I am delighted to announce that my eBook is now available for check-out from libraries in the UK via Rakuten OverDrive!

Follow THIS LINK, and/or consult your local library for availability. I guess we Goates have come full circle now. I may be an American, but back around the time my story is set, my great-great- (? I’m not going to go re-counting at the moment) Grandfather William Goates, Sr. was a landscape gardener there at […]

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“Elke became at once desperate to peruse the shelves of this library…”

(6/14/19) Support your local public library! And if you live in the author’s home region of north Florida/south Georgia (or attend his Alma Mater 😉 ), you may just find yourself able to check out his book already. Just imagine… reading a brand new novel, for free, three full days before Amazon even ships its

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Let it Rain!

(Day 13) For release day, have a YouTube video that has always brought me joy. Oh, to have been there! It might also be an inside joke to my fellow north Floridians. We’re suffering through an absolutely vicious drought at the moment. Well… my book’s out. It’s on you now. I hope you enjoy it.

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Mystery Quote?

(Day 12) For today, I give you a mystery quote: Today nobody will stop with faith; they all go further. […] In [the] old days it was different. For then faith was a task of a whole lifetime, not a skill thought to be acquired in either days or weeks. When the old campaigner approached

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Peach Tart

(Day 11) If you’ve followed me for a while, you know you may occasionally encounter a baked good, especially a tart. Well, for today’s post I decided to offer up a picture of our afternoon’s work, and why my post is coming a bit late. Let me start by saying that I’m not happy with

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For Today, A Quote

(Day 10) As today has been rather busy, I’ll resort to a quote, which I hope is still in the minds of at least some of the students I ever had the pleasure of teaching: The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill

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