“All right, all right, all right! No more Mr. Nice Guy!” If any of you have young kids or grandkids you may know where you can find that quote. It’s Grover (sweet, lovable Grover from Sesame Street) in one of my grandkids’ favorite read aloud books, There’s a Monster at the End of this Book. Grover is trying to block …
When I’m doing one of these mystery photo contests, I start looking at every picture I take, wondering if I can trick you all with a close up bit of one of the photos. Some of them are too fuzzy when I enlarge a section of the photo. Some of them are too obvious. I tried hard to use something …
Are you ready to guess on mystery picture number 2? Oh, it could be you want to know about mystery picture 1. You all made some interesting guesses. Some made me get a yearning for some salty potato chips, but no, the photo wasn’t potato chips. The spinach leaves guess didn’t make me hungry. Alas, that tells you a lot …
Are you ready for a new mystery picture game? With books for prizes. Some of you have played the game with me in the past before I changed my blog over to my website. I’m hoping some of you are still checking out my blog posts, but I haven’t gotten as many comments, so I’m afraid some of my readers …
October 3, 1966 Jocie Brook, preacher’s kid, reporting here from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Have you ever been at an all day church service? I mean literally all day? Morning till the sun goes down? If not, you must not be a preacher’s kid. Preachers’ kids spend a lot of time at church. A lot of time. Preachers’ kids are expected to …
The contest to celebrate my new book, Murder at the Courthouse, is over and the winners have been picked. I give each of your entry e-mails a number and then pick the numbers of the winners by random.org. Some of these days I’ll learn how to do that raffle copter that other writers use, but right now I’m enjoying hearing …
I met this beautiful cat in a store this week. She came out of to check out everyone shopping in the little pet supply store. Doesn’t she have beautiful eyes? This is the last post before I draw for the winners of the Celebration Giveaway for my upcoming mystery, Murder at the Courthouse. Since cozy mysteries often feature a cat …
Cats do seem to get a lot of stories told about them. Perhaps that’s because they are such unique characters. I keep trying to think up my own cat story, but I don’t think I can top all of yours. However, I have written some cats into a few mystery stories and those cats are being featured on the covers …
Are you tired of cat stories yet? I hope not. Love hearing about your unusual and unique pets. I’m still not sure some of you don’t have a dog disguised as a cat. But then surely no self-respecting dog would do that! Not even for a Scooby Snack. Here’s a story about a beautiful, very fluffy cat and if her …
September 22, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you like football? High school football? Holly County High School has a football team. We’re not big time winners or anything, but Dad says the boys try hard. I don’t think that counts on the scoreboard. Whether we score or not, we keep cheering them on. Last week they …