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Last Lin-day. And here you go, her winners. Thanks again for letting me hijack your blog this week. It's been fun. :-) I put all the commenters' names into the lucky St. Augustine hat and had the DH draw two names: 1) Winner of the choice of my ebook backlist is Sam . 2) Winner of a signed copy of either What Mattered Most or Truth and Consequences is Tracy Macnish . Sam can check out http://www.samhainpublishing.com/authors/linda-winfree to take a look at my ebooks. If she'll email me her choice and format preference, I'll get it to her ASAP. I'll need Tracy to email me her snail mail addy and her book choice.

don't make this look like a ghost-blog. Better go flog the blog....gack. Fun Friday – Q & A You know what Shakespeare said about the best laid plans? (wasn't it mice and Burns? Are you going to make me go look it up, Winfree?) Well, they often go awry and mine have. Or rather, my lack of organization killed them. I’d planned to show you pics from our recent trip to St. Augustine, but I seemed to have, er, misplaced my memory card to my camera. So . . . how about a Q & A day? You leave questions for me in the comments area, I’ll pop in throughout the day and answer them (if Kate’s blog doesn’t decide to hate me – sometimes it won’t let me comment), and tonight I’ll choose two winners from this week’s visitors, for the choice of an ebook from my backlist and the choice of a signed copy of one of my print books. Sound good? Get to askin’ questions, then!

actually it's all about the world and people she's invented. Thursday Thirteen: Tidbits about Linda Winfree’s Hearts of the South series. 1. There wasn’t supposed to be a series. It’s all Tick’s fault. He insists on being in everything. 2. Speaking of Tick, his name started out as a joke between me and a former writing partner. We cowrote a really long, really bad novel. I’d send her emails with “tick tick tick” in the subject line when she was behind on writing. It evolved into a character name. 3. Throughout the books, there are references to real events in the DH’s law enforcement career. It’s usually buried in dialogue overheard by other characters 4. Some of the deputies’ names come from combinations of names from my DH’s former law enforcement colleagues. The real-life guys think it’s hilarious. 5. I wrote the books out of order. This tends to make my editor (and me) crazy as I try to make sure the timeline fits. 6. I didn’t name the series. My CP Carol did. ...

Yeah, you know there's no way I can add to the moon pie / RC list. Yum. Wacky Wednesday: The Weird and Wonderful Things You Could Hear And Eat in Southwest Georgia When I went away to college (all the way to the University of Georgia in Athens), people thought I talked funny. Turns out, it was the lexicon I brought with me from deep South Georgia. Hey, people talk funny here! And they eat some weird stuff here. I have not eaten everything on this list. My dad ran a meat market and it’s a wonder I eat anything. So what unusual phrases might you encounter if you visited Albany, Thomasville or Valdosta? 1) Fixin’ to: meaning, “I’m about to…” 2) “He’s his daddy’s eyeball.” Means the same as “apple of his eye.” 3) “Y’all come go home with us.” Courtesy invitation extended as you’re leaving a gathering. You don’t really expect them to come go with you…but you have to ask. 4) “What do you know good?” The old-fashioned sowega (that’s Southwest Georgi...

I'm still attempting "y'all" in a Brooklyn accent, Esri. "Y'wahwl" Thank you for that one. If we can nail that accent, maybe we should try for Aussie. "Y'aaale" Today Linda is not whining about the weather. I'll take up the slack on that: a whingggeparty because they shut down the schools again. Bleh. I keep trying to load Winfree's cover and blogger is thumbing its cybernose at me. You should just go look at the Sammy's link below, okay? AND COMMENT HERE, when you can, even though Blogger's not sure it wants you to. Don't let it win the fight and leave a comment. Beat Blogger; Win books. Southern Heat: Sizzling Snippets from Memories of Us by Linda Winfree Wow, it’s hot—100 degrees in the shade here. It’s heating up over at Samhain Publishing, too, with the release of Hearts of the South book five, Memories of Us . Here are a few hot snapshots from Linda Winfree’s latest release, due out today. 1) Celia...

Speaking of Southern heat (which Linda will be) it's about 93 degrees and I just got the call from the school phone tree: the kids are getting out of early. The four of us will cram ourselves into the small air conditioned spaces of our house and probably get on each other's last nerve licketty-split. Yay! Everywhere I've gone this morning (both places) people have moaned about how we're in New England and it's not supposed to BE like this in New England even though it does this every year. They expect snow days here, but not heat days. None of the old schools have air conditioning. Lucky it's just an early release and not a non-starter day. Because if they keep adding on days due to heat, those kids'll be in there through September. Okay. Now it's Linda's turn. And so turn your mind away from hot, sweaty northerners and think about hot, sweaty southern men. Mmm-Mmm Monday: Reasons to Love the Southern Hero If he’s been Raised Right, he’ll be lo...

The Eppie contest must be a fairly big deal. I've gotten about 20 emails** congratulating me for finalling . Most of the emails are coming from strangers which means they're looking me up. Wow. * * * Look, I'm having a Linda Winfree contest And I have to figure it what happens in it? I'm feeling remarkably lazy so...how about people have until Sunday to GU ESS LIN DA 'S FAVO RITE COLOR . (This is lifted straight from chats.) First person to guess right, wins the prize. step one: Linda, think of a color step two: Everyone else , post a color in this comment section or maybe at Linda's spot. If no one guesses, then I get the book. Linda, you decide which book. I hope it's Tick's story because I haven't read that one yet. I'll hold off buying it until Sunday. * * * We had 11 inches of snow yesterday and I shoved kids outside to play in the winter wonderland. At one point, my neighbor called just to say how sweet it was to watch her kids and m...

warning: this green bit is all about how brilliant I am and not much about Linda. She's one of those people I knew would be published . I read her unpubbed work and thought any minute . So I was off by a year but...Ha! I knew it. She has a new book out. I haven't read it yet but I will. Oh, yes. I will read her books. And here's my review of another Winfree book . Linda Winfree talks about Linda Winfree 1. I was a child bride. I’m almost 38 and will celebrate 19 years of marriage the same month. You do the math. (Oh, heavens. That’s half my life I’ve been married. That’s kinda . . . frightening.) 2. I have two Monsters. One is looking me in the eye and can outrun me since he started cross country. He’s very smart and wants to be an architect (he did not inherit the math or artistic ability he has from me). The other . . . The other is very smart and will one day take over the world. Be afraid. Be very afraid. 3. I’ve been the wife of a cop, truck driver, logistics manager a...