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In other news, are you snowed in? Has the weather kept you home, like it has us? Have you been spending your time reading but now your eyes are starting to hurt? Have you considered switching to an audiobook? It just so happens I have the perfect one! Haunting Danielle’s most recent release, The Ghost and the Twins, came out in audiobook format just this week! That was a clever segue, wasn’t it?
(Above photo of our back yard this morning. The snow is starting to melt.)
First things first—The Ghost and the Twins (Book 33 in the Haunting Danielle series) eBook went live today! It is also available in large print and regular print format. Click here for purchase options. Its audiobook will be released on Jan 16, 2024, by Tantor Media.
Tomorrow, on Halloween 2023, The Ghost and the Wedding Crasher audiobook (released by Tantor Media) goes live!
The last six months have been rather hectic. It began with moving Mom into a memory care facility, me having knee replacement surgery, adjusting to Mom’s move, physical therapy for my new knee, and writing and releasing The Ghost and the Twins.
Today the 30th book in my Haunting Danielle series, The Ghost and the Medium, went live. It’s currently available in eBook, paperback, and coming out in audiobook format. I don’t know the date of the audiobook release yet.
I often wonder what other authors do when they have a new book come out. Do they throw a gala party? Open bottles of champagne? Go out to dinner? What?
While wondering what they do on such an auspicious day—I’ll share what I did today.
Let’s see…I started the day by helping my mother take a bath, gave her coffee and breakfast. I cleaned the house (with hubby’s help), sorted laundry, washed clothes, baked four loaves of bread, changed the sheets (with hubby’s help)… gave Mom lunch…
Yep, exciting day! Yet, one nice thing about a small house, it’s just 2 pm and most of it is clean. The only room we didn’t touch was Mom’s, and I plan to do that tomorrow morning.
If I was still living in Lake Havasu City, tonight I would be giving a speech at the high school graduation, where I will be receiving one of this year’s distinguished alumni awards, which I mentioned in yesterday’s post.
But I’m in Oregon now, and it was not possible to travel to Havasu with my other commitments. So, who will be reading my speech?
I understand it will be Pat Rooney. Pat was my Civics teacher during my senior year of high school. Back then he was an enthusiastic young former Marine, starting his teaching and coaching career at my high school and would later become its principal. I ran into Pat again years later, after I moved back to Havasu with my husband and kids. Don and I were real estate agents with McCulloch Realty when Pat retired from the school district and started a new career in real estate, also with McCulloch Realty.
So tonight, Pat will be reading my speech in Arizona, while I’ll be quietly celebrating the release of The Ghost and the Medium in Oregon. There won’t be any champagne, but Don will be grilling burgers, and I suppose I could have a martini. Hmm… I think there are some olives in the fridge…
Nahh, I’ll probably skip the martini.
(Photo: Yep, that’s me in my stylish shoes and pajama pants.)
