“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
Latest Posts
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The Loves of Ruby Dee
A wonderful antidote to glitz romance. Ruby Dee is so sweet, so loving, so wise, that you know she’ll get it right in the end, and you stay with her all the way to make sure she does. ~Detroit Free Press, on The Loves of Ruby Dee. From the Author’s Note in The Loves of Ruby…
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If Wishes Were Horses
“It was not so much her husband dying in another woman’s bed that had sent her into shock, but his dying at all. Roy had been only thirty-five years old, and while he had been in many a woman’s bed, he had never died on her before.” With comic invention and warm tenderness, Matlock brings…
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The Gardens in Springtime–Garden Bloggers Bloom Day!
Spring has come to South Alabama, and I plunge into a sort of gluttony, grasping far more than I can afford in time and energy to plant and transfer and tend, a lot of triage gardening, and the forced practice of balance. My method is to work outside until I cannot stand it anymore and…
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Indie Publishing PS
“I found success because I wrote for the love of writing.” ~Hugh Howey, author of Wool. Check out Hugh Howey’s stellar article: Self-publishing is the future–and great for writers. When I read it, I suddenly heard the old gospel song: The gospel train is a comin` I hear it yes at hand I hear the…
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The Writer’s Quotation Book
I thought I’d share with you from time to time books that I love, and that you might, too. The idea came to me this morning, when, finding myself in something of a poor mood, I looked around for a book to lift my spirits. I don’t have to look far. I sit surrounded by…
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Happy Easter!
I was walking around the back of the azalea bushes, and was surprised to see these. Ruby amaryllis blooms, stretching with determination toward the sunlight. Azalea branches were poking across them, as if in equal determination to hold them back. I cut away the branches. This morning I ran out to see if the amaryllis…
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