tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85317423971830802302024-02-19T03:28:45.630-08:00Janet and QuincyJanet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-9833861922510474082018-01-10T01:00:00.000-08:002018-01-10T01:00:55.432-08:00Switching Over <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’m going to officially stop blogging here and switch over
to my Kaye George blog, since I won’t be writing as Janet Cantrell any longer.
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Please drop in at <a href="http://travelswithkaye.blogspot.com/">http://travelswithkaye.blogspot.com/</a>
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-1278397465570539752017-04-13T05:57:00.000-07:002017-04-13T05:57:15.516-07:00New Series!!!<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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doing, even though I leaked a bit of it last month. I’m excited to have a fully
signed three-book contract with Kensington/Lyrical Press for a brand new
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">I put some details up yesterday on Travels With Kaye, since I’ll
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Of course! Another cuddly, adorable male cat, a Maine Coon. I’ll
be collecting info, anecdotes, and escapades for Hector. If any of you have one,
feel free to fill me in on details. I may find a place to use them, you never
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The setting is lovely Fredericksburg, TX, a cute tourist town in
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-70963203482622284752017-03-24T22:11:00.000-07:002017-03-24T22:11:09.264-07:00Cozy Author MIAI hope my followers will bear with me.<br />
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I realize I haven't posted for a VERY long time. The Fat Cat series is not continuing, as most of my fans know. But there are 2 "howevers". (If you will allow me to use "but" and "however" in the same sentence.)<br />
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However, I continue to blog on <a href="http://www.killercharacters.com/" target="_blank">Killer Characters</a> on the 4th of every month. You can catch some excellent posts there by lots of cozy mystery writers.<br />
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However--and this is a good one--a brand new cozy series will begin in 2018 from Kensington's Lyrical Press line. I can't announce all the details yet, but a cat will be involved, a Maine coon named Travis. I'm very excited about this new series! I'm writing it as Kaye George, which is how I have written all of my other published work. This will be the first cozy series for me as KG, though. I hope you'll stick around and check things out occasionally.<br />
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In the meantime, feel free to visit my <a href="http://travelswithkaye.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Travels with Kaye blog</a> and to sign up for my newsletter. You can do that by emailing me at either kayegeorge@gmail.com or janetcantrell01@gmail.com.<br />
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<br />Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-60776879149348619902016-11-23T06:23:00.000-08:002016-11-23T06:23:29.907-08:00Thanksgiving<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’m so grateful to have such an enthusiastic bunch of fans!
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-26115396280807304532016-09-07T18:42:00.000-07:002016-09-07T18:42:22.552-07:00Some News about Fat CatI need to make a public announcement to answer the question that several readers have been asking me. I've told a few people, and did post it in the comments section of <a href="http://www.killercharacters.com/2016/09/best-place-to-work-bar-none.html" target="_blank">my Killer Characters post</a> on the 4th.<br />
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You're welcome to bop over there and read the comments, of course, but I'll also tell you the news here. It's official that there will be no more Fat Cat books. As you might know, as a cozy reader, Berkley Prime Crime is mostly getting out of the cozy mystery business. They are keeping a few authors, but not many. A lot of cozy writers are continuing their series at other publishers. I'm so glad for them and happy to see this. In fact, they're getting snapped up, since this is such a popular genre.<br />
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The Fat Cat books have a lovely, loyal fan base, too. I get emails almost every week from happy readers who enjoy the books. (See the comments above for more of this, also.)<br />
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So, you may ask, why am I not continuing this series at another publisher? For a few cozy writers, the contract doesn't allow this. I wrote this series as a Work For Hire, WFH. The contract stipulates that the publisher owns the copyright on the books. They own the characters so that I can't write short stories featuring them without approval. They even own my author name for this series, Janet Cantrell. For those of us writing WFH, there will be no transferring to another publisher.<br />
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You might ask another question. Why did I sign a WFH contract? At the time, about three years ago, it was a good way to get my foot in the door at Berkley. I used a concept they came up with. When they approved the proposal I wrote, I knew they would publish it. Also, they know the market well and I was assured of an audience and probably success of the series. The natural progression, in years past, would be for me to get another cozy series with them, written as Kaye George. No one at that time foresaw how Berkley would forsake the cozy writers, of course.<br />
