Short stories are great for the busy season

A Collection of Short Fiction 

by Joan L. Cannon

A collection of widely published and, in some cases, award-winning short stories from well-respected novelist Joan L. Cannon. All the stories contain rich detail of both language and imagery. They are wide-ranging, with a variety of characters, experiences, and settings and are told in a unique style that is well- seasoned with both wit and insight.

LEFT-OVER TURKEY

CROCK POT SOUP

• 
  

• 2 quarts chicken broth
• 1 turkey carcass, skin and meat removed
• 1 onion, quartered
• 2 carrots, halved lengthwise
• 3 celery stalks, halved lengthwise
• 2 bay leaves

• 1 cup chopped carrots
• 1/3 cup chopped celery
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 2 cups penne pasta
• 3 cups chopped cooked turkey
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup (optional)

Directions

• Prep
  20 m
• Cook
  10 h
• Ready In
  10 h 20 m

1. Combine chicken broth, turkey carcass, onion quarters, carrot halves, celery halves, and bay leaves in a slow cooker.
2. Cook on High for 4 hours. Carefully strain broth, discard solids, and transfer broth to a bowl. Rinse slow cooker.
3. Pour broth back into slow cooker; add chopped carrots, chopped celery, and chopped onion.
4. Cook on Low for 3 hours. Add penne pasta to slow cooker; cook for 2 1/2 more hours.
5. Mix turkey meat and cream of mushroom soup into soup and cook for 30 more minutes.

Catching UP!

Galleys that went to press or went back to press this week:

WENDELL & TYLER: WE'RE OFF! by James Kincaid

    Even their guidebooks – Worst Places to Eat, Wackiest Roadside Attractions, and Don’t Go Here! – offer no guidance. These two 16-year-olds are off on a summer-long road trip, from Los Angeles to Atlanta, without any clear idea what they are doing, what they might run into, what they might discover. 

NO Galleys went out or went out again, this week.

 Work began or continued on the following:

SINS OF THE FATHERS: A Dora the D.R.E. Mystery, Vol 1. by A. A. Mann

    As a Director of Religious Education at Our Lady of Grace

Catholic Church in the border town of San Pequeno, Texas,  

Dora meets many interesting and unusual people.  This time 

she meets Death.

Love does not end with death or at the gravesite. It lingers in this world, as powerful after death as before. Ashley Dunlap and David Paine discover this first hand, as a benevolent spirit guides their lives toward its desires. Will the two follow this spirit’s pathway or rebel against its power to follow their own free will?

This spirit of a murdered family member hovers over the two youths, providing timely nudges and direct pushes toward chance meetings and shared experiences. Her influence twists and turns their earthbound lives into a series of meetings and departures until the helix of their family history finally completes its cycle.

BLEEDING HEARTS: Killian Kendall Mystery Series, Vol. 1

   Winner of the Stonewall Society's 2002 Pride in the Arts Literary Award in the Whodunit Category! 

MINISTER'S ESCAPADES, Vol. 2 by Celine Rose Mariotti

  
   Rev. Castle is back in another cozy mystery.  

REAP THE WHIRLWIND: Killian Kendall Mystery Series, Vol. 2,  by Josh Aterovis. 
   Suicide, or murder? That's the question in the second Killian Kendall mystery. Will Smith suspects murder when an old childhood pal drowns, and asks his friend Killian for help in solving the mystery.

TRUTH OF YESTERDAY,  by Josh Aterovis

ALL LOST THINGS, by Josh Aterovis

CHANGE  OF WORLDS, by Josh Aterovis

Jack's News!

  by your bookstore cat, 
and gossip columnist!

We are all hoping you enjoyed Thanksgiving as much as we did. Personally, I didn't try the turkey again this year...

Oh, they tried to give me some, but Nuh UH! If it isn't crunchy and come out of a box, I KNOW better than to eat it! Oh, Kathy picked a good one, and it looked great. AND it Smelled Really Good! But my first  human Mama, Terry L. White, taught me how to eat real food...and I'm sticking to what She Said!

Please don't forget Our

KIDS at the Riverside Charter School still Need BOOKS!

Here's the address again, if any of you are interested in helping out with new or gently used K to 8th Grade books. These kids really do love to read!

San Diego Riverside Charter School

c/o Melissa Yepa

504 Mission Road

Jemez Pueblo, NM 87024

Please don't forget to let me know 

what you are all up to, so I'll have Gossip for my column next week! 

Just send arline@mail.com a message with 

 "News for Jack" 

in the subject line, and

I'll make sure it shows up right here. 

