Sisters In Crime

Pam on September 18th, 2011

To lighten the tone after my last cranky post, here’s a snapshot taken yesterday at Barnes & Noble, Valencia, California. Kwei Quartey is the author of the Inspector Darko Dawson Mystery series, the most recent of which is CHILDREN OF THE STREET. Kwei is a delightful guy and I’m always glad to see him. He [...]

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January 12, 2011 – Santa Paula, CA – The earliest of California’s 35+ lighthouses have protected its coastal waters for over 160 years, and are thus a big part of the state’s history. According to local So. Cal. author Pam Ripling (who also writes as Anne Carter), these iconic symbols of protection, guidance and times [...]

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Pam on January 4th, 2011

Happy New Year. Have been thinking about what to say, but I’m so late I’m afraid all the good topics have already been written. And it’s already the 4th; folks are probably DONE hearing about how bad the ending of LOST was, how sad it was when so-and-so passed away, how shocking it was to [...]

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Pam on May 23rd, 2010

It’s not writer’s block. I’ve never really experienced it to any degree. What I do experience is the inability to write due to guilt. Good old-fashioned shame over wanting to write when I have other stuff going undone. Trivial, unimportant stuff like paying the bills. Making dinner for the family. Moving the laundry along. Taking [...]

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Pam-Anne on February 25th, 2010

For those of you not “in the know” – “La-La Land” is the not-so-affectionate nickname of our City of Angels (originally El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula or The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion); some just call it “Smell-A” (nasty, ain’t it?) Why [...]

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Pam-Anne on January 5th, 2010

Aside from the notion that I am, in fact, going mad, everything seems to be fine. Everyone is quick to say, “2010 will be better!” Even in the bank today, a customer—a stranger to me—called out the same, asking for my concurrence. I do believe that people everywhere are ready to feel better. They are [...]

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Pam-Anne on December 12th, 2009

I must say I am absolutely loving this rain. It helps to make one feel like it’s really holiday time, despite the fact that it seems we just packed up Christmas a month ago. School’s Out School is done, for now. Political Science was a great class, I learned a ton of stuff that I [...]

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Pam-Anne on October 11th, 2009

Have you heard the simile, “busier than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs”? That’s one of my favorites, and a good descriptor of my last week. Started off last weekend with my attendance—or should I be saying “appearance”—at the Duarte Festival of Authors. What a fun day! Not only did I [...]

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Pam-Anne on September 30th, 2009

Suffering. I made some kind of mistake, not knowing (well, if we knew when we were making mistakes, we wouldn’t make them, duh!) and now I am trying to fix it. It’s not an easy thing to fix, either. My day was going pretty well, too. The thing is, I’m the kind of person that [...]

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Pam-Anne on August 14th, 2009

The eBook scene is heating up. I have Google alerting me daily on all things digital-book, and every day there is new information coming down the pike.

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