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| Wishing you a safe and fun Halloween!! |
Roseanne and I are swapping blogs today, so when you finish here, please click on over to Roseanne's blog and meet my character, Lauren Staab from my new mystery, Deadly Undertaking.
Welcome Beatrice Lulu! Please introduce yourself to our readers.
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Why, thank you, J.Q.
I’m Beatrice Lulu Eberhardt.
Some of you know me from my niece, Callie Johnson. Callie’s the police chief of
our little town, and I first appeared in her book, All in the Family.
Callie’s my favorite niece, but
she doesn’t know it. I’ve annoyed her sometimes because I tried to fix her up
with a nice young man, well several nice young men, over the years. I didn’t
want her ending up an old maid like I almost was. I say almost, because Ed came
along and saved me that fate – I shudder to think what my life would have been like without him.
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| All's Well That Ends Well Cozy mystery |
Callie didn’t care for any of
the men I introduced her to. Picky little thing in my opinion. Praise God, she
finally met a nice young man on her own.
But that’s neither here nor
there. This story isn’t about Callie. It’s about me. That’s right, ME, and
pretty much no one else. I consider myself a bit of a sleuth. Some call me nosy
or a busy body, but honestly, I’m only trying to help. I don’t mean to
interfere. I can’t help if I have a curious nature. I’ve always been that way,
but got worse as I got older.
It actually all started when Ed
and I bought a cabin. It’s a beautiful place with its own lake because Ed loves
to fish. We thought it would be fun to have a place just for us, away from
everyone. You may not remember I’m from a large, crazy family. Crazy in a
fun-loving way, of course. So Ed and I wanted a place to relax away from it
all, not that it’s turned out that way. We’re seldom alone. Guess it’s because
we genuinely like people. So now days when we go up there, someone always comes
along. Usually Ethel and her husband, Greg. Ethel’s my sister, by the way. I
have two other sisters, also – Charlotte, we call her Lottie, and Lillian.
Lillian is Callie’s mother, and not as much fun as the rest of us. We also have
a brother, Clyde, but we don’t see him as often.
Anyway, we bought the cabin,
and Ed and I went up there to clean it up. No one had been in it for years.
Cobwebs filled more than the corners, I’ll tell you that. It was going to take
days, if not weeks, to clean it. But Ed promised we could fix it up and Ed
never breaks a promise. That’s one of the things I love about him.
So there we were looking
around, figuring out what to do, and Ed decided to build a fire to take the
chill and damp out of the air. The place smelled musty, the way empty houses
smell after being locked up for a long time.
Well there I was, thinking
about where to start when I heard a strange clattering noise. I thought Ed fell
or something. I turned around and lying on the fireplace hearth was an arm –
well what was left of the arm, bones and tattered flannel from a shirt, I
assume. Although I’ve been told never to assume anything.
If you want to know what
happens next you’ll have to read about it in All’s Well
That Ends Well just released from Books We Love.
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| All in the Family Romantic comedy/Mystery |
If you haven’t read All in the Family – Book 1 of the Family
Affair series, you can find it and all of Roseanne's books at Books We Love.
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She is an avid reader. Roseanne writes various types of romance - paranormal, contemporary, and mystery. She has several books available at Amazon as well as over 40 articles and short stories published in magazines such as Good Old Days, Nostalgia, and Ohio Writer as well as several online publications. Besides teaching writing courses for Long Story School of Writing, she also taught two writing courses for the Encore Program at Cuyahoga Community College.
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| Author Roseanne Dowell |
Roseanne lives in Northeast Ohio where she enjoys life as a wife, mother of six, grandmother of fourteen and great grandmother of two. When she’s not writing or enjoying her family, Roseanne spends her time with embroidery and quilting, especially combining the two. She also enjoys blogging, tweeting, facebooking and posting on various writers groups.
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4 comments:
Thanks for letting me be part of your blog. I enjoy doing these exchanges and meeting Lauren.
You're welcome. Glad you're here! I enjoyed Beatrice Lulu. She's always curious. Is that a nicer word for busy-body?
What a fun post! Beatrice is a hoot and sounds like a fun person to know. I'll share. :)
Oh yes, Marsha. She is a hoot and Roseanne writes her so well, you get to know her and how she'll react to the crazy situations she gets herself in. Thanks for sharing!
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