Author Archives: Lynne

Of Horses, Humans, and Healing

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Of course, it’s not only horses; it’s most animals that respond to human attention, nurture, and love on what is very much a two-way street. I wrote about my beautiful therapy Labrador retriever, Hannah, in Where The Trail Grows Faint, a memoir of her antics while she and I worked in a nursing home at… Continue Reading

Reunions

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I’ve just come home from a big family reunion in Florida. It was actually my second reunion of the year, the first having been in Connecticut, a three-day extravaganza of my high school graduating class. Fortunately, that one was in October and I’ve had two months to recover from a great deal of laughter, dancing,… Continue Reading

Getting There is Not Half The Fun

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When Google maps swears that a drive to New England from southwestern Ohio is absolutely going to take sixteen hours and twenty-one minutes, you can be completely sure that Mr. Google Maps is a gold-level member of the Pinnochio Club.  Like a certain person to whom I am married.  My husband and Mr. Google Maps… Continue Reading

Award for A Matter of Mercy

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A Matter of Mercy won the Independent Publishers Silver Medal for Best North-East Fiction last week.  It has a shiny new medallion on the cover.  Kristina Makansi of Blank Slate Press, my publisher, will be in New York City at Book Expo America and will represent me at the award ceremony.  Of course, it’s gratifying to see… Continue Reading

My Facebook Wedding

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I must have gotten engaged without realizing it.  All I know is this:  my sister called and said I’d posted something on Facebook about how another author’s book was an overnight best seller with no marketing effort.  She wanted to know why my publisher doesn’t use this obviously brilliant system for A Matter of Mercy. “I… Continue Reading

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