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In the online business and professional writing class that I teach for NMSU, I always remind my students that business writing can have a very long shelf-life, and consequently, you don’t always know who will see it over time. It’s a cautionary guideline to be very conscious of what you’re writing – sort of like those emails or twitters that get seen by the wrong person. You just never know where your words are going to wind up.

Yesterday I got to experience that personally, but thankfully, in a very good way. I got an email from a woman blogger who asked my permission to include a poem I wrote in 1995 in an online book she’s working on. Her book will be inspirational quotes and poems for mothers… ...more...

I’ll be signing my Birder Murder books at Jim Gilbert’s Wild Bird Store in Waconia, MN, this Thursday night from 5 to 8 pm. Pat Anderson has decked the store out with beautiful holiday gift ideas and decor, and we’ll have treats and specials on hand for all those attending. I just discovered the store this summer and it’s become one of my favorite spots to browse, since Pat has a fabulous inventory of home gift items, baby gifts, tea, books, locally produced ceramic dishware and birdseed. It’s not just for birdwatchers anymore! Hope you can join us for some early holiday cheer!

And my books continue to find new readers…I just read a lovely review of the newest book, Falcon Finale, on the Birding Is Fun

I can’t believe it. It looks like a Scott’s Oriole has been sighted in Duluth, MN, just three hours from my home. What’s unusual about that is that a Scott’s Oriole is a bird native to the southwest. What’s even odder (is that an oxymoron?) is that my Bob White characters see a Scott’s Oriole in my most recent release, Falcon Finale, when they go to Arizona. And now they could have stayed home and seen one right here in Minnesota!

This has happened to me before with these books: bird events that echo my book events. For the first book, it was an influx of Boreal Owls (normally very hard to find) in northern Minnesota the winter after the book The Boreal Owl Murder debuted in September 2008… ...more...