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Category Archives: Kate’s Posts
Brilliance Before the Dark
Kate Flora: It is one of those days, or weekends, or weeks, when I’ve had a dozen great ideas for blog posts and cannot seem to choose among them or get organized to write them. So tonight, as I was … Continue reading
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To Market, To Market . . .
Kate Flora here, with a blog about marketing. Hang on, though, because I’m not really trying to sell you something. I’m just babbling a bit today about the trials of being graphically challenged. It began long ago. I couldn’t color … Continue reading
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A Vocabulary for Fall
Kate Flora: When my boys were little, we used to have word lists posted on the refrigerator both to improve their vocabularies, and to encourage creativity and kindness in their name-calling. My family has always had a fascination with word … Continue reading
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Introducing Death Warmed Over – A Thea Kozak mystery
Kate Flora: I originally wrote this book more than four years ago, and it has wandered through the world of publishing ever since. After several years of waiting for a publisher to get around to it, I decided to publish it … Continue reading
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Tagged Death Warmed Over, Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly, S.J. Rozan, Thea Kozak
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When a Writer’s Not Engaged in Her Employment
Kate Flora: You may recall that a post or two ago, I declared that I was going to spend my summer exploring indolence. At that time, I had visions of sitting in a white rocking chair on my porch, devouring novels … Continue reading
Creative Ways to Support Your Local Bookstore
Kate Flora: Let’s face it–it is so easy to click onto Amazon and order that we often default to that mode. But readers who love books, and bookstores, and browsing the shelves or asking the staff for suggestions, know that if … Continue reading
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