  Thanks!

Happy Thanksgiving!

To everyone, 
    From your friends here at Write Words, Inc. and Ebooksonthe.net  From Arline and Roger, from Jack and his little sister, Spunky, and from out whole family.

We are blessed to know you all. 

This year we will celebrate again by sending our thanks to all the talented authors we represent.

Thanks, Too. from the kids at Jemez Pueblo

for the books we sent last month.

The Government built them a great new Library, assuming they could use the books from their old library, but they never had a library before. They need new or gently used books. If you have anything suitable or know any authors of suitable material who might want to donate, please share this message with them

San Diego Riverside 

Charter School

c/o Melissa Yepa

504 Mission Road

Jemez Pueblo, NM 87024

Catching UP!

Books that went to press, or back to press this week:

The Kid Who Wasn't There, by C. M. Albrecht

   Jonas gets in pretty deep with a powerful talk show hostess, a mobster and art dealers and a very big Navajo, not to mention a lot of women who try to make him forget he's a happily married man with two children at home, and his troubles extend to home too. Life can be tough!

TOBY MARTIN: PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, Toby Martin Series, Vol 6.  by Barbara Grengs. 

   Toby Martin is back  with the last of the series, and this time she is investigating the disappearance of her "Pops" who went to the store when she was small, and never came back. 

Galleys that went out or went out again this week:

WENDELL & TYLER: WE'RE OFF! by James Kincaid

    Even their guidebooks – Worst Places to Eat, Wackiest Roadside Attractions, and Don’t Go Here! – offer no guidance. These two 16-year-olds are off on a summer-long road trip, from Los Angeles to Atlanta, without any clear idea what they are doing, what they might run into, what they might discover. 

 Work began or continued on the following:

BLEEDING HEARTS: Killian Kendall Mystery Series, Vol. 1

   Winner of the Stonewall Society's 2002 Pride in the Arts Literary Award in the Whodunit Category! 

MINISTER'S ESCAPADES, Vol. 2 by Celine Rose Mariotti

  
   Rev. Castle is back in another cozy mystery.  

REAP THE WHIRLWIND: Killian Kendall Mystery Series, Vol. 2,  by Josh Aterovis. 
   Suicide, or murder? That's the question in the second Killian Kendall mystery. Will Smith suspects murder when an old childhood pal drowns, and asks his friend Killian for help in solving the mystery.

TRUTH OF YESTERDAY,  by Josh Aterovis

ALL LOST THINGS, by Josh Aterovis

CHANGE  OF WORLDS, by Josh Aterovis

Jack's News!

  by your bookstore cat, 
and gossip columnist!

Happy Thanksgiving EVERYONE!

Arline wants me to say how grateful we are for all of you. And she's right! Without you, there wouldn't be a bookstore for me to be the Bookstore Cat of.

We are all wishing you the best of things to give thanks for and, as for me, I'm looking forward to some of that Big Bird I saw Roger put in the refrigerator!

Please don't forget Our

KIDS still Need BOOKS!

I had some great responses from our authors. Thanks again to Barbara Grengs who is sending her entire Toby collection. (Barbara, Arline is working on Toby 6. I swear.) 

Here's the address again, if any of you are interested in helping out with new or gently used K to 8th Grade books. These kids really do love to read!

San Diego Riverside Charter School

c/o Melissa Yepa

504 Mission Road

Jemez Pueblo, NM 87024

Please don't forget to let me know 

what you are all up to, so I'll have Gossip for my column next week! 

Just send arline@mail.com a message with 

 "News for Jack" 

in the subject line, and

I'll make sure it shows up right here. 

  Thanks!

Tomorrow!

Sorry, we're having

a bad day!

Catching UP! 

Will be posted Tomorrow!

Free Book for November and a grammar tip

FREE for November at ebooksonthe.net

Just go to our Internet Store and 

order as usual.

You will not be charged!

by Jane Austen

Had this book been written today, the title might have been Sense and Sensuality, but Regency authors were much more circumspect.

The title refers to the two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor.

When the Dashwoods _ are sent, almost impoverished, to a small cottage in Devonshire after the death of their father and the machinations of their brother's wife, they accept their new circumstances with as much cheer as they can muster even though their brother and his wife have taken over the family estate and fortune. Their characters, albeit wildly different in their approaches to life, are impeccably honest and intelligent _ and their suitors take notice.

In an interestingly twist, the end of this novel brings into question which sister represents which part of the title.

Question from the E-mail: What is a dangling participle?

