The following is a guest post by Betty Jean Craige, author of Fairfield’s Auction. Fairfield’s Auction is the second in the Witherston Murder Mysteries (published by Black Opal Books) set in the fictive town of Witherston in the southern Appalachian mountains of north Georgia. The first was Downstream, which came out in 2014, and the third is Dam Witherston, which will come out in 2017. Witherston is situated twenty miles north…
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Did You Know That Mark Twain Started Smoking When He Was 8 Years Old?
In fact, he loved cigars and found smoking very relaxing. Other fun facts about the author: His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His father died of pneumonia when he was 12, and Mark Twain became an apprentice printer at the Missouri Courier. Later, he wrote for local newspapers. The author also worked as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi river. He got his pen name, Mark Twain, from steamboat slang for 12…
Michael Schmicker
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The Witch of Napoli by Michael Schmicker
Tomaso Labella is a young photographer working for a local paper in Naples, Italy, when he takes a picture that makes his career: Alessandra Poverelli levitating a table during a private seance. For almost 20 years, Tomaso follows the medium as she travels around Europe while scientists study her. One man in particular is interested in Alessandra’s unusual abilities: Dr. Camillo Lombardi, a professor in abnormal psychiatry at the University of…
Betty Jean Craige
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From Non-Fiction to Fiction
The following is a guest post by Betty Jean Craige, author of Downstream. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. On Thursday, July 25, 2013, I was informed that the column I’d written for two years in the local newspaper of Athens, Georgia, was being discontinued. The column, titled “Cosmo Talks,” featured my loquacious African Grey parrot Cosmo and…