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Interview with the hero from His Little Cowgirl by Brenda Minton

1. Cody Jacobs, tell me the most interesting thing about you.

I’m a bull rider and close to winning the world title. Six months ago I realized that I’m an alcoholic.

2. What do you do for fun?

Ride bulls. And these days, I like spending time with my little girl.

I posted this a few weeks ago over at Struggling Writers.  Christyne responded (Ta!)  Since then, I've been doing a little better.  I'm up to nearly 7k of my WIP, and I've only been over it about 12 times - but I'm still moving forward. 

The Christmas Kite Journey
by Gail Gaymer Martin

I have a serious backlog problem (just in case you haven't noticed) given that it's the 12th and I've only blogged 5 books so far

there are a few preprepared in my blog doc file but not as many as I'd like

An interesting thing happened yesterday. Well interesting to me.
I was skimming one the digests of a group I belong to and in particular
the conversation of one gal who was frustrated after two years of

Fifteen years ago, my husband and I moved from sprawling Los Angeles County to a small semi-rural Northern California community.  We’d both grown up in the city--him in Beverly Hills (really!) and me the L.A. suburb of Hawthorne.  We were used to lots of pavement and a pretty faceless society.  We knew our immediate neighbors and had family nearby, but we never had much of a sense of community where we lived.

Hey there,

I was wondering what you ladies might do when every day life takes over and sometimes you can't get to your writing or can't concentrate?

Do you have any little tricks, tips or things you do to keep yourself going?

I teach middle school.  That's 6th, 7th and 8th grades.  Granted, some of my students are middle teens, such as 14 and 15, but that's rare.  However, the other day, i caught one of my students reading a book by Lora Leigh.