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My agent is sending another cozy series around to several publishers. If it gets taken, it will be announced in capital letters in my newsletter. You may even hear my shouts of joy from wherever you may be!<br />
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Meanwhile, the books continue to sell and Janet and Quincy will live on until people stop reading them. I hope that will be in a long, long time!<br />
<br />Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-38485801632516067722016-06-30T01:00:00.000-07:002016-06-30T01:00:39.941-07:00Heads Up!<div class="MsoNormal">
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giving away a large print edition of the second Fat Cat book in July. I only
have one to give away, but I’d love for YOU to win it! Look for this link on
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-8958878657358812392016-06-23T01:00:00.000-07:002016-06-23T01:00:28.162-07:00International Widows Day<div class="MsoNormal">
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widows. That would paint them as unfortunate beings. I’m sure that’s sometimes
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The only way I can think to celebrate this is for women
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including widows in that scope. We women in the US might also take a moment to
be grateful we live in a country where things are at least a little more equal
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-6017853580679703282016-06-09T01:00:00.000-07:002016-06-09T01:00:21.724-07:00National Rivers Month<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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June is National Rivers Month, a month set aside to
celebrate our nation’s waterways. I’d like to talk about the most important one
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I grew up in Moline, Illinois, and could see the river from
our back porch. We occasionally swam in the sloughs, the backwaters that occurred
along the river. It probably wasn’t a particularly safe thing to do. But much
safer than swimming in the river, proper. It was well known that tunnels and
caves were at the bottom of the river and currents could suck you into them.
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A neighboring river that fed into the Mississippi, the Rock
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Growing up so close to a major body of water, I’ve always
been fond of rivers and have an almost emotional attachment to the Muddy
Mississippi. That’s why, when I got the contract for the Fat Cat books and
learned they were to be set in Minneapolis, I was delighted that I could
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Here’s a scene from the first book after Chase has ridden
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the Mighty Mississippi always calmed her. She stopped, straddling her bike for
a few moments, watching the progress of the water that was near the beginning
of its two-thousand-mile journey. When she was a child, she’d floated paper
boats on its surface, then imagined their trip, picturing them making it all
the way to New Orleans. Now that she was an adult, she knew a piece of paper
would never make it that far. Still, she could imagine the voyage. She took a
deep breath of the clear, crisp-tasting air over the cool water and pedaled to
the shop, renewed and ready for another long day.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222;">When they
reached the middle, they stopped to watch the river. Chase always felt
something switch on inside her soul, something that glowed with a serene light,
when she stood and gazed at the peaceful Mississippi as it flowed beneath her.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-65853309194990210532016-06-02T01:00:00.000-07:002016-06-02T01:00:19.844-07:00A Simple Thank YouTo the hundreds of fans who signed up for one of the 20 giveaway books, thank you so much. You are ALL awesome! I will be sending out the books ASAP and I hope you enjoy FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE! Because YOU take the cake!<br />
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PS. Stay tuned for another giveaway pretty soon.Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-23219386331793609172016-05-26T01:00:00.000-07:002016-05-26T01:00:21.372-07:00Excerpt and giveaway reminderThe Goodreads giveaway is still going on, until the end of the month! If you're not signed up, why not try for one of the 20 paperbacks I'm giving away of FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE. Six days left!<br />
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Here's an excerpt, just a small nibble from the beginning, so you can see if you'd like this series.<br />
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“That’s a lot of mail,” Anna Larson said. She was taking a short afternoon
break, sitting on the squeaky stool at the work island in the kitchen of Bar
None, the dessert bar shop co-owned by her and Charity Oliver, who was called
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“Look!” Chase waved an envelope at Anna, her eyes bright and her cheeks
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“If you held it still I could see it.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Chase smiled at her business partner and surrogate grandmother. “I’ll do
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“You know that’s a federal offense,” Julie Larson said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Julie.” Anna put on her stern grandparent look, which looked incongruous
with her soft gray hair and her periwinkle eyes, much more used to smiling.