Answer: A dangling participle happens when someone gets the parts of a sentence in the wrong order.  I can dangle a participle with the best of them and once had a woman in a barn with a broken hip.  Must've been the roof.

Here are some examples:

Rushing to the catch the bus, Bob's wallet fell out of his pocket.  Well the Wallet wasn't rushing...

Flying south for the winter, I saw a huge flock of swallows... actually, I wasn't flying South, the birds were.

Falling through thin Ice, the jogger dived into the lake to save the dog.  The jogger didn't fall through the ice, he dove in.  The dog fell.

The rest are self-explanatory:

The burglar was about 30 years old, white, 5' 10", with wavy hair weighing about 150 pounds.

The family lawyer will read the will tomorrow at the residence of Mr. Hannon, who died June 19 to accommodate his relatives.

Mrs. Shirley Baxter, who went deer hunting with her husband, is very proud that she was able to shoot a fine buck as well as her husband.

Organ donations from the living reached a record high last year, outnumbering donors who are dead for the first time.

The dog was hungry and made the mistake of nipping a 2-year-old that was trying to force feed it in his ear.

~ We spent most of our time sitting on the back porch watching the cows playing Scrabble and reading.

~ Hunting can also be dangerous, as in the case of pygmies hunting elephants armed only with spears.

Thanks from the Kids at Jermez Pueblo

Roger is playing, but I'm not singing yet.

I wanted to tell you,

we got the nicest message from 

Write Words Author Jim Kincaid this morning.  

He and his lovely wife, Nita, are shelving 

the books we sent to the Kids at Jemez Pueblo.

The government built them a great new library (after assuming they'd have books from their Old Library), but they have No Books, so Arline sent two boxes mostly books at 5th grade level as we do very few books for little kids here. They were publisher's copies, of course. So they hadn't been much used, just looked over and shelved. She sent mostly adventure stories and some science fiction.

Here's a picture of Jim :

Jim and his wife, Nita, are visiting at the school. Here's what Jim wrote:

Nita and I were shelving your wonderful collection of books today when some

kids came in and wanted to know where they came from...

"An author and a publisher."

"What's a publisher?"

"She prints books, makes books."

"You mean she writes books AND makes books?"

"Yep."

"Nah."

"Yep."

"Wow... And she sent all these books to us?"

Jim told us earlier how much the kids love to read, so we're real glad they will enjoy them.

As your bookstore cat, let me say how happy all of us were to hear they finally got there. It took us awhile to get them all together and then Roger had to take them to the PO, because neither Arline, nor I, do any heavy lifting. Roger really is good to us....

We do urge you, if you have any new, or gently used, books that kids K thru 8th grade might enjoy, please consider sending them along to the school.  Here's the address:

San Diego Riverside 

Charter School


c/o Melissa Yepa

504 Mission Road

Jemez Pueblo, NM 87024




I wanted her to send my copy of Puss N Boots, but she said it was "too ratty."  I do have to admit to a few claw marks and some bites on the cover...have to say it's much-loved.

A Thanksgiving Read and a Breakfast recipe

Best-selling author Leslie Anne Galloway leads the perfect life—until it inexplicably begins to fall apart. Her husband dies. Her pregnancy fails. Her career tanks. Unfortunate coincidence? Or is some unknown enemy working to engineer her downfall? All doubt disappears when an arsonist sets fire to her house and she narrowly escapes two brutal assaults. Since the police are unable to protect her, she must use her own intellect and determination to unmask and thwart an opponent who will not stop until she is brought to the very brink of destruction—and beyond.

Make-Ahead Thanksgiving Breakfast

Ingredients

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• 2 1/2 cups seasoned croutons
• 1 pound spicy pork sausage
• 4 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups milk
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 1 (10 ounce) package frozen chopped spinach - thawed, drained and squeezed dry

• 1 (4.5 ounce) can mushrooms, drained and chopped
• 1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
• 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese
• 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
• 2 sprigs fresh parsley, for garnish

Directions

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• Prep
  25 m
• Cook
  55 m
• Ready In
  1 h 20 m

1. Spread croutons on bottom of greased 9x13 inch baking dish. Crumble sausage into medium skillet. Cook over medium heat until browned, stirring occasionally. Drain off any drippings. Spread sausage over croutons.
2. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs and milk until well blended. Stir in soup, spinach, mushrooms, cheeses and mustard. Pour egg mixture over sausage and croutons. Refrigerate overnight.
3. The next morning, preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
4. Bake in preheated oven for 50 to 55 minutes or until set and lightly browned on top. Garnish with parsley sprigs and serve hot.