I apologize, but there will be no Monday Motivation post for the next two Mondays as I continue with the Ten Days of Flowers, but I promise it will return. I have been talking about making a new book cover for Flowers and Stone for months. I perused hundreds of images, finding nothing that spoke […]
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In 1970, the Texas honkytonks were rough and rowdy places. What a contrast for Darlina, from a strict religion to spending countless hours in the bars. It was where you found the music, dancing, and often big drama. Today, I’ll share an excerpt that authentically shows this. As with all the incidents in the book,
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Besides a love story, at the heart of Flowers and Stone is music—creating it, performing it, loving it, and living it. Luke Stone was a songwriter. While he performed many cover tunes, his true passion lay in writing and performing his original songs. In the book, I describe what Darlina saw the day she moved
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I hope you’ve been enjoying the posts celebrating the 10th birthday of Flowers and Stone. There are so many aspects to the book, including Darlina’s background and growth. When she first met Luke, she was go-go dancing at a club that had live music but that she could legally get into because she was underage.
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One of the things I wanted to portray in this part of the story was the deeply rooted Texas music history. Imagine, if you will, dance halls often set in the middle of nowhere, and yet people would travel for miles around to attend a music show. Folks worked hard, and they played hard. They
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As I draw to a close on the Ten Days of Flowers, I want to share one of the most important turning points in this story. Texas justice in 1971 was still raw and easily manipulated. Perhaps it still is, but this is a glaring example. First, the shock Excerpt: Norma burst into Darlina’s bedroom
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Welcome to Day 10 and the final segment of the Ten Days of Flowers! To everyone who has followed along, thank you from the bottom of my heart. This entire series, from beginning to end, was a labor of love. At the heart of it is a love story, but it’s also much more. Each
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I can’t tell you how excited I am as this series starts to release one book after another! First, we had Mae Clair’s Price of Atonement, and now, we have Gwen Plano’s compelling contribution! Release day was actually yesterday, but I was wrapping up my Ten Days of Flowers posts. BLURB: In an innocent 1958
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