Awaiting the Snow

Awaiting the Snow

My iPad weather predictor says, “Snow in 90 minutes.” Is it correct? The high today is forecast to be twenty-eight degrees, which is what it is right now. So, I imagine it’ll get colder as the day progresses. A perfect day for switching on the fireplace or lighting the logs, making sure the coffee pot […]

Ramblin’ Rose

Ramblin’ Rose

Two More Days Until the Launch of Grave Heritage! I am pleased to announce this morning, that I am a guest on Janet K. Brown’s blog site. I hope you’ll drop in for a visit. Thanks, Janet, for the opportunity to guest on your blog.  Yesterday was a little of this and a bit of […]

Introducing Worth Forgiving

Introducing Worth Forgiving

I am pleased to introduce my guest blogger this morning. Janet K. Brown is a fellow Pen-L author of four books. Her latest, Worth Forgiving, makes it debut September 1. I read Worth Forgiving and found it to be immensely interesting. Riveting, I believe, best describes it because the book kept me turning pages to find […]

Weather Predictor Points to Grave Heritage

Weather Predictor Points to Grave Heritage

I’m really excited this morning. My friend and fellow Pen-L author Janet K. Brown has used her blog post for my cover reveal for the soon-to-be-released fourth Darcy and Flora cozy mystery, Grave Heritage.  Click on this link http://www.janetkbrown.com/2016/08/cover-reveal-for-blanche-manos-new-cozy.html and take a look. Janet has given it a beautiful treatment. You might want to stay a while at Janet’s […]

Exciting Interview!

Exciting Interview!

Some of my fondest memories are sitting at my parents’ kitchen table, drinking coffee and talking with them. Something about being in their presence, of a simple conversation, cheered me like nothing else. They were my re-fueling station. I wish I could remember each word that we said so I could re-play it in my mind, rather […]

Interview with Author Janet K. Brown

This morning, I am pleased to present an interview with fellow Pen-L Publishing author, Janet K. Brown. Blanche: Why did you decide to write? Janet: I don’t think I chose writing. It chose me. Ha! Recently, I told my story about what sparked my creativity at castlegatepress.com. I have written most of my life. Job & […]