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BVC Announces Beguiled Again by Patricia Burroughs

Beguiled Again by Patricia Burroughs When sexy, buttoned-down accountant Jeff gets sucked into Cecilia’s sticky, single-mom universe, his life turns inside out. Her checkbook’s a nightmare, her oldest...

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BVC Announces Ardent Forest by Nancy Jane Moore

Ardent Forest Nancy Jane Moore “All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about...

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An Oasis in West Texas

My father wanted his ashes spread near the little town of Christoval, Texas, where he spent a lot of his childhood. My sister and I went up there a couple of weeks ago to do this final task. I’d never...

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BVC Announces Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs

Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs When small town girl Kennie Sue Ledbetter wakes up in a Reno hotel between two guys in rumpled tuxedos, she thinks things can’t get any worse. When she steps on the...

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Author Interview: Nancy Jane Moore

Author Interview: Nancy Jane Moore Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Nancy Jane Moore pursued both the law and martial arts with equal vigor, applying their lessons to many areas of her life....

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Story Excerpt Sunday: From Razzmatazz by Patricia Burroughs

Razzmatazz A Romantic Comedy by Patricia Burroughs “WHAT THE HELL?” Alex shot upright and rubbed his unshaven face. He surveyed the messy bed and did a double take when he saw his friend beside him....

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A Sense of Place

Moving has made me think about the multiple places I consider home. Texas, of course. The whole state, not just Austin (where I went to college and where I live now), Houston (where I was born), or...

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Thinking About Ethnicity

When I’m asked what ethnic group I belong to, my immediate response is “I’m Irish,” quickly modified by “but I’m also Scottish and English and maybe Dutch.” That’s a pretty common response from white...

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Story Excerpt Sunday: From La Desperada by Patricia Burroughs

La Desperada by Patricia Burroughs She refused to ask how much longer they would be riding. Instead she chose her words carefully to find out the same information, she hoped, without seeming to...

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Writers vs Truthers: The Big WHY

I commented in an earlier post that I have observed similar thought patterns and behaviors in some inexperienced writers and conspiracy theorists (or truthers, as they are often called). In my first...

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Displacement

I heard part of a piece about Wendell Berry on NPR  the other day. It focused on the importance of knowing the place where you’re from. In the piece, Laura Dunn, who recently made a film about Berry...

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Texas Road Trip

My sweetheart Jim had a conference in Houston. It happens that I was born in that city and raised in a small town just outside it, so when he expressed an interest in seeing where I grew up, I had to...

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The Tricoastal Woman Thinks About History and Racism

Of all the election victories out there, here’s the one that moved me the most: 19 African American women ran as Democrats for judgeships, most for positions in Harris County, Texas (Houston). 17 of...

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What’s the Matter With Texas?

by Nancy Jane Moore Texans don’t have much use for ideas. Or at least, that’s what the eminent historian T.R. Fehrenbach says. In an essay in November’s Texas Monthly, he observes: [T]he people who...

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BVC Announces Ardent Forest by Nancy Jane Moore

Ardent Forest Nancy Jane Moore “All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about...

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An Oasis in West Texas

My father wanted his ashes spread near the little town of Christoval, Texas, where he spent a lot of his childhood. My sister and I went up there a couple of weeks ago to do this final task. I’d never...

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