pour it in a clear glass and drink it. This really happened, and you have to
wonder if any of those poor salesmen are alive today. And did they believe that
what they were drinking was harmless? Or were they desperate enough to do
whatever it took to keep their jobs?
I think sometimes we simply convince ourselves that things are okay when
they really aren’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
wrote this book to document 70s and 80s farm culture. I wanted to show people
what a farm looked like from the inside, from the heart of a young woman. But I think <i>The Orchard</i> speaks to everyone. We can all relate to wanting a
beautiful life. We can all relate to the feelings of isolation and confusion,
of devotion to a cause, of love of family. These are things that resonate with
all of us, no matter our background or lifestyle. And we all respond to the
path the human spirit takes when presented with danger and challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I’m
not the typical memoir writer. I’ve never liked to talk about myself, and I was
happy writing genre fiction. But I’d had this unique experience that had taken
place in a secret world known only to a small group of people, this weird and
awful and wonderful life in which I’d married a farmer, moved to his planet,
observed his culture, had babies, and returned to tell people about it. Along with my experience, I had
years of writing under my belt.
How could I not tell my story? As a writer, I felt an obligation to
chronicle and share this life I’d lived. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>The Orchard</i> is really a
tapestry of three stories, the story of surviving a challenging childhood, the
story of a beautiful life inside a life, and the story of poor choices people
make in seeking perfection. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">This
is the story about one farm, but it’s also a story about every farm. It’s a
story about a nation and big business. It’s a story about people not speaking
up. It’s a story about our children and our children’s children. It’s a story
about acceptance of things that shouldn’t be accepted. It’s the story about a
young woman who falls in love, marries an apple farmer, and never sees the
world in the same way again. And
it’s a story about the deepest and most profound love of all: the love of a
parent for a child.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">While
I was working in that bar in Illinois, a handsome apple farmer walked in and he
began courting me in the most magical way. We went on horseback rides in the
moonlight, picnics at the pond, and sketching in the apple orchard. He welcomed me into his world, and I
easily forgot that other people lived there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Three
months after he stepped into my uncle’s bar, we were married. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
was twenty-one and he was twenty-three. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I
had this romanticized notion of getting back to nature and the land. I imagined
myself barefoot with a baby on my hip, raising crops and canning organic
vegetables. But farm life wasn’t what I’d expected. From the very beginning,
from the moment I stepped foot on the farm, I was shunned as an outsider. My
handsome husband began to behave in ways I couldn’t understand. And the farm
itself, while beautiful and alive, <i>began
to reveal dark secrets</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> I was told to stay away from certain
areas. “Don’t walk in the orchard.
Don’t swim in the pond. When I asked why I shouldn’t do these things, faces
closed, expressions became hard, and I got no answer. I finally figured out it was because of pesticide
contamination. But nobody would
speak the words aloud.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"> At night, pesticides drifted in our bedroom
window while we slept. During the day, the poison coated the sheets and clothes
I hung on the line. It was all around us.
I was horrified by what I witnessed, but I felt helpless to do anything about
it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">It
wasn’t just the horrors of pesticide use that I had to deal with, it was coming
to terms with the realization that I would never belong on this farm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Here’s
a little snapshot from the book. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Shortly
after we were married, my husband quit showing up for supper. The evening meal is called supper,
never dinner. Dinner happens at
noon, and is never called lunch.
