Hope you are having a good day!

In these warm (hot) days, it is hard to think of the coming cold weather! But they are coming a lot faster than you think. However, the good thing about that is that we can all look forward to the fun of Halloween and the festive holidays.

I really got involved in making costumes for my kids. I constructed many costumes over the years. The hardest was the T-Rex with a stuffed tail! It turned out great; the only problem was moving around with the rather large tail. Another was the Adam and Eve costume for my daughter and her then-current boyfriend. It was easy, just tons of fig leaves sewn strategically on bikinis. It was the talk of the party they attended.

There were many dance costumes for recitals! The one that I tried to refuse was a KKK costume. But knowing the person it was for, they would not have given up on it, so I said, “Okay, but it is a bad idea! You do know what this stands for, don’t you?” We had a lengthy discussion about that era and the potential repercussions of wearing the costume, to no avail. He wore it for about 20 minutes before it was stuffed in a backpack and never worn again. Sometimes you have to let people make up their minds about what is acceptable in polite society!

I am not a costume type of person. So if you see me in a costume, I was forced into it, or it was a big concession.

I do have shirts with some of the covers of my books. I will wear it next weekend at my table at Mohave Markets, located at 2600 Fairgrounds Blvd, in Kingman, AZ, on Sunday from 9:00 to 3:00. This is a big step for me, as I will be there alone, since my husband has to work. He will go with me on Saturday to help unload the car and set up. The owner of the Market said his sons will help me load the car on Sunday, so I am good. I will have hand-sewn grocery bags, totes, Jean purses, etc.

I will have some of my books, and will sign them if purchased at the market, or if they are from the Smashwords sale. The sale is available online at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/BrendaColbath. Alternatively, you can visit my website at http://www.brendacolbathbooks.com and click on any of the book covers, which will direct you to the sale at Smashwords.

It should be fun. Hope to see you there.

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Biography 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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