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L is for Love Stories: Three of Them to Tantalize Your Senses

Apr 13th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

These three love stories grew out of true stories. All of them are close to my heart. Even though men don’t always talk about it, a lot of them really do love a good romantic story — especially if they can relate to the characters involved who are far…

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K is for Knitting: Shawls, Scarves, Shrugs and More

Apr 12th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

My brother Wayne is the one who actually got me started knitting. He learned from the nuns at Queen of the World and taught me. Later on one of nuns showed me how to purl (Wayne hadn’t gotten that far yet) and then how to bind off — which was a good…

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J is for Julie Morris: She Thinks She’s Special, She Must Be Killed

Apr 11th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Julie Morris is beautiful. Julie Morris is rich. Julie Morris always gets what she wants — until she wants the wrong man. Then Julie Morris must be killed. Killing Julie Morris is the second story about revenge in my 2 story collection Home-made Pie …

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I is for Iris: Baptist Denies He Cares but Clair Isn’t Buying It

Apr 10th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Iris Carlisle has it all — beauty, wealth, style, position. She’s head of the arts council and in a position to help those artists she finds interesting to succeed. One of the artists she has chosen to promote is Baptiste. She loves his music and she…

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H is for Home-made: Pies, Sausages, Plots, Revenge

Apr 9th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Long ago I heard Stephen King say that the things with the most potential to frighten were the homey, everyday things. He said finding a way to turn something people take for granted into horror had the greatest power to terrorize. I thought about thi…

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An Unexpected Easter Gift – 5 Stars for The Old Mermaid’s Tale

Apr 8th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

I’m a little bit astonished by this review that appeared on Amazon today. I know who Ruth Madison is, she writes romance novels and is particularly interested in stories that feature characters with disabilities. Of course Baptiste, one of the main cha…

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G is for Ghosts: …in a Beach Town … in Winter

Apr 7th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Several years ago it was a cold November afternoon and I was driving back to Gloucester from Portsmouth, New Hampshire when I stopped in Salisbury Beach to get some coffee. It was a cold, blustery day and, in those days, Salisbury Beach was a bleak, d…

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F is for Flynnie: He Has Big Shoulders, Too Bad Babe Just Cries on Them

Apr 6th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Flynnie may not be much to look at but he’s a sweet guy, a good poet, a devoted friend, and fries a mean clam. His clam shack sits on a bluff overlooking the harbor where all the artists gather to paint by day and congregate in his place for clams and…

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F is for Flynnie: He Has Big Shoulders, Too Bad Babe Just Cries on Them

Apr 6th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Flynnie may not be much to look at but he’s a sweet guy, a good poet, a devoted friend, and fries a mean clam. His clam shack sits on a bluff overlooking the harbor where all the artists gather to paint by day and congregate in his place for clams and…

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E is for Each Angel Burns: Sex is Sacred, the Sacred is Sexy

Apr 5th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

Possibly the most controversial thing I have ever written, Each Angel Burns is a full length novel about three very extraordinary people. It is also a novel that has generated a lot of controversy because it deals with two intense passions: sex and spi…

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D is for Depraved Heart: Dastardly Deeds & Demented Divas

Apr 4th, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

A couple years ago I came across a news story about a man who was convicted of a “depraved heart murder.” Oooo, I thought, what on earth is that? It turns out that term “depraved heart” is also known as “depraved indifference” and refers to a death tha…

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C is for Crazy – My Favorite Old Lady

Apr 3rd, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

I’m not  fan of zombies, vampires or werewolves. I love horror stories but for me the greatest horrors are the ones that lurk inside the human mind under a veil of respectability. I remember when I was young and I read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lotte…

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C is for Crazy: My Favorite Old Lady

Apr 3rd, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

I’m not  fan of zombies, vampires or werewolves. I love horror stories but for me the greatest horrors are the ones that lurk inside the human mind under a veil of respectability. I remember when I was young and I read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lotte…

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B is for Belsnickel: A Childhood Tradition Brought to Life

Apr 2nd, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

When I was little December 6th was a big deal. That was the night that Belsnickel came to visit and we all waited for him with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Belsnickel always brought gifts and treats but we had heard rumors that if we were n…

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A is for Arthur, the Boy who Was Born in Dreams

Apr 1st, 2012 by Kathleen Valentine posted in Parlez Moi Blog

In January 2011 I began having dreams in that twilight time just before you fall deeply asleep. The dreams were much like any dream but I was half-awake, too. I knew I was dreaming. They were strange dreams, very vivid and sensuous with lots of detail….

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