But anyway, he quit showing up for supper, and when I asked him what he
could possibly be doing out there in the dark, he scoffed and said I knew
nothing about farming. I actually began to wonder if there was another woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">One
night I heard his truck, and I followed the sound, and knew that he’d pulled up
to his parents’ house, which was a stone’s throw from our little place. So I walked across their backyard and
stood on the patio where I could see in the kitchen window. And there was my
new husband —eating dinner with his parents. Yes, there was another woman. His
mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Living
in this isolated world, I began writing genre fiction, and my first book came
out in 1988. During that time period, I attended a county fair. The local
library was selling three hard covers for twenty-five cents, and I came home
with a first printing of Rachel Carson’s <i>Silent
Spring</i>. I read it and began to
wonder if maybe I could write about some of what I was witnessing on the farm,
but I was told that nobody really cared what happened in the Midwest, and
nobody wanted to read about farm chemicals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">But
writing <i>The Orchard</i> was something I
knew I would do some day; it was just a matter of how and when. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">While
living on the farm, I learned to assimilate into the culture. In spite of
everything, my husband and I were able to carve out our own often-idyllic
existence, and <i>create the loving family I’d
never had</i>. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Office%202004%20Test%20Drive%20User" datetime="2011-08-08T06:24"><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">But
at the same time, I was always aware of the darkness that surrounded us. This
sense of threat. We might have been breathing poison and eating poison and
drinking poison, but so was the rest of the country. They just didn’t know it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">In
the salesroom, apples were sliced and offered as samples, but workers weren’t
allowed to wash the apples before cutting them. That might taint the warm,
fuzzy feel of a trip to the apple orchard. Nobody wanted to be reminded of why
their apples didn’t have spots on the skin, or worms inside. Customers just wanted
an unblemished and beautiful apple. <span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:Anne%20Frasier" datetime="2011-08-08T10:48"><o:p></o:p></ins></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">When
I finally started writing <i>The Orchard</i>,
I didn’t think about the emotional toll it would take. Life (and death) on the
farm was a past I’d worked hard to put behind me. It’s possible to recall an
event for an hour or an evening, but immersing myself in the details for a year
and a half was painful and daunting. And as I said, in the end the truth was
more horrifying than any fiction I could ever write.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">But
I came back to something I’d been told in the eighties: Nobody wants to read
about pesticides. </span>Then
I realized what I had was a dark, but true fairy tale, complete with the
magical land, the handsome prince, the naïve bride, and the poison apple.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">And
along with the fairy tale was a message to the world about what was happening
on farms throughout our country, a time undocumented and unexamined. I needed
to document it. Examine it. This
piece of my life, this piece of seventies and eighties farm culture that still
impacts all of us today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Most
of the events in <i>The Orchard</i> took
place some time ago, but sadly not much has changed in the farming world.
Apples have once again been named the most pesticide-laden fruit in the
country. But I no longer believe
that people don’t care. I think they care, and I think they want to know, and I
think they need to know what’s happening and what has happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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think it’s also important to keep in mind that farmers aren’t to blame. The
market dictates what kinds of crops are raised, and how they are raised.
Farmers couldn’t sell imperfect produce, and a lot of farmers paid the price
for that perfection. Many men and women died to provide unblemished food for
our tables. The United States as a
culture seeks perfection in everything, and no one person is strong enough to
stand up to that culture, but fortunately, we have a more educated consumer
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Apples
symbolize home and love and family. There is no other fruit that speaks to us
on such an emotional level, marking the seasons with promise and mystery, and
that bittersweet feel of a beautiful fall day when the shadows hitting the
ground are black and sharply defined, when the air carries with it a loamy,
ephemeral scent that smells like the perfume of our lives, and we can feel our
history and our future in that single, magical day. In one beautiful apple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">So
visit an organic orchard. Pick an apple. A deep red one. Polish it on the leg
of your jeans. Hold it in your
hand, and enjoy its beautiful imperfections. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We're heading into award season and I recently got news that <i>Stay Dead </i>was listed as one of the best suspense thrillers of 2014 by <i><a href="http://www.suspensemagazine.com/2014DecemberBestofIssue.html">Suspense Magazine</a></i>.<br />
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Complete list of winners in the suspense/thriller category:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Peter May</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br />Jenny Milchman<br />m.c. Grant<br />Lisa Unger<br />Alan Jacobson<br />Anne Frasier<br />Jon Land<br />Allison Brennan<br />Steven James</span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">I finished the third Elise Sandburg book in November. Right now it's scheduled for a July 25 release, but that could change. AND damn if I still don't have a title. :D Nobody's fault but mine. I have a list of possibilities, but nothing feels 100% right. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">What I'm working on now:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">This is a long, boring story. This summer I was invited to be a part of a super-secret project involving a big and exciting concept. I can't go into a lot of detail because... secret. The whole concept was so compelling that I couldn't say no. I wrote a post-apocalypse crime fiction story (50,000 words) for this project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> When will I learn not to get involved with new companies? I should have learned my lesson with Quartet Press. Remember them? Didn't think so. They folded before they started, but not before sucking up a lot of my time and leaving me with nothing to show for it. So it happened again with this super-secret project. I was wrapping up the first draft of my story when things fell apart, and now I've spent a total of five months on this story—first writing it for a high-concept project, then later trying to revamp the super-secret story into straight crime fiction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> If you've ever done a major revamp you know it can take ten times as long as simply starting from scratch. It's like trying to remove the baking soda from a recipe once you realize you added it by mistake. Yeah, you could dump it completely, but you used this really fantastic chocolate that you'll never find again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> So now my post-apocalyptic book has dwindled to 15,000 words of straight crime fiction. And it should be 80,000. Basically I'm starting over. Sigh. Hope to have it finished by June. It actually DOES have a title, but it's too early to share. Present day crime fiction set in Minneapolis. </span></span><br />
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HOUSE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I live in Walmart. No, really. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">live</i> in Walmart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years back I dated a guy who’d
been involved in the construction of the Super Walmart on Highway 8 in St.
