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Maine Crime Writers enter the Blogosphere
Today, July 6th, we celebrate ten years of blogging as Maine Crime Writers. The cast of characters is ever changing but the mission remains the same: to make readers aware of the talents and diversity of crime writers in Maine, … Continue reading
Posted in Kate's Posts
Tagged Brunswick Maine, Camden Public Library, crime writing, Gerry Boyle, Group Post, James Hayman, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Lea Wait, Leslie Wheeler, Maine Crime Writers, mysteries, mystery writing, New England Crime Bake, Sisters in Crime, social media, Tess Gerritsen, Thea Kozak mysteries, Union Maine, Vicki Doudera
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Romantic Suspense, Kate? Really?
Kate Flora: When I announced to people who know me that my new book, Wedding Bell Ruse, (ebook ISBN 9781647160876) published tomorrow, is romantic suspense, people asked me why the switch? Am I going in a new direction? It is quite a switch to … Continue reading
Ten Years After…No Band Involved
John Clark in a holding pattern with the rest of the family, awaiting the arrival of Reid James Lozefski, our first grandson. Ten years ago, I got so weirded out after removing 34 deer ticks while in the woods at … Continue reading
Posted in John Clark
Tagged Acorns, Deer ticks, dreams, hunting, John Clark, Sennebec Hill Farm, Union Maine
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She Wrote a Book Once
Kate Flora: As many of you have read, if you’ve followed this blog for a while, my late mother, A. Carman Clark, published her first mystery, The Maine Mulch Murder, featuring 60-something freelance editor and gardener Amy Creighton, when she was 83. https://amzn.to/2KcJsSI She … Continue reading
Senebec Hill Stuffing
Today we feature a “Ghost post” from John Clark and Kate Flora’s late mother, A. Carman Clark. Country living writer, journalist, newspaper editor, and, late in life, a mystery writer, Mrs. Clark always had a wry way of looking at … Continue reading
A bit of Nostalgia
I wrote this many years ago. Last week, wandering around the edge of the family berry patch got me remembering it. Blueberry Summers Beth waited while I looked around the new room, hunting for the Shedd’s peanut butter pail. … Continue reading
Role Models?
Kate Flora here, watching the snow come down. For lunch today, I was eating a bowl of lentil soup and reading about Diana Nyad in the New Yorker. When I was growing up on a farm in Union, Maine, I … Continue reading
The Scents and Sounds of Summer
Kate Flora, amazed that suddenly it is August and there is already an unwanted nip in morning air. As I’m sinking into a new book, and feeling like I need a tune-up, I’ve been trying to do some of the … Continue reading
Posted in Kate's Posts
Tagged Baba Ram Das, Bailey Island, Beyond Your Doorstep, Hal Borland, Joe Burgess, Thea Kozak, Union Maine
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Dreaming
When I was growing up on a chicken farm in a small Maine town, money was often tight. Bill collectors really did knock on the door, sometimes the phone got turned off, and there was a large hole in the … Continue reading
Posted in Kate's Posts
Tagged 4-H, Chosen for Death, Deputy Chief Joseph K. Loughlin, Edgar Awards, Finding Amy, Grub Street, Kate Flora, Katherine Hall Page, Lea Wait, Maine Literary Awards, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Paul Doiron, Redemption, Sears and Roebuck, Thea Kozak, Union Maine, Vose Library
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Blueberries for All!
(Note: A slightly different version of this column appeared here last summer. But It’s blueberry season again, and there are more of you reading this, so I thought it would be fun to run it again.) Kate Flora: For my 55th … Continue reading
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