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Friday Reads 9.22.26 (opens the original)
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Welcome, at last, FALL. Blessed Mabon to us all. I hope your evenday was a good one, full of reflection and spicy candles to welcome the season to come.I’m all in on this, by the way. I’m sipping some amazing cinnamon tea gifted by my friend Liv Constantine; the pumpkins are on the counter, mantel, and table; my favorite little witch painting is up in my office; my fall candles are out; the wreath is on the door; and thank all that’s holy, the heat wave has finally broken. We had a little rain,
Friday Reads 9.11.26 (opens the original)
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Hi, hello, happy Friday, and welcome back to another week of random thoughts on life and books. As always on this somber day, I send my deepest sympathies to those who lost loved ones. You are forever in my thoughts. We will never forget.Today is a good day to talk about beginnings and remind you that life is short. When you are not wearing the skin you are supposed to wear, life can be very contentious. It will show up in myriad ways, from a vague sense of dislocation to genuine dissatisfaction
Friday Reads 9.4.26 (opens the original)
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Hi, hello, happy Friday, and welcome back to another week of random thoughts on life and books. PHEW! It has been a week. My event with Naughty Dog books in Nashville, Indiana, tonight (more info) is my 9th of the week. (Here’s one of my faves.) I have two more, Monday and Tuesday, and then a glorious TEN-DAY BREAK!I wish I could say I will be takin
Friday Reads 8.28.26 (opens the original)
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Hi, hello, happy Friday, and welcome back to another week of random thoughts on life and books. I am crashing hard on deadline, and it’s release week, which means I am up to my ears in alligators. Can you imagine? It’s a rather hysterical image, but fitting.And it’s been full of highs and lows, joys and tragedies, which is how life runs, when we think about it. But one of the bastions of our lives, Dolly Parton, passed away this week and the outpouring of love for her has been incredible to watc
YOU KNOW WHY Q&A (opens the original)
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Interview with J.T. Ellison1. You have been writing thrillers for 20 years. How does YOU KNOW WHY fit into the arc of your career? What does it represent for you?This is my 34th novel, which in and of itself is utterly remarkable to me. It’s been a busy twenty years, making up lost time for those years after college when I wasn’t writing. And this story comes from a wellspring of deep emotion from a time in my life that was rather difficult. To finally conquer those emotions, marry them to such
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