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Deborah Anderson
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Aug 27
A Daughter, A Wedding, and Nieces, Oh My!
This summer was one for the record books. Numerous long-distance road trips, and helping organize, shop, prepare, and lose sleep over potential forgotten details for daughter’s wedding, along with a week-long (whee!) sleepover with my nieces the week before the wedding (they were the loveliest of flower girls) kept me hopping the last six weeks. And oh, what a blast we had! The …
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Jul 10
Priceless Tidbits
When you live in a small rural town with an even smaller library, the Internet is often extremely helpful, if only to help narrow the focus to one or two excellent resources the librarian can have brought in, or one can order online. And every now and then, you come across a priceless tidbit that requires no pre-ordering, …
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Jul 09
Live. Laugh. Love.
Live. Laugh. Love. These three words crown the French doors leading to my deck. I put them there, in plain view of the living room sofa and recliner, to remind me what’s important in life. When things get tough, as they do at times, I only need to look up: Live, Laugh, Love. And I do. Deborah …
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Jun 14
Celebrate the Small Things FRIDAY!
Short and sweet, what I’m celebrating this week: Hubby fixed the lawn mower. And the weed-whacker. And the truck’s tailgate. My cousin and his wife welcomed their first baby, a beautiful 8lb girl, on Wednesday! My yard is a colorful palette of blooming Irises, Peonies, Pansies, and other bright shrubs, the names of which I know …
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Jun 14
The Hard Way
My first novel, Everything That Matters, is in the competent hands of a BETA reader, but that does not mean I am resting on my laurels, or lounging by the pool (if I had one) sipping Electric Lemonade (mix me one?). No, I am hard at work on ETM’s sequel, All That Matters, and when …
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Jun 01
Friday…Celebrate the Small Things!
Sneaking in another Celebrate the Small Things post… What I’m celebrating this week… 1) A great weekend away last weekend to cheer on youngest at his lacrosse tournament. 2) Another showing this week, and the potential buyers are coming back next week for a second walk-through. Yippee! 3) Learned how to turn off the u/g sprinklers during …
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May 24
Celebrate the Small Things Friday
Another great week and wonderful things to celebrate… 1) I am half-way through the initial review pass of ALL THAT MATTERS, and I cried too many times to count; I even had to walk away from the edits because I was so emotional. This is definitely worth celebrating. It’s also kind of surreal. 2) …
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May 17
Friday Round Up
Well, it’s been a busy week. And a good week. I created more pages on my website, and I started reviewing (and editing, of course, because I can’t read without fixing) the sequel to Everything That Matters. All That Matters is about 3/4 complete (245 pages or so) and I haven’t looked at it in …
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May 10
If it’s Friday, it must be time to Celebrate The Small Things!
I joined Celebrate the Small Things Friday blog hop a while ago. The inspiration of Viklit over at Scribblings of an Aspiring Author. And great inspiration it is! I have much to celebrate this week. On Monday, I finished the second-pass polish edits on my novel, Everything That Matters, and on Wednesday I sent it to …
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May 02
Did it!
I finished the edits on Everything That Matters (working title). At least I believe so. I still have to print off another hard copy and review, ensure I did not miss any nits found by my daughter, or miss–or double-up-on–chapter numbers, headings, etc., but as far as the heavy work goes (as in, rewriting the majority …
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