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Serial: Down the River – Chapter Two

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! A familiar face in a new place… < Read Chapter 1 | Read Chapter 3 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter TwoPane e Tulipani Carmelina stirred the muffin batter by hand, blending in fresh-cut apples, caramel, … Read more

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Serial: Down the River – Chapter One

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I’m finally revisiting the characters from The River City Chronicles nine years after their original timeline. I’ll be running the series weekly here on my blog, and then will release it in book form at the end of the run. Hope you enjoy catching up with all your faves and all their new secrets! We start out in a familiar place, but with someone new… Read Chapter 2 > Join my email list to get my weekly newsletter with notifications of new chapters. Chapter OneRagazzi Ainsley Kim stared out of the window at the cars as they passed on Folsom … Read more

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Making Cookies for Tonight’s Milk and Cookies Reading Event!

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  Making cookies for our milk and cookies night at the Lavender Library (1414 21st St – dammit I was close) in Sacramento tonight. come eat some cookies and hear a few readings by local authors at 5 pm! Event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/442831686049700 Posted by J. Scott Coatsworth on Sunday, March 19, 2017 How to share with just friends. Posted by Facebook on Friday, December 5, 2014 Making cookies for our milk and cookies night at the Lavender Library (1414 21st St – dammit I was close) in Sacramento tonight. If you’re in the Sacramento area, come eat some cookies and … Read more

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I Have Liked a Thing

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It’s the fourth Wednesday since my last turn at the Mischief Corner Books blog, so it must be time for me to like a new thing: My husband Mark and I live in Sacramento, the Capitol of California, and thought by many to still be a bit of  a cow town. When we moved here back in 2003, it kind of was. But we were part of an influx of residents from the liberal, cultured San Francisco Bay Area. The wave of immigration brought a hunger for great cuisine and good local theatre. ​We started exploring, and over the years we’ve come … Read more

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Point of View: Trouble Right Here in River City

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I’m about to embark on a brand new adventure, something that I as a writer have never done before. I’m going to write a serialized piece of fiction, a story that unfolds slowly and publicly week by week on my blog. And as if that weren’t enough of a challenge, I’m going to release each new episode simultaneously in both Italian and English. Several things have come together recently to make this possible: I started a new blog for myself as a writer in June, which needed content I published Between the Lines with Dreamspinner Press in July, a magical … Read more