“You don’t always have to be a lawyer.” Anna wore her usual bright sweater with
a plain T-shirt and jeans. This sweater was a rough, burlap-like material in
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“But it <i>is</i>, Grandma.” Julie,
sitting next to Anna, nudged the older woman slightly and fished a marshmallow
out of her cocoa with a spoon. Her eyes were identical to Anna’s, but set into
a face that was forty years younger than Anna’s seventy two and ringed with
dark brown hair. She kept her hair short and practical for her new job with Bud
Ellison’s small real estate firm. Chase thought her good friend seemed much
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“Your honor,” Anna began.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Your high horse-ness, then. I give Charity permission to open my mail.
Wait.” She took the envelope Chase was still waving in front of her. “Who is it
from?” Anna looked at the return address. “It’s the Batter Battle!” She ripped
the envelope open and pulled several sheets of paper from it, quickly scanning
the cover letter. “I’ve been invited to participate in the Minny Batter Battle.”<o:p></o:p></div>
Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-44780001823924618302016-05-19T01:00:00.000-07:002016-05-19T01:00:01.816-07:00Goodreads Giveaway Coming Soon!Hop over to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/187547-fat-cat-takes-the-cake" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> on the 22nd to win a paperback of FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE. It will end on the 31st and I'll mail out <u>20</u> copies to lucky winners!<br />
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It was exhilarating and exhausting, as usual. This year I
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Here’s me at Malice Go Round, giving one minute of
information on each book. This is an event described as Speed Dating, But with
Authors. A pair of authors visits 20 tables of 8-10 people each, staying for 4
minutes and taking 1 minute to change tables. We tell the listeners about our
books and give them bookmarks and sometimes other things so they’ll remember
us. I paired up with Jim Jackson, James M. Jackson is his author name. His
newest book is ANT FARM, in his Seamus McCree series. My new ones are FAT CAT
TAKES THE CAKE (by Janet Cantrell) and REQUIEM IN RED (by Kaye George). This
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After Malice Go Round, I walked over to Booeymonger’s with
Judy Penz Sheluk, who was at Malice for the first time. This sandwich and salad
place is where the Guppies have gathered for lunch ever since the convention
moved to Bethesda from Crystal City in Virginia. I got to chat with several
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Later that afternoon, I met with my agent, Kim Lionetti.
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Early Saturday, 7:30, was the Sisters in Crime breakfast,
where all the Guppies wear boas or reasonable facsimiles. Jan Rubens, who came
with Jim Jackson, took this picture of ALL the Gups that attended. After I wore
a feather boa one year and threw it away the same day, I wear my chartreuse
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I admit I deflated a bit and stayed in the hotel for lunch,
then went to my panel, “Death for Dessert: Sweet Murder” in the afternoon. Our
admirable moderator was Nancy J. Parra and the panelists were Kathy Aarons,
Maggie Barbieri, me, and Jessie Crocket/Jessica Estevao. We all write cozy
mysteries with dessert recipes in the back. We discovered that Jessie is
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I raced to the wine and cupcake reception given by my
agency, BookEnds, guided by Terrie Moran, who had also guided me to the dinner
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I came down with a cold and bronchitis as soon as I got home, so I’ll blame
that instead. I’m making plans to hold a mystery conference/convention where
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-75764275014756779682016-04-21T01:00:00.000-07:002016-04-20T19:12:52.669-07:00What is WFH?<br />
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When BookEnds Literary Agency signed me on with agent Kim
Lionetti, I was writing as Kaye George. Since BookEnds handled a lot of cozies
and that’s what I wanted to write, and since I had never written one, Kim had
to make sure I could write them. Some people do call my other series cozies,
but they are actually traditional mysteries (except the Neanderthal series—that’s
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What’s the difference? A traditional mystery contains a
murder and can be set anywhere with any kind of sleuth. It can dwell on the
gory details and show an autopsy. It can contain seedy characters, some of them
with foul mouths and bad habits. A cozy, in contrast, is lighter and gentler. No
gory details, no explicit sex, no cursing (or if there is any, it’s minimal),
no harm ever done to children or animals. Especially animals. In fact, many
cozies feature cats, dogs, and other pets. There may be some romantic interest,
even some romantic tension, but the real stuff is behind closed doors, as we
say. Many cozies have come to be based around a hobby or a career like baking,
catering, sewing, libraries—respectable things like that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A quick summary of that, in case you don’t want to click
over, is that the publisher came up with the concept and maybe some of the
characters. They may have decided who will get killed or who the killer will