Croix Falls, Wisconsin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“There’s
an anomaly in the wall,” he’d told me. “A crack you can squeeze through.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
thought he was lying, and I’d insisted he take me there, show me the
crack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was almost too fat to
squeeze through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But me, I made it
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once inside, we pulled out
our key chains with their little lights.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A room about twelve-by-twelve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cement block walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cement
floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Somebody could live here,”
I’d said, laughing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
then the recession hit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">You wouldn’t recognize the place
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Green shag rug, red lamps,
posters, inflatable couch and an inflatable bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small television.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really quite cozy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
usually sleep late, then wake up to hit the restroom followed by a visit to the
Walmart cafe before taking my usual spot in the traffic outside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was still nursing my
eggnog-flavored coffee when one of the security guards approached my table near
the front of the store.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Afternoon,
Molly.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d guess him to be close to my age,
maybe twenty-six. He’d asked my name once, and I’d told him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hi,”
I replied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That one syllable ended
in a cautious lilt as I wondered what he wanted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Enjoying
your day at Walmart?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Um,
yeah.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I’ve
noticed that you’re here quite a bit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“I
like to people watch.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Me too.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
now he was giving me one of those you-know-what-I-mean looks.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
knows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knows about my secret
room.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I hated to think of moving.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially now, at Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I glanced around, expecting more
guards to materialize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they
didn’t, I calmed down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Well, have a nice day,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Once he was gone, I remembered I was dressed in insulated Carhartt
overalls, a wool stocking cap, and a red scarf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not attire for a day of shopping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t fooling anybody. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Outside,
I took a spot on the median so people in cars were forced to look me in the eye
as they entered the parking lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
cardboard sign I held said Merry Christmas in black magic marker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Panhandling
was against the law, but nobody could really do anything about saying Merry
Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it wasn’t as if I
didn’t mean it. Christmas was my favorite time of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours later, I’d had enough of the near-zero temperature.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On my return to Walmart, I passed the
Salvation Army worker ringing her bell, shifting from one foot to the other,
her breath a cold cloud.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I removed
a mitten, reached into the pocket of my overalls, pulled out a ten, and tucked
it into the red kettle. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inside, I sat down at a table near the
soft pretzels and popcorn to count my earnings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Two-hundred dollars. It would last a few
weeks if I didn’t go crazy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You might want to move along.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I looked up to see the young security
guard standing there, a stern expression on his face, his eyes cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
gathered my money and shoved it in my pocket. A movement caught my eye, and I
turned as a group of teenagers sauntered away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I swiveled back around, the guard’s
face had lost its chill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
pulled off my stocking cap and tried to smooth some stray strands of hair. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We’ve had a lot of robberies lately,” he
explained.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’d always taken care of myself, and I
didn’t need anybody watching out for me, but all the same his concern felt
nice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What’s that button?” I pointed to his
lapel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This?” He tugged at the blue pin with an
upside down V that looked like a roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I’m a member of Have a Nice Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s a secret society for hidden spaces.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was giving me that look again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“You know about me, don’t you?” I asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Your space? It’s not unique. Not a mistake. There are close
to ten thousand Walmarts in the world, and all of them have at least one secret
space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most superstores have more than
one, and don’t even get me started about Sam’s Club.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A hidden city.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He smiled. “We just think of it as reclaiming what used to be ours.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“What about surveillance cameras?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d often wondered why I hadn’t been caught.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We take care of that.” He pulled a pin
from his pocket and gave it to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A yellow smiley face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This isn’t like yours,” I said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The blue pins designate the builders;
