When there was very little difference between the seasons, traffic congestion, and the price of renting a smidgen plot of land under a mobile home, we leaped into purchasing a stick-built, resale home in Kingman, a small town compared to Phoenix, but we are liking the small town living.
This life-style isn’t for everyone. Stores aren’t open all hours. And as my shocked kids said, ‘My God, there aren’t any street lights!’ That’s okay with me, we stay home most of the time. We only go out at night once in a while.
Much of my time is spent sewing for neighbors, reading, and writing. My writing slowed a little after the stroke at Christmas this year. However, I now have the use of my left hand for writing and typing, albeit a little slower than before, but it is still functional.
I am currently working on Book 8 of the Ruby & Nolan series, titled Volcano. It wasn’t completed in time to be included in my big sale on Smashwords, but it will be released later. All my books are priced at 50% off when you look for them at : https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/BrendaColbath
I publish my books with Draft2Digital and they are distributed to the following Book sites: Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Smashwords, Tolino OverDrive, bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, BorrowBox, Hoopla, Vivlio, Palace Marketplace, Odilo, Gardners, Amazon
Time to get busy and complete Volcano, sewing jobs, and playing with my Roses. They are tolerating the heat and wind quite well.
We’ll talk again, soon..
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Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die.
I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect?
Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing.
My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda.
Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated.
I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.”
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class.
After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome.
I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
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