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Carole Hill on the Wagon

September 2, 2023 /
Author Carole Hill dancing

Author Carole Hill out “party-hardy-ing”–dining, wining, and dancing till the wee hours!

Not sure how much work is going to get done this month.  Carole Hill, my collab partner, went ‘on holiday’, as she so eloquently described it when she flew off for three weeks in France. 

And what did she do in France?  Lots of food, lots of wine, lots of G&Ts, lots of shopping.  In a word, she played—decadently played. 

What did I do? 

I was slaving away on my keyboard, yes, I was. 

I don’t get holidays.  I don’t get to go ‘on holiday’.  I get to work my fingers till they bleed on the keyboard.  Meanwhile, Carole went off to dine, wine, and dance …decadently …as you can see in this lovely photo she shared.

Now that she’s home, she’s taking September to ‘dry out’.  She’s sworn off all alcohol and all tasy, fattening foods after indulging most all of August. 

How’s that going to work? 

I’m guessing it’s time to seek cover, because there is nothing more dangerous than a woman denied food and favorite beverages—the elixer of life—right?  …So I’m told anyway. 

Beware September in Portugal.  Carole Hill is on the wagon.

Book Number 2 is Coming Along….

August 5, 2023 /

“What is a ‘sprog’?” ask I of my British collaborator. 

In the latest back-and-forth sends of the present manuscript—book two of Sophia and Aaron’s tempestuous love story—that term stopped me dead in the water.  Me?  I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Western American, but one who, admittedly, has lived in Europe and visited the UK in decades past. While I am decently educated, versed in several languages, most of them ‘dead’, ‘sprog’ is one word that made my eyebrows squiggle.

Carole proceeded to ed-ja-ma-cate me with delightfully bubbly laughter and a bit of drollery thrown in.  (Carole is kind and patient with confused Americans, a good thing when you’re the confounded American.)  “A newborn, a baby,” said she. 

“Oh.”  Cute.  And it is.  Visions of fully-formed baby frogs immediately flooded my mind-sight.

This is the sort of thing that happens on a daily basis in collaborating together on these books.  She’ll say, ‘We don’t say it like that!’.  I’ll say, “We don’t do it like that,” and so it goes. 

In the writing of this love saga, I’ve learned a whole lot, and I’m loving it.  She says she has, too.

So when will book 2 be out?  We hope soon.  Thinking toward the end of September. 🙂

Jessica Anderson K-9 Mystery book 6, Troubled Pursuit

          

An anthology of short stories and poetry, including short stories by Carole Hill.

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