Welcome to my newsletter! Today it’s all about the stuff that’s currently blooming on the property.
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We have a lot of fruit trees in one of the fenced off areas, the big box. As per usual, the quince is flowering like mad at this time of year. We haven’t actually had any fruit off the tree since we first planted it. We suspect that though supposedly quince self-pollinates, maybe ours needs another nearby quince tree. But the flowers are one of my favorite every year.
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Then we have the two apple trees. Apples don’t tend to self-pollinate. You can find huge charts that describe which trees pollinate each other. So we have a Fuji and a Honeycrisp tree.
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In addition, apple trees (like pear trees) tend to only bloom every other year, unless you prune them back hard every year to train them to bloom every year. We don’t bother with that.
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As apples are more hardy than cherries, we’re going to have a TON of apples at the end of the season. Which, yay!
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Scattered across the yard currently are the forget-me-nots. It’s hard to take a broad shot to see how colorful they are, so here’s a closeup.
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Then there’s the golden chain. I adore this tree. Last year, for some reason, we only had two, very small, chains of flowers. There are a lot more buds this year, so I’m hoping that it will flower nicely. Here’s what one of the buds look like:
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I planted the flowering crabapple in the area of the property that we call the upper meadow, because at that time I was living in TH1, and I could look out the windows on that side of the house and see it. I can just see a hint of pink when I look out the front of TH2. But here it is in all its glory.
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In other news, I finished the last novel of the Water Witch mysteries this week. YAY! I was pretty tired of that novel by the time I finished it. It’s the last book in the series, book six. It has an August release date. I already have a release party planned at Bundock books. I may or may not schedule myself a second appearance somewhere.
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The next novel? Well, I’ve never written a romance novel. And I’m not sure if the next novel will qualify as a traditional romance or not. But I’m going to give it a go.
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See, I love retelling fairy tales. I’ve done it many times in short fiction. I’ve never done it for an entire novel, though. So I’m going to give it a go. The end product may just be a cozy fantasy with romantic elements, instead of a fantasy romance. We’ll see.
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And I think that’s about it for news!
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Click reply and let me know how your spring is going, what you’re up to.
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Los Angeles. The city that never sleeps.
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These stories take inspiration from those hard-boiled detectives of yore, with broken noses and steely eyes. The white knight you could rely on because the rest of the world had soured like a rotten apple. Even if he (or she) didn’t follow the rules.
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Or maybe because they broke them in order to see justice done.
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Come see what the MCM Syndicate has to say about these types of “heroes” as we enter our seventh year of publication.
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Horray! It's May! And there's a new book on sale only on the KRP store.
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This month? Night Strike--a historic aviation thriller written by Blaze Ward--is on sale for just $0.99. It's in part to celebrate the release of the fifth book in the series, Sea Wolves.
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In South America, they discover a conspiracy to attack New York City.
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Do they save their enemy?
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