Jolene's Writings Around the Web

Jolenes Books and Writers Talk - Episode 11 - Author Mallory OConnor - award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction books we talk about University of Florida Press and publishing with them, hybrid publishers, her latest cookbook/memoir/Work of Art book that encompasses 60 years of her and her artists husband John's life and love of food and wine. Lots of great information. Visit Mallory's website: https://oconnorartllc.com/

Seriously, what makes you happy right now in your life? We all have different things that make us happy at different stages of our life. Normally, or I should say for most people that would be something much different in your childhood that your teens, your twenties, and your thirties as well as now in my sixties. Some much has changed over my lifetime and so many things have sadly stayed the same. For today, making videos, writing my fiction stories and helping other authors along with their own writing and publishing journey has been making me happy.

Books on our Online Store - Patricia Cornwells Hornets Nest In this first title of a new mystery series, Cornwell introduces us to a dynamic trio of crime solvers in Charlotte, North Carolina: Andy Brazil, an eager young reporter; Judy Hammer, the city's police chief; and Virginia West, Hammer's deputy and a genuine head turner. They're after a serial killer who pulls male out-of-towners from their rental cars and then mutilates, spray paints, and shoots them, in that order. What the trio uncovers jolts them like the sting of the hornet - Charlotte's symbol.

  Jolenes Book and Writers Talk - Episode 10 - Author Marie Q Rogers  - award winning North Florida author of young adult sci-fi and regular fiction. Ms. Rogers is the past and current chairperson of the Sunshine State Book Festival. The has 4 published books and working on her 5th one now. She does have two stories on Kindle Vella which we will be talking more about, the SSBF 2024 as well as the Writers Alliance of Gainesville.

I am in the process of making some changes to my Workamping in Florida website by finally adding my workamping reviews for all the Florida public land areas we worked for over the 5 years. Also, I hope to enlist some other workampers to send in their reviews and I would like to start going back to these places to interview the Volunteer Coordinators, take some pictures and videos and interview some willing workampers. If I could get grant to help pay for my expenses, pay Katie a salary and purchase the equipment and RV needed to hit the road again I would go in a heartbeat. The trick would be to finally get everything out of our storage unit, automate the sale of the used books to have some kind of income going and find willing partners to fund the project. It could be a two-or-three for one journey. One would be volunteer workamping experiences, another might be reporting on the accessibility challenges at these public land areas and how we can overcome them and the third would be to

. Here is another podcast with a client and a friend. Dr. JoAnn Lordahl has a very laid-back view on life, would rather be holistic in her approach to health, has survived and triumphed over a battle with cancer and a stroke. She is over 90 years young and we wish another 10 years to continue with her research and publishing the books she wishes to publish.    

Carnival Gypsy Reading from A Chapter - the audio versions of the book by Dorothy Gilman Butters. Creating these little vignettes from your books can be quite entertaining for your potential readers. I am just not sure I like the A.I. version of the audiobook narrator. Since Google offers this service for free I guess we cannot complain one way or another.

Jolene's Books and Writers Talk - Episode 8 - Author Jimmy Deas - In this episode we are visiting with North Florida Christian Fiction writer, Jimmy Deas. He has spent most of his life collecting and telling stories through his ministry. We talked about his writing process, the future of AI for authors, and some of the expenses involved as an author.  You can follow him on his Facebook Author Page where he posts weekly stories. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075985915448 Email him direct with any questions about his books or upcoming events drjdeas@icloud.com He even has a weekly newspaper column in the Lake City Reporter

Review for First Book Charleston Conundrum by Stacy Wilder My rating: 4 of 5 stars The first book in the Liz Adams Mystery series is called Charleston Conundrum. It is a little bit different than most of the cozy mysteries I have read in the past. But it is definitely a Christian Cozy Mystery set in the SOUTH (Bless Your Heart). I just love books about our southern states that do not have a lot of sugary-sweet southern talk. This story appealed to me because it is about a little bit older woman who after she finished off a nasty divorce in Atlanta, quit her corporate job, she decided to pursue her dream and become a 'real' private investigator, moved to Charleston, a really lovely historical place, and, educated herself in the position, interned with a prominent PI in the area and then opened her own firm. There are hints in the first book that she solved murders before this story and got on the bad side of a burnt-out local police detective. She is flat-out broken-hearted whe