the yellow pins, the occupants.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In a gallant gesture, he found my hand, almost brought it to his lips,
but seemed to think better of it, then said: “Have a nice day.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 200%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0.5in;">Crack House was previously published in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Discount-Noir-Steve-Weddle-ebook/dp/B0048EKIUQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1419193960&sr=1-1&keywords=discount+noir">Discount Noir</a>.</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I posted this back in April, but it's such a warm and tender and 100% true holiday story that it just begged for a rerun. Some people thought this was piece of fiction. It's nonfiction. It happened to me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"I hate to tell you this," the man says, "but your husband and my wife were having an affair. I found his name and phone number in her purse." His voice is deep and flat. Menacing without the menace.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"The guy who called you on Christmas Eve? He was caught," the cop says as the three of us stand clustered inside the back door, the door where my husband was supposed to have met that bullet. "The man was a telemarketer in California. Do you remember getting a call from a tool salesman?" the cop asks.</span></div>
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Anne Frasierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11101098702957959372noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260340660172798138.post-79842538536692770792014-06-23T05:45:00.000-09:302014-06-23T05:45:45.351-09:30"HAVE I MISSED AN ELISE SANDBURG BOOK?" <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Some people have worried that they've missed a book in the
Elise Sandburg series because the second book, <i>Stay Dead</i>, begins after a
traumatic event in Elise's life. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I'm getting soft, but the Tremain incident felt too
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I read this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/the-manuscript-of-the-proust-questionnaire.html">Proust Questionnaire </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And then I decided to condense the questions and use them to interview my characters. Here's the list:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;">What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;">What is your idea of earthly happiness? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">To what faults do you feel most indulgent?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who are your favorite characters in history?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Your favorite musician?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">The quality you most admire in a man?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">The quality you most admire in a woman?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Your favorite virtue?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Your favorite occupation?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who would you have liked to be?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Your most marked characteristic?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What do you most value in your friends?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your principle defect?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What would you like to be?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your favorite color?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your favorite flower?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your favorite bird?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who are your favorite prose writers?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Who are your heroes in real life?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is it you most dislike?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What natural gift would you most like to possess?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">How would you like to die?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your present state of mind?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">What is your motto?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;">Would you like to provide any additional information?</span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And I realized these are just as boring as my original ones from way back whenever. THERE IS NO EMOTIONAL PAYOFF. I NEED EMOTIONAL PAYOFF.</span></span><br />
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WHO MEANS THE MOST TO YOU?</div>
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GREATEST WEAKNESS</div>
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Blood Moon<br />
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Anne Frasier/Theresa Weir</div>
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I was born under a blood moon. At least that’s what my
grammie always tells me.</div>
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“Girl, you came shootin’ out like you couldn’t wait to start
raisin’ hell,” is what she says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And then her face darkens and she reaches for the bottle. </div>
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It ain’t easy knowing your birth killed your own ma. And not
a day goes by but Gram doesn’t remind me that I’m a murderer. And not a day
goes by that I don’t wish I could turn back the clock and be unborn. But it
don’t work that way, and when the townspeople come to the swamp to have their
fortunes told, I cling to their soft, perfumed hands longer than I should
because I want to feel something besides my life with Gram. And even if I sense
bad things, I don’t tell the customers. I look for the positive and happy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to see their shoulders relax in
relief. I want to see them smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Once they leave, I take the money to Gram and she puts it in
a jar and we sit down by the bed, one on each side. And just like we’ve done
for the past sixteen years, Gram rubs olive oil on my mother’s leathery arms and
legs while I brush our dead darling’s hair, lightly, barely touching so I won’t
do any more damage.</div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><i>Short story and image by Theresa Weir</i></span></div>
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</span>Early feedback has been positive, but there's no real way to gauge response
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</span>STAY DEAD is the second book in the Dead series, and features homicide
detectives Elise Sandburg and David Gould.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm including blurbs for both books in case you haven't read
PLAY DEAD, which was recently reissued by Thomas & Mercer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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detective and native resident Elise Sandburg. She's been haunted for years by
