Happy New Year! Today is the first day of the new year and with it comes the start of this year’s Read Another Page Reading Challenge! If you’ve participated before, pay attention because I’m going things a little differently this year. I wanted to m...

Welcome to the final day of the Five Fall Favorites 2025. It’s going to be sad to say goodbye and not come looking for more books every day. But my TBR pile, at least, will thank me. How am I going to read all these books? Do you need some pumpkin sc...

Congratulations! You’ve made it to Friday without having to be dug out of a collapsed TBR pile! Do you have a mountain range now? Kind of hard not to if you have been visiting every single blog who is participating. It’s a chilly, rainy day. Perfect...

You came back? You mean you are surviving your TBR stack? I’m very happy to see you today and I do hope your back can handle a loaded backpack. You sure you don’t want to borrow a wagon? If you change your mind, come on back and get one. I have a bon...

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another full day of the Five Fall Favorites! Did you make it through yesterday without any bag handles breaking under the weight of your new books? I have a couple extra wagons if you need to borrow them. Come on, let’s...

You came back! I guess your TBR stack didn’t fall over during the night. Or did it and you don’t want to crawl under your bed to retrieve those books, so you are just going to start another stack? Either way, I’m so happy to see you again. There are...

Welcome to the Five Fall Favorites 2025 edition! This is our 10 year anniversary of this fun and very bookish blog party! Come on in and let’s get started. If you’ve been here before, you probably have your bags, and wagons, and totes ready for the l...

Can you believe this year will be the 10th year we’ve done the Five Fall Favorites blog party? That’s a LOT of books! The genres this year are so fun and I can’t wait to share them with you all! If you are a blogger and would like to join the fun and...

I know, it’s not Tuesday! But I’m going to post anyway because I have some exciting news to share! The last of the Woodbreak series is finally published! Yes, you can now get your copy of Katie Wood and finish the series. This book was the most diffi...

I did a lot of things in April! I was very busy and it doesn’t seem possible that it is May already! But what did I do? In April I . . . In April I didn’t . . . Not at all. Not one single, solitary word on any story. I don’t know the […]

Happy June!Oh, wait. It's been June for 18 days. You are probably used to June now. Well, I don't care. Has anyone wished you a Happy June until now? Yeah, I didn't think so. Now you have.I'm busy. It seems to be a chronic thing with me. Might as wel...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-6, Issue 1From the Editor's Desk:Oh dear. It's been almost a month since I sent one of these things out! Maybe I need to starting writing and sending them on a different day of the week since my Saturdays seem to keep filling...

How did I forget April?I was sure I had written to you last month, but apparently not. April disappeared and now it's the middle of May! Writing has been slow. In April I managed to write 4k words. This month I'm closer to 7k, and still hoping that m...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-5, Issue 1From the Editor's Desk:Good morning! And a special hello to my cousins who are almost always the first to click on this email. :D It's a beautiful morning here! A light breeze stirs the leaves of the trees, the bird...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-4, Issue 1From the Editor's Desk:Spring! The sun is shining and all is quiet this morning. We don't have the windows open yet as I think it might still be in the 50s. I am starting this before breakfast as I have plans for to...