November 2009 – The World of the Blue Bells Trilogy

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Laura

The Night Writers held a book signing yesterday at Maple Grove Lutheran Church, with four of us signing books. In addition to Blue Bells of Scotland, Lyn Miller LaCoursiere was on hand with the fourth book, Sunsets, in her Lindy Lewis mysteries series, Inna Sicard with I Have Been Thinking…, a collection of very short stories and […]

Category:Authors, Writing

TaggedAuthor Talk, Author Tea, Blue Bells of Scotland, daily planner, Eye of the Serpent, Genny Kieley, I Have Been Thinking..., Inna Sicard, John Stanton, Justin Knauss, Lyn Miller LaCoursiere, Osseo School District, Ross Tarry, Sunsets, The Truth About Aliens UFO's and All That, Urquhart Castle

Posted on November 28, 2009 by Laura

It was brought to my attention that my bookbuzzr preview of Blue Bells of Scotland came out in a font difficult to read. I have updated that file and the prelude and chapter one are now in a larger and easier to read font. Scroll down and look on the left hand side of my […]

Category:Authors, Book Tour, Writing

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Posted on November 27, 2009 by Laura

I confess, I read only books that I find in thrift stores. There are two reasons for this, one of which I might admit to another day! and one of which I will say now: it feels a little bit like a treasure hunt. My recent find was two novels by Jack Finney, the first of […]

Category:Authors, Time Travel, Writing

TaggedAudrey Niffenegger, Blue Bells of Scotland, Christopher Reeve, Diana Gabaldon, H.G. Wells, In the Keep of Time, Jack Finney, Mackinac Island, Margaret J. Anderson, Michael Crichton, Outlander, Somewhere in Time, The Gray Ghost, The Time Machine, Time Travel, Time travel fiction, Time Traveler's Wife, Timeline, witchcraft

Posted on November 20, 2009November 20, 2009 by Laura

For some background information on this article, it is important to know that Bruce lived from 1274 until 1329, 200 years before Martin Luther’s 95 Theses and before Henry VIII made his split from the Catholic Church. In other words, in his day to be Christian was to be Catholic. And Bruce himself seems to have been a […]

Category:Clan History, Great Figures of Medieval Scotland, Politics, Robert the Bruce, Scottish History

TaggedAbbot of Inchaffray, Bannockburn, Battle of Bannockburn, Blue Bells of Scotland, Bruce, catholic, Declaration of Arbroath, excommunication, John Comyn, Pope John XXII, Red Comyn, Robert Bruce, St. Columba, St. Fillan

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Laura

The second review on my blog tour went up yesterday at The Historical Novel Review, the Guide to Exceptional Historical Fiction. I would like to thank Mirella Patzer for her time, and highly recommend her site to all lovers of historical fiction. She and a team of four reviewers, Vanitha, Miranda, Anita, and Lisa, writers and […]

Category:Authors, Book Tour, Reviews

Taggedblog tour, Blue Bells of Scotland, Historical Novel Review, Mirella Patzer, Reviews, virtual tour

Month: November 2009

Book Signing

Bookbuzzr Updated

Methods of Time Travel in Fiction

Ex-Communicated. Again.

Thank you, Mirella