her own mysterious past: she was abandoned as a baby in one of the city's
ancient cemeteries, and it's rumored that she is the illegitimate daughter of
an infamous Savannah root doctor. The local Gullah culture of voodoo and magic
is one that few outsiders can understand, least of all Elise's new partner. Now
someone is terrorizing the city, creating real-life zombies by poisoning
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deceased aunt Anastasia’s abandoned plantation to recover from her ordeal, she
begins to question everything—from her dangerous line of work to her complex
relationship with her handsome, tortured partner, David Gould. But with a
madman on the loose, and her mother’s claims to still hear from Aunt Anastasia,
she may have more immediate problems on her hands. In Elise’s world, where cold
hard crime mixes with the local Gullah culture, nothing is ever what it seems,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the core of many writers you'll find wounded people
striving for relevancy. Maybe that applies to all art forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I've been lucky. Overall response to my
writing has been in large part favorable, so this isn't so much about me. It's more
about the constant and unending posts and comments I see online about writers
needing to grow thick skin and needing to be able to handle rejection and
cruel, biting reviews. "It goes with the territory," people say. This is true to
an extent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Problem is, the "inability to handle bad reviews" comes
from a place so deep that a hundred years of therapy wouldn't be enough to
crack the code. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you were to do some kind of study, I'm guessing you'd find that
many artists are on a constant quest for approval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The same could be said for writing. When the writing is
going well, my mental state is in a good place. The writing warms me. At this
point the story is something I embrace in secret, not sharing with anybody, holding
it close to my heart, keeping it, and me, safe. <b>Once the book is done and out
in the world, the unvoiced dream and desire is for that story to feed my soul
once more—with a warm response from readers.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So what I’m saying is that it's more than someone simply
being unable to handle negative reviews. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Because </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">readers are the second part of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">I have a few things to talk about, and I'll get right to them. I'm all about the facts with very little gab. :) </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Three books to tell you about, three different genres.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Penniless and behind on rent, college student and once famous child actress Ellie Barlow takes on the role of a lifetime when she's hired by a group of young women to break the heart of the campus player who cruelly dumped them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Featuring Michael Bunker, Peter Cawdron, Kate Danley, Anne Frasier, Sara Foster, Jason Gurley, Mel Hearse, Kev Heritage, Hugh Howey, Ernie Lindsey, Susan May, and Brian Spangler; and edited by David Gatewood. Includes a foreword by Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of </span><i style="line-height: 1.6em;">WOOL</i><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">A man who remembers the future and a veteran haunted by his past. A witch ignorant of her powers and a vampire achingly aware of his emptiness. An unmaimed man, a cursed queen, a troubled marriage, a family just trying to survive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i style="line-height: 1.6em;">". . . it is a great book. It is one that you will want laying in the stack next to your bed or chair or sofa or desk--wherever you read--because you will want to read it over and over throughout the years."</i><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> - Michael Bunker, bestselling author of</span><i style="line-height: 1.6em;">WICK</i><span style="line-height: 1.6em;"> and </span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Pennsylvania</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While I wait to hear from my publisher about a possible new
traditional book deal, I can continue writing. I've written three books while
waiting. THREE BOOKS. In the old days, I'd just wait. And wait. And wait. But
now I can be productive in what used to be unproductive downtime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course this means I NEVER have
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My newest self-published title is <i>He's Come Undone</i> (release
date approximately March 1). This is another New Adult contemporary romance set
in the world of what I think I’m going to call <b>City of Lakes</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anybody has a better name for this
series, let me know! There's of course the whole <i>come</i> thing, because all books
will have come in the title, but come is also a sex word, so it doesn't seem a
good idea even though it would be the obvious choice.</span></div>
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location, same year, same month, same days. Characters in both books visit the
same areas of Minneapolis, work in the same cafes, drink lattes in the same
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character crossover although a main character in <i>He's Come Undone</i> bemoans the
fact that the Kurt Cobain class is full (because Molly from <i>Come As You Are</i>
took the final seat), and another character in He's Come Undone gets a job at
Bad Waitress (where Molly works/worked.) </span></div>
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second books – IN THE SAME TIME SPACE. Because the books will ALL TAKE PLACE IN
OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER OF THE SAME MONTH AND YEAR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So readers who want more of Molly and Ian will be able to
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a bad thing, but a lot of readers felt <i>Come As You Are</i> didn’t have a satisfying
ending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had an HEA ending, but
I didn't go into details of that HEA. So I kept that complaint in mind when
writing HCU. Another comment readers made? They wanted more hero time, so I've
given Julian, the hero of HCU, more and longer POV scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last thing? <i>He's Come Undone</i> is sexier (this was simply my idea. Ha!).
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perk of self-publishing. I can watch sales in real time (thus knowing which books
