“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press



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  • Trust, and the Writing Follows

    …or how it turns out from last week. I’ve been considering this word implementation since last weekend’s post and realized it isn’t a question of implementing or not, but what will I implement in any given moment. Am I going to implement going back to bed or getting up and going to the page? Am…

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  • The Loves of Ruby Dee

    The Loves of Ruby Dee

    “Her books are wise and wonderful. I loved it!” ~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips Three men love her…but only one man can win her. Ruby Dee D’Angelo came blowing up the dusty ranch road and into the lives and hearts of the Starr men: the failing but intractable patriarch, Hardy Starr; the youngest son, Lonnie Starr,…

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  • Let Me Learn When to Say No

    “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things I have…

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  • The Implementation Factor

    This morning my grown son and I were cooking breakfast together. I asked, “Do you plan? I mean, do you have tips you could share about planning projects?” After all he has built his own business from the ground up. Surely he know something that he’s learned (and I know I didn’t teach him.) He…

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  • Sale – $1.99 e-Books! Enjoy a Christmas Romance Today!

    Once Upon a Christmas and Miracle On I-40 are on sale right now for $1.99 each! Once Upon a Christmas is a Kindle exclusive. “Curtiss Ann Matlock has delivered a beautiful and warm Christmas story just in time for our own Christmas Holidays.” ~ Carolyn Mers, author of The Alzheimer’s Roller Coaster Miracle On I-40…

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  • Christmas is My State of Mind.

    I’ve read of stores who are taking the stand to not put out Christmas decorations until after Thanksgiving. I applaud them for standing by what they feel is important. I used to make the same rule–none of the Christmas china or linens came out until the first week of December. But this year I’m throwing…

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Matlock writes about generous people striving to live and love well. She does it beautifully.
~ Contra Costa Times