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January 2023 Newsletter Reprint – Meet the author, and her muse
Read Previous Newsletter Reprints Helloooooooooo, Keiti, and welcome back to my camo-painted jeep, and if you’ve recently joined Club Untamed, a double heartwarming ‘hello.’ Thrilled to have you aboard for our monthly safari! While we’re gearing up to learn new things about animals we might be lucky enough to see on our trip today, I want to share the theme for my prequel and 5 book series. Time Flies is a hybrid of genres including time travel, paranormal, midlife romance and even some historical fiction. The common theme running through all the books is: You do have a second chance to make a first impression! This lends itself to…
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July 2022 Newsletter Reprint – Age is a State of Mind, not a State of Being
Read Previous Newsletter Reprints Helloooooooooo Again. Always a joy to have you back in my world. Aging has been on my mind since Athol and I recently had birthdays. I’ve come to the conclusion you are only as old as you think you are. I reckon we can learn a whole lot about handling age from Mother Earth. So, lean back, relax, and get ready for some au-natural tips to keep you youthful, as we have fun in the sun on our safari! Ahhhh, let’s slow down to watch a herd of elephant. Some forage while youngsters frolic in a mud bath and the rest look on, their expressive, giant…
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February 2022 Newsletter Reprint – Excerpts await you…
Read Previous Newsletter Reprints Helloooooooooo, and welcome back to my camo jeep! I don’t know about you, but my life’s been a hellofa ride lately, so, climb aboard and let you and me de-stress, and soak up nature’s wonders as we cruise along, reveling in the unmarred beauty around us. Deep breath in, as we welcome all things that make us happy, and out… letting go of all the nyagas (troubles/rubbish/poop/yukkie stuff) while we cruise through the living, breathing, beautiful tableau that is South Africa’s wild side. As we watch the elephant frolic and the flamingoes fly in sync, skimming the water with wide pink wings; and we hear the…
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January 2022 Newsletter Reprint – It’s Summer in South Africa
Read Previous Newsletter Reprints Helloooooooooo again, and welcome back to my camo-painted jeep. It’s clean as a whistle thanks to the heavy rains in Gauteng (formerly the Transvaal) this time of year. It’s the height of summer in South Africa, and on our safari today the animals will be in their element as they show off, frolic and play, making the most of the newly created waterholes. You see, water is scarce in southern Africa, so when at last the rains come, all of us—mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates and fish—celebrate. Today we might see a herd of elephants trumpeting and playfully squirting each other as they convert…
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Interview with Lucy Lakestone!
You write in more than one genre. What do you get out of writing adventure, romance and funny mysteries? The truth is that I love writing in various genres, and you can see my varied passions in my tendency to bend and blend genres. I started writing adventure under another name, and those books had some romance in them. I started looking at romance as the next genre to explore, especially as I learned how smart, diverse and feminist so much romance is. So I wrote a steamy romance series, The Bohemia Beach Series. These books are hot but also have rich love stories at their heart, along with humor.…