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I'm thrilled to be a part of this fantastic anthology, <i>From the Indie Side</i>. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A man who remembers the future and a veteran haunted by his past. A witch ignorant of her powers and a vampire achingly aware of his emptiness. An unmaimed man, a cursed queen, a troubled marriage, a family just trying to survive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From an abandoned convent to a Martian classroom, an open-mic reading to a New Mexico mountaintop, these fantastical and imaginative tales will take you on a journey through impossible worlds, all-too-possible futures, and disquieting glimpses into the other side of reality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Featuring Michael Bunker, Peter Cawdron, Kate Danley, Anne Frasier, Sara Foster, Jason Gurley, Mel Hearse, Kev Heritage, Hugh Howey, Ernie Lindsey, Susan May, and Brian Spangler; and edited by David Gatewood. Includes a foreword by Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of <i>WOOL</i>.</span></span></div>
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Anne Frasierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11101098702957959372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260340660172798138.post-70608053666575692042014-01-26T09:24:00.001-09:302014-01-26T09:24:55.789-09:30THE LANGUAGE OF WINTER<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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I live in a church, which isn't easy to heat.<br />
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Enter the winter of 2013/2014. Twenty-seven BELOW ZERO IS THE NEW NORM.<br />
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To put this in perspective, I'd never experienced a low of -27 in my entire life until this winter, and this winter we just keep hitting that number, and it's rare for temps to get above zero during the day. Propane jumped from 1.43 per gallon to 5.50, which means it might cost 1K to heat my place for one month if I keep the thermostat at 58. I wear layers of clothing and move from a chair in front of a space heater to a bed with an electric blanket. Forget showers or washing hair.<br />
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<b>But then we have this. The language of winter.</b><br />
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It's hard to truly capture nature because the camera eliminates all but the visual, but there's a bleak beauty to winter than really seems to lend itself to the lens.<br />
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Here's my theory: Unlike the language of summer, which relies on sight and scent and touch,<b> winter can be a purely visual experience. What you capture is what you feel deep in your bones.</b><br />
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He was one of the most sought-after agents in the country, a
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I've talked about this before, but I was just telling
someone about the agent who asked me to add a murder to <i>The Orchard</i>. It would
of course have been published as fiction. Just my life story—with a freakin' murder
tacked on. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The truly amazing thing
is that I actually did it. I added a murder for this guy. But I quickly came to
my senses and had him withdraw the book from submission, fired (his word, not
mine) him, and tossed his murder idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Not only tossed it, but stomped on it with both feet. Our final conversation was my unsuccessful attempt to get him to understand why his idea was such a bad one. He would not budge.</span></div>
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This illustrates the danger of toxic creative input.</div>
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I've had some good agents in my career, and I might work
with an agent again under the right circumstances, maybe even a previous agent,
but I love being able to write without someone dictating the direction my
stories should take in order to have a product that can be sold to a particular
editor the agent has courted. </div>
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<b style="text-align: center;">How the agent thing works</b></div>
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Most agents, especially today, have lunch with editors, find
out what they're looking for, and tailor their writers to those luncheon discoveries.
This makes sense from the agent and editor perspective. Instead of blindly
submitting books, agents find out what editors are hungry for and deliver it,
but this leaves out so many good books that will never make it
into an editor's hands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
if you submit to an agent who replies with a rejection, chances are that agent
simply doesn't have an editor on her list looking for your kind of story.
Simple as that. This is one of the reasons big-name agents are more successful.
They know more editors, have lunch with more editors, and have a larger list of
story wants. The other thing about agents? An agent who's been around a long
time, an agent who's friends with many editors, that agent has no desire to
blindly shop a book. His career has moved beyond what to him is paying dues. </div>
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<b>The odds are against you in this game of feeding the hungry editor via the hungry agent</b></div>
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Say you tailor a project to an agent's
specifications—that agent has <b>nothing to lose and everything to gain</b>. But you,
on the other hand, might lose a year or two of writing <b>and income</b> while involved in this
common practice. I often wonder how many of these tailored books actually sell.
Like the percentage. I'm guessing it's small. Five percent? Fewer than that? Two percent? One? And
when the dust clears, when the rejections finally come back, the agent has two
hundred other writers to pull from, and those writers are all getting the exact
same spiel…but <b>you only have yourself </b>and the years you just wasted.</div>
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let's say dumped—by an agent I'd had for twenty years who had no interest in
submitting my memoir. Numbing blow. My self-worth as a writer dropped to
basement level, and my confidence was shaken to my bones. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn't trust anything I thought or
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the lowest
and most vulnerable point of my career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Why in the bloody hell would I agree to representation by
someone who told me to add a murder to my memoir? Looking at this with a
logical mind, it makes absolutely no sense, and it's scary to think I did what
he told me to do. That still freaks me out, and now I kind of understand how
the brain goes to such a weird place, and how people succumb to things like
Stockholm syndrome and cults and weirdasses like Jim Jones. When we are in that
state of having no faith in ourselves, of no longer trusting ourselves, it
happens. When someone powerful comes along and begins talking with 100% conviction,
we listen because we are lost and are no longer listening to our own voice. We
don't even know where our own voice has gone.</div>
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I've not given up on agents, because, like I said, I've had
