Jolene's Writings Around the Web

Physically participating in Books Events is still a challenge for most of us since we have been so isolated over the last couple of years. I would much rather Zoom with a small group than face hundreds or potentially thousands of people streaming by your table, handling your merchandise and asking, sometimes, very silly questions. Most of the times these events will not even pay for themselves. However, they are part of the Small Business person's live and one procedure that is common to get more people to purchase your wares.  As book writers we must also submit ourselves for viewing, speak to our potential readers and pray that one or more of them will actually purchase a book or two while you are there. There is also the very slim chance that they will remember you and your books when they go online to purchase them from there. I do not know if I will be up to this event in January or not. But I have committed myself to be their social media person and I have paid my table fees.

As I posted earlier in the year my mom passed away 11/21/2021. Terrible date which should have been lucky. She went quietly. Entirely too quietly if you ask me. It has taken me a year to finally be able to vent all the frustration that I have felt over the medical communities lack of just doing their job. I worked in the medical field for over 20 years before I retired the first time. Yes, it was all in the medical office area but you pick up quite a bit of knowledge reading medical records for billing, talking to doctors, nurses and med-techs. They all knew from her previous hospitalization when she broke her hip that she had a mini-stroke sometime in the last 5 years.  When she could not talk anymore or move her body on her own that should have been a major clue that she needed to be treated for the stroke protocol to minimize the damage. But I could not get anyone to listen to me or to even be concerned. Just because you have reached your seventies does not necessarily mean that you

Jolene's Book Review of The Detectives Assistant by Kate Hannigan. I am trying to read more historical mystery fiction and I came across this YA book about the first women detective (real life person) who worked for the Pinkerton Agency. Allan Pinkerton (the original and founder of the detective agency) hired Miss Kate Warne who not only solved just as many cases as the men but is credited with saving Abraham Lincoln's life during his first assassination attempt. Had she lived she may have even been able to save him from Booth. It was a very nice read and kept me interesting all the way to the end. This is going to help me with my current WIP (Work in Progress) called Dastardly Deeds at the Dearborn Theatre  which is the first story in the Misadventures of Janie and Diane series. I wrote the second or perhaps the third book in the series first and have published it on Kindle Vella called Bloody Murder at the Blanche Hotel .  Boy that is going to be a nightmare to straighten out