be, or that may be left to the hired author. Sometimes auditions are taken,
that is, submissions are turned in to them from agencies which have had a
writer take on the task and do a proposal. (A proposal is usually a fleshed out
synopsis of the plot, based on the original germ of the idea, plus the first
three chapters.) When an author is chosen by the publisher, a contract is
signed. This contract makes it clear that the publisher owns all the copyrights
to this series. They own the concept, the characters, and even the author name
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Why, you may ask, would a writer want to do this? There are
a few good reasons. Cozies are extremely popular among mystery readers, so they
sell well. (And the agencies and publishers know what their readers want.) My
first two both achieved national best-seller status, I’m pleased to say. Also, if
the publisher came up with the concept and accepted the proposal, that series
will definitely get published. Thirdly, it’s a good way to get a foot in the
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One little hitch in my case. Due to multiple mergers and
acquisitions, the publisher is looking at the bottom line and deciding to throw
in with mostly huge megasellers, discontinuing many of their popular cozies. A
lot of cozy writers can take their series to other publishers, and many are
doing that, but I can’t, because I don’t own any of this one. Bad timing on my
part. The market at this publisher fell apart right as I established my
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The Fat Cat series <i>may</i>
be continued, but only if sales of the third book, FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE, which
came out this month, are spectacular. I’m hoping, of course, but I’m also
thinking of what else I can do, and I’m writing a proposal for my agent to send
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-39576739697439406912016-04-14T01:00:00.000-07:002016-04-14T01:00:02.579-07:00Giveaway last week, and this week…<div class="MsoNormal">
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other writers, you know how important reviews are to us. They help casual
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This third novel in the Fat Cat series is my make-or-break
novel. If it doesn’t do well, the series won’t continue. I would LOVE to
continue writing this series, so would LOVE it if anyone who likes the books
would post reviews. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, your own Facebook
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PS. There's an interview and a giveaway going on until the 25th at <a href="http://www.lindathorne.com/uncategorized/kaye-george-aka-janet-cantrell-interview/" target="_blank">Linda Thorne's blog</a>.</div>
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-45517522534881354272016-04-02T07:57:00.003-07:002016-04-07T01:44:59.298-07:00Giveaway until Wednesday!I'm giving away 5 books to celebrate the release of FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE on Tuesday. One a day from now until the 6th. Leave a comment below or on Facebook and I'll pick one every night until midnight EST the 6th!<br />
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<br />Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com52tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-34212535791950046572016-03-31T01:00:00.000-07:002016-03-31T01:00:12.028-07:00RELEASE TIME X-POSTEDI haven't done much of this, but it's crazy time, so I'm repeating my Kaye George blog here, since it applies to both of us. (Both of me?) You'll see why below. Here's what posted yesterday in Travels with Kaye. If you've read that already, you can skip this and save yourself some time!<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/042526744X/">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/042526744X/</a>)<br />
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I’ve been neglecting my blog. (But the word search was fun and I might do that
again.) I’m promoting two new releases, one next week, another the week after.
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From the 11th through the 25th, there will be a giveaway at
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Elaine Douts interviewed me for a Writers Who Kill post for
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<br />Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-80162459221006659882016-03-15T14:23:00.000-07:002016-03-15T14:23:29.440-07:00Something differentI've seen others doing these lately, so I'm trying one. A word search! To whet your appetite for FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE. I'd love to know how you like it.<br />
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<br />Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-87091490894976355822016-03-10T01:00:00.000-08:002016-03-10T01:00:11.151-08:00Meet Eddie HeathI'd like to introduce you to a character who will appear in the next Fat Cat book, FAT CAT TAKES THE CAKE, coming April 5th. I wonder what you'll think of him! Click the link below for a bit from Eddie.<br />
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Janet Cantrellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10050810860815029527noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8531742397183080230.post-85600311528203525922015-12-17T01:00:00.000-08:002015-12-17T01:00:13.803-08:00Season’s Readings!<div class="MsoNormal">
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