a good one or two, but I'm working hard to get myself to a place where I no
longer need an agent (by self-publishing and signing with houses that don't require agented submissions) because it's too easy to stop listening to my own voice
when it comes to my art.</div>
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Not listening to yourself is where shitty books come
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And shitty music. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Creativity is a wonderful mystery, and
when someone else steps into that mystery it's no longer a mystery, it's a
product.</div>
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yourself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don't off yourself with
Kool-Aid. Don't add a murder to your memoir.</b></div>
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Anne Frasierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11101098702957959372noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260340660172798138.post-9806772578070892762013-12-31T12:30:00.000-09:302013-12-31T13:36:48.545-09:30THE INSPIRATION FOR MY CAT BOOKSWith the release of <i>Geek with the Cat Tattoo,</i> people have been asking if I have a cat. "You must have a cat! You know them so well!"<br />
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This is kind of a downer, but I thought I'd rerun a post from two and a half years ago. My cat of twenty years was the inspiration for the Cool Cats books. He and I actually had a conversation about it.<br />
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"I should write a book with a cat narrator," I told him. "What do you think? Maybe a romance. Readers have been asking for another romance." Of course he thought it was a great idea.<br />
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It's very strange, but I don't think I've gotten over losing him even though it's been more than two years. About a month after he died I had to fly to promotional events for Grand Central Publishing. A book gig in New Orleans was the first time I'd left the house, and I suddenly found myself at this long table at a fancy fancy fancy restaurant where each meal must have cost several hundred dollars. I was supposed to perform, but I just wanted to be home with the covers over my head. Weird to look back and realize I've been kind of shut off since then. Or at least not fully turned on. :D<br />
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To preface the following: I sometimes tweeted as him and called his tweets kitty memoirs.<br />
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June 5, 2011<br />
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His story...<br />
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“Yesterday I was put to sleep.” Kitty memoir<br />
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My story…<br />
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It shouldn’t hurt this much, but it’s like the death of a person. I wish I’d waited one more day. And one more day. I retrace the past week, I examine and wonder, and see the days through a different lens every time I look at them. One minute I think I waited too long, years too long. Another, I think I didn’t wait long enough. I wish he were with me right now. That’s all I know.<br />
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He was old. Almost twenty.<br />
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The last animal from what I call our old life, the life on the farm.<br />
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“He’s so charming,” people always said.<br />
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He loved it when a group of people got together and sat around talking and laughing. He loved the sound of laughter.<br />
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It’s like the death of a person.<br />
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He showed up on our farm as a kitten, probably a dump.<br />
“Don’t touch it,” I told my daughter, who was already mentally cuddling the animal. “It might have some disease.”<br />
“It has devil eyes,” my husband said. “Look at how it’s looking at me. Making eye contact.” There was fear in his voice. “Don’t feed it and it’ll leave.”<br />
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But the cat didn't leave, and we began calling him Latoya, thinking he was a female.<br />
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He hung around the corncrib and caught mice.<br />
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One day I found him there, sick. I took him to the vet.<br />
“Pneumonia,” the vet said. “Never seen a case this bad. If he lives, he’ll always be in bad health.” I found out he was a boy, not a girl.<br />
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So I took him home and put him in a box in the basement.<br />
“I don’t want that devil cat in the house,” my husband said.<br />
“What is he going to do? Put a spell on you?”<br />
“Maybe.”<br />
The cat recovered and he was returned to the outdoors. I got him neutered, but we continued to call him Latoya.<br />
He was always around. In the field near the house. In the evenings, when I went for a jog, he would follow me, get tired, and wait in the roadside ditch for me to return, then follow me home. I fed him, and he became my cat.<br />
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In 1994, I went on a trip.<br />
“Don’t forget to feed Latoya,” I told my son and husband. “I don’t want him roaming, searching for food.”<br />
While I was gone, my husband accidentally ran over Latoya with a sickle mower, a mower used to trim ditches. He was so mangled that he should have been put to sleep, but my son coaxed him out of the culvert where he’d gone to die. The vet did what he could. “I don’t think he’ll live, and he’ll never walk or use the litter box. Take him home, but you’ll probably need to have him put down.” Poor Latoya had two and a half legs, and half a tail. They’d shaved him, and he was as naked as a mole rat.<br />
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Over the next month, pieces of him fell off, but he slowly recovered, and the devil cat became a housecat. My constant companion.<br />
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He had no trouble getting around, and could even run and climb a tree if taken outside. Like the vet said, he had respiratory issues off and on his whole life. But he lived and lived and lived.<br />
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Two years ago, he was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism, but he couldn’t tolerate the medication. And as time passed, he got so he could no longer go up and down the stairs to sleep with me in my bed. His weight dropped from sixteen pounds to five.<br />
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I would spend evenings downstairs in the living room with him, watching television. He lost his hearing, and began to yowl if he thought he was alone. The social butterfly. A few days ago, my daughter came by and we realized he could hear us, and he enjoyed sitting with us as we talked and laughed. He still loved the sound of laughter.<br />
