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PEGGY FIELDING'S NEWSLETTER Vol. 9 Number 4...May 2008 UH HUH, ARCHIVES Go to the archives so you won't miss any geegaws. That is, www.peggy@peggyfielding.com YEAH, I'M BAD Skipped April, didn't I! Not because my brain isn't functioning, folks, because it (the brain) seems to be clicking right along. I've just finished a piece for the Romance Writers Ink, INKLING, our newsletter. My piece was about switching back and forth between introvert and extrovert and how necessary that back and forth change is for any writer....introvert for writing, extrovert for promoting. I hope Romance Writers of America like the idea well enough to reprint the thing in other chapter letters. ABOUT JACKIE I put my pal Jackie into the Inkling article. She told me yesterday that she was writing an article for Inkling also, but she refused to tell me her subject. That is smart of her, of course, because once you discuss an article or book that dissipates the burst of creativity that has seized you. We were discussing our little essays yesterday before the Oklahoma Mystery Writers meeting at Kendall Whittier Library. The speaker at OMW was our glamout HEN, Paula Alfred. Paula did a great job of talking about the inner workings of the Tulsa Public Defenders Office. Her audience was spellbound and we had loads of questions, which is always evidence that listeners are totally involved. NEW HEN ANTHOLOGY COMING UP I told Dan, our publisher of the HEN series, that Paula had bowed out of the projected new book, THE FOXY HENS GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT. He laughed. "Peggy," he said, "Every time you do a new HEN book you lose one of the HENS. Pretty soon you'll be just one old HEN scratching in the henyard by herself." Well, I hope Miz Jacqueline won't desert me but it's true that Sharon Ervin and Paula Alfred have gone south Our original group has grown quite small. Nancy Huff quit us even before we started the first book, so our first group has narrowed down to two sturdy HENS still scratching out stories. In the picture the little hand clutching Sharon's sleeve belonged to our Nancy. She was so involved with building churches and schools all around the world that she felt she would not be a good HEN candidate. Sharon, the one with dark hair, orange shirt, is so involved with her own novels that she has no time for more HEN anthologies. Paula, the tall, lovely blonde in the orange shirt and black jacket has decided to make her new career in public speaking so that leaves the tall red HEN and the short old HEN at the left of the picture to carry on. Look for BUMP IN THE NIGHT toward the end of September so you'll have something to read for Halloween. Ghosties! Yeah. Our Editor has promised to get the book out as soon as we get the manuscript in to him. A MARVELOUS THING HAPPENED I wish I had a picture of the marvelous gift I received recently. Everyone who has seen it, has gasped. Saturday last, Romney Nesbitt came and brought me a present, a breathtaking present, which now hangs over my fireplace. DAN PLEASE PUT ROMNEY NESBITT IIN SOMEWHERE HERE She had painted a watercolor portrait of me, put it into a frame and brought it to my house without a work of forewarning. Now, I never put my own picture out in my dining and living rooms, which I think of as my "public" rooms... but I broke that rule and insisted that Rev. Rom put the lovely painting up right in my living room, above the fireplace. There it will stay until I quit gasping at her talent and her generosity. Wish I could show it here! Dan, my web master, once drew a pencil drawing of me and I love that. We can show that here, can't we? ABOUT DUSTY RICHARDS Gloria, on the left is another red haired friend, but I'm not going to say much about her here because I want to get right into Dusty. This picture was taken at last year's OWFI Conference. I'll get around to Gloria later. She has made me laugh as well as she has made me almost cry at times, more laughter than tears I must admit. But on to Dusty. He is such a paradox walking around in cowboy boots, cowboy shirt, jeans and Stetson. He sent me his latest short story today. It is destined for an anthology somewhere, but what the story demonstrates to me is the fact that Dusty writes short stories which are laden with an almost feminine sensibility and sweetness within that same big package he also demonstrates as a big, bluff male He didn't know the difference between a quilt and a blanket. To that big, gruff, multi-published writer man, they were one and the same thing. Oh Dusty, you make me swoon with the loveliness and you make me laugh with your obtuse, masculine view of everyday items. You can get a book of his short stories from your bookstore, from Amazon.com, or from AWOCBooks.com, if you want to check out what I'm saying. Dusty writes and sells a lot, sometimes as many as eight or nine books a year. He also writes short stories for magazine and anthologies. SEX Yeah, Peggy, we knew you'd get around to this. Dusty's wife, Pat, likes me, I think. She doesn't seem to mind that I sometimes say, in a loud voice, that the only sex I get these days is from Dusty Richards. She knows I get the thrill from one of his "written for hire" books from Berkley, called "Today's Longest-Running Action Westerns!" JAKE LOGAN. I've read a ton of Jake Logans. I'm in love with the main character, Slocum. He is good looking, strange, kind, smart and sexy as all get out, as we say in Oklahoma. Recently, at eh OWFI Conference, Dusty gave me #351 in the series, titled SLOCUM AND THE TOMBOY. So It is Dusty's fault that I missed the famous author dinner on Friday night. I ordered up fish and chips and stayed in my room to read about Slocum's adventures. Thus, you see why I say my absence was all Dusty's fault. While I was reading it, I began to worry about Slocum. He may be at risk because he is "doing it" with every female who comes along...from soiled dove to somebody's wife, with plenty of other women in between. The guy is always in someone's bed or bedroll. I'm worried about him. Does he never concern himself with his health? Remember there were no antibiotics in those days. He doesn’t need to quit the rutting around (impossible for Slocum, I'd say) but he might let a question arise in his mind. "Is this woman safe?" Anyway, Bob Avey is interviewing Dusty at OMW in July about his Western Mystery. Come and hear Dusty answering Bob's questions. We love visitors at OMW, just as we love hearing about the writing and researching of mysteries and true crime books. MY BOOK CHOICE TODAY THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE really surprised me. I have read a lot of Laura Joh Rowland books, which were all mysteries, set in medieval Japan. I'm wild for those books. I much prefer them to the book with Charlotte. Not my cup of tea. Norma Jane Boone gave me a copy of a romance which I loved, loved, loved. I will do something nice for Normal Jane for turning me on to THE LAND OF MANGO SUNDETS, by Dorothea Benton Frank. Even if you rarely read romance, read this one. This jaded old reader thought this the best book read in a long time. Get it. Read it. It was published by Avon.. THE CONTEST IN THE LAST NEWSLETTER Our winner was Liesse Sherwood - Fabre, from Texas. She had purchased CONFESSING FOR MONEY after the newsletter came out and I sent her my last tape of "Confessing for Money." Hope she enjoyed her gift. I’ll see all you good readers in June. Love Peggy |
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