HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To
help welcome 2018 on a jolly note, here’s the Gnu Song
As
for 2017, I’m glad to see its hind end. It was a rough year for a lot of folks,
including me. My best friend died and so did most of my household appliances,
computers, etc.; and the various hounds required repairs of their own (as did
I), so the stupid year was expensive as well as icky. As for my physical
condition, it continues to pain me, but I’m more or less healthy. The surgery I
had in 2017 was the least painful I’ve ever experienced. I never anticipated I’d
ever compose a sentence like that one.
Sigh. Hoping for a better year in 2018 for ALL OF US!
Now
for a little catch-up. First of all, thanks to everyone who downloaded HUNGRY
SPIRITS when it was on sale for 99 cents. I appreciate all the downloads, and
I’d appreciate reviews on Amazon or Barnes and Noble, too, if you feel so
inclined. If you don’t, that’s okay, too. I’m easy.
The
winners of my November contest, whom I failed to acknowledge in December, are
as follows:
Shirley
Malatino won a copy of THANKSGIVING ANGELS
Julianne
Sparks won a copy of PECOS VALLEY REVIVALEdward Washington won a copy of HIGH SPIRITS
Margaret (Lynn) Lind won a copy of SIERRA RANSOM
I will attempt to get your books sent out the first week in January!
Now
for December’s contest:
Carolyn
Booth and Jackie Stieghorse each won a copy of UNSETTLED SPIRITS
Vickie
Shaw and Debra Guyette each won a copy of BRUISED SPIRITS
Congrats!
I’ll attempt to get these books, too, sent in the coming week.
Okay,
so what else is new? Um . . . not a whole lot, actually. I finished my next
Daisy book and sent it to the publisher, but I have no idea when SPIRITS
UNEARTHED will be published. Now I have to write SHAKEN SPIRITS. Whoopee. Can
you tell how excited I am about writing book after book and having so very
little to show for it? Well, I sure am.
However,
now is not the time to whine. It’s the time to announce January’s contest! Let
me see . . . what should I give away at the end of January? How about a few
more hardbacks? At the end of January, I’ll have Bam-Bam, my winner-picking
wiener dog (and probably my fave of my current pack, although I’d appreciate
you not telling the other dogs), pick two winners of GENTEEL SPIRITS and two
winners of THANKSGIVING ANGELS! I’m fond of both of those books, although,
thanks to my not-so-brilliant idea of having Daisy and Sam show up in Mercy
Allcutt’s book (THANKSGIVING ANGELS), I can’t get Daisy and Sam married until
after Thanksgiving of 1926. Sometimes I wonder where (and why) my wits go
begging. Oh, well.
Here’s
a note about postage and my monthly contests. I love giving my work to people;
however, I found out quite by accident a few months ago that sending books to
Great Britain, Australia, and other countries outside the United States is
beyond my monetary capability. If a resident of a nation other than the United
States has an e-reader, I’ll happily supply that person with an e-book. If a
person doesn’t have an e-reader and still likes to read book-books, he or she
is on his or her own. I’m sorry, but what I laughingly call my writing career
hasn’t made me wealthy yet. And it probably won’t, but let’s not get in to that
because it always depresses me. So. That’s that.
If
you’d like to enter January’s contest, just send me an email (alice@aliceduncan.net) and give me
your name and home address. If you’d like to be added to my mailing list, you
may do so on my web site (http://aliceduncan.net/) or email me
(you won’t be smothered in e-mails, because I only write one blog a month, and
that’s an effort). If you’d like to be friends on Facebook, visit my page at https://www.facebook.com/alice.duncan.925.
Thank
you!