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This day has been coming for a long time, but I didn’t know it would hurt so much. He was a cat. A cat. But it feels like the death of a person. I don’t understand how humans bond so strongly with their pets, but it’s something profound and crazy and painful and maybe beautiful. I’m not sure about the beautiful. It hurts too much for beautiful.<br />
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Twenty years. He was with me through the death of my husband, my move from the farm to Iowa, my move to St. Paul, my move to Wisconsin. In the past several years, he required constant care. Because of that, my adult children and I took him with us when we went up north and stayed at a cabin for a week. I’m not sure if he enjoyed it, but he took it all in stride, the way he did everything.<br />
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I’ve had a lot of cats in my life, but he was special. Unique and almost human. I can’t believe he’s gone. The house is so empty. There’s a giant hole in my heart that I don’t think any other pet could ever fill.Anne Frasierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11101098702957959372noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260340660172798138.post-18709856442791715252013-12-30T08:35:00.001-09:302013-12-30T08:43:09.954-09:30GEEK WITH THE CAT TATTOO IS .99!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Something readers might not know is that one of the few ways writers can promote their books is through paid online advertising. And <b>most advertisers won't accept a book with less than TEN decent reviews.</b> (Goodreads reviews don't count when it comes to advertisers.) Sometimes they won't accept books with less than TWENTY Amazon reviews. So it's tough out there. <b>A cat needs all the help he can get.</b></span></span><br />
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I want to thank you for all the enthusiastic support you've given the Cool Cats books. I put <i>Girl with the Cat Tattoo</i> out there as an experiment -- to see if there was any interest in a romance told partially from a cat's POV. The answer was yes! People said the book made them happy, and it made me happy to write it, and it made me happy to hear it made readers happy. </div>
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And now the second and probably final book is out, <i>Geek with the Cat Tattoo</i>.</div>
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The unsurprising truth is that romances with a cat's POV simply don't sell very well even with the mad Max and Sam love. I changed the original cover in hopes that it would generate more sales because the original cat cover seemed to confuse non-romance readers and romance readers alike, but I can't change the cat narrator and the perception that a cat narrator is going to make books corny.</div>
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I hate to disappoint people, and I know readers will be sorry to hear the news of no third book, but writing is a business. It takes about two months to write a Cool Cats book, and to tell the truth the books hardly break even. I'd hoped they'd would sell well enough that I could just keep writing and writing them. As my agent used to say in response to poor sales, the readers have spoken.</div>
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It's a weird thing trying to get people to read something they think they're going to hate. I love the cat books. I loved writing them, and I think <i>Geek with the Cat Tattoo</i> might be the best romance I've ever written, but…</div>
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If by some fluke the books finally catch fire or I win the lottery and can write cat books until I'm a hundred, pretend you never read this blog post. ;)</div>
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BUT, what I most want to say is that it's been a fun journey, one I'm glad you took with me. Thanks for the support. Your response to the books brought me so much joy.</div>
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Max, Sam, and Theresa</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's December 20, which means <i>Geek with the Cat Tattoo</i> is now available from most online vendors! It's still too early to get a handle on overall response to the second book in the Cool Cat series, but early feedback has been very positive. With this story I tried to focus a bit more on the human relationship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Short blurb: Shy music geek Emerson Foshay breaks into a cold sweat and
is rendered speechless whenever Lola Brown, the girl of his dreams, steps into
his guitar shop. But once a stray cat named Sam follows him home, everything
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First online review: <a href="http://willaful.wordpress.com/2013/12/19/review-the-geek-with-the-cat-tattoo-by-theresa-weir/">A Willful Woman</a></span><br />
A- Recommended Read from <a href="http://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/overall-a-reviews/a-minus-reviews/review-the-geek-with-the-cat-tattoo-by-theresa-weir/">Dear Author</a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Interested in donating to a Twin Cities no-kill rescue group?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Consider <a href="http://felinerescue.org/">Feline Rescue</a> of St. Paul/Minneapolis</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(The paperback should be available on Amazon in a few days.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> <i><b>Girl With the Cat Tattoo</b></i> has some huge fans, but understandably sales of cat romance novellas aren't that great, so it was hard to justify time spent writing a second book. And yet I knew quite a few people wanted it and were waiting for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The other thing? The people who loved <b><i>Girl With the Cat Tattoo</i></b> REALLY loved it. I'm not sure how they'll feel about Geek. I suspect part of the love of the first book came from the novelty and tone of the story, and the reader will go into the second book without that element of surprise. I really like <b><i>Geek With the Cat Tattoo,</i></b> but I've never been a good judge of my own stuff. </span></div>
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<br />Anne Frasierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11101098702957959372noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1260340660172798138.post-13607071546558917562013-11-11T06:47:00.002-09:302013-11-11T06:47:44.176-09:30WRITING TIP<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Every story, no matter the genre, should contain truths that resonate with the reader.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> What do readers highlight in ebooks? What passages are highlighted again and again? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Those </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">things the reader relates to. Those passages that put words to unformed thoughts. ~</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Theresa Weir</i></div>
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