October
2019
Oh, boy! Not only does Mercedes Louise Allcutt’s
first adventure, LOST AMONG THE ANGELS, come out in October (October 8, if
Amazon is to be believed), but my grandson and his family will visit me the
first week in October! Yippee! Haven’t seen them since around Christmas time in
2013. My great-grandchildren, Andrew and Kasumi, have grown a trifle since
then.
After their visit, Daigoro (grandson, who is in
the army and has been for what seems like forever) will be deployed for a year.
He’s at Fort Bliss in El Paso at the moment, and then he’ll fly far, far away.
And be safe, god willin’ and the crick don’t rise.
This is actually the second time LOST AMONG THE
ANGELS has been published. Five Star published it first, and now ePW is having
a go at it. Love the new covers for the Mercy books:
I’ll probably have the year’s last surgery in
October, too. Not quite as excited about the surgery as I am aout seeing my family and a
book being republished, but at least my year of living surgically will be over.
Who knows what 2020 will bring besides a census, a lot of dogs, trying new
recipes, remaking oldies and goodies, and writing several books (I hope). The
latest x-rays of my various replaced body parts revealed that my right hip is
no longer being assisted by cartilage in carting me around, so it’ll have to be
replaced sometime or other, but I’m going to wait until it starts to hurt to
deal with it. Pretty soon I’ll be made of metal. I don’t, however, feel the
least bit bionic.
Daisy Gumm Majesty’s next adventure (I think it’s
#15) will be published in December of this year. Wish I had the cover art; I’d
show it to you. I can, however, give you the Amazon Kindle link if you’d like
to pre-order it. Not that I’m greedy or anything, but it would be nice to make
a living. Gotta keep the hounds, semi-hound, Chihuahua and mixed terriorist in
kibble after all:
By the way, in case you ever wondered about my
fur herd, here they are. This is from Christmas in 2018:
Jazzy (the Beautiful Blue Wiener and Queen of
all She Surveys) is sniffing my shoulder; Scrappy (the Chihuahua) is looking to
escape; Bam-Bam, my winner-picking wiener dog, is appalled that I actually
picked him up (he spent his first couple of years in a puppy mill and has never
quite recovered); Cookie, the mixed terriorist, is checking out Scrappy’s ear
to see if she needs to take a bite out the one she hasn’t already nibbled; and
Bella-the-Biter (semi-wiener), with whom I have deep, meaningful conversations
from time to time, just looks kind of confused. I also taught Bella to
high-five. First dog I’ve taught a trick to since I was in the fifth grade or
thereabouts. Most of the dogs who have lived with me have taught me tricks. Oh, and that’s me in the
background. In other words, life as usual, but I still need to feed the herd!
So buy a book or two, 'kay? Thank you.
I apologize profusely for not getting in touch with
all the people who won copies of the audio edition of DARK SPIRITS, narrated by
Denice Stradling, who makes a great Daisy. She’s working on SPIRITS ONSTAGE
now. I love that book (ONSTAGE, I mean. I was appalled by Daisy’s bratty
behavior in DARK SPIRITS, truth to tell). I will attempt to justify my
procrastination soon. Haven’t been feeling tippy-toppy recently. I’ll get over
it, whatever it is. Or I won’t. And then all my troubles will be over! I think
there’s an old spiritual with a similar title. Hmmm. Must look it up. Aha!
Found it. Peter, Paul and Mary dug it up out of the gospel-spiritual heap and
recorded it during the hectic 1960s-1970s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38bHXC8drHc
Um, I’ll probably give away a couple of copies
of LOST AMONG THE ANGELS at the end of October, because… well, why not? If
you’d like to be entered into my giveaway for October, please send me an email
at alice@aliceduncan.net, and I’ll toss your
name into Bam-Bam’s special doggie dish. Bam-Bam will select wieners at the end
of October.
Anything else? Well, there’s always Daisy Daze.
I love Daisy Daze. Iris Evans and
Leon Fundenberger founded the DAISY DAZE Facebook page. On this page, people
post all sorts of historical stuff about Pasadena, sewing machines,
automobiles, buildings, fashions from the 1920s, houses in which the people in
the books might live, stars of the silent screen, and lots and lots of other
historical (1920s-era) stuff. It’s fun, and if you’d like to be a member, check
it out here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/905100189878318/ .
If you’d like to visit my web page, here’s the
link: http://aliceduncan.net/ . If you’d like to be
Facebook friends, please go here: https://www.facebook.com/alice.duncan.925
And I think that’s it. Thank you.
2 comments:
My father was a defense contractor and he spent many years at White Sands. So glad you are re-releasing the Mercy books and looking forward to the next Daisy.
It's an interesting place, isn't it? Thanks, Bea! I'm happy about re-releasing the Mercy books, too. Of course, this means I'll have to write more of them, but I'll struggle along, I reckon :-)
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