In A Bookish, Quilty Mood

Gratuitous chicken photos grace this post. All eight hens enjoyed a field trip yesterday to the garden! (Yes hens, as they are eighteen and a half weeks old, woo hoo!) A few posts ago I wrote an inadvertent and certainly impromptu synopsis for Home and Far Away . It was so cathartic and, well, thrilling to write all that, but the big question was would I employ any of that off the cuff random prose to promote a novel. Well, I used some of it. Hence today's title. Nadia Chicken likes investigating on her own. She's a Barnevelder, and one of my faves. Here's the post.  (Again, as I linked to it right off the bat, lol.) And below is what I actually sent off with the manuscript, all retailers using it. Well, Smashwords proffers a short synopsis first, then you can click for the long version.   Liberating Chelak from reproductive slavery, Sooz and Dardram find themselves in 1971 California on the front yard of widower Richard Lund and his five-year-old daughter Gilly. The ...

I'm looking very much forward to snuggling under this bright beauty, one of these days.... Anticipating machine piecing. And hopefully novel prepping....  Welp, I've done some novel-prepping, woo hoo! Home and Far Away now has end details and a chapter of the next book that one of these days I'll complete. Lol. But yeah, book stuff is happening! Synopses are next, insert winking emoji here. Truthfully, how to describe this story? Kind of like describing the quilt design pictured above. Fave Anna Maria Parry (AMP) prints old and new with some additional fabrics for good measure. I can't write that as a synopsis, but it correlates, because Home and Far Away is nearly a separate tale from the previous three Enran Chronicles books , mostly about Richard and Gilly Lund adjusting to two humans from outer space and an actual alien arriving with them. Set in rural California in 1971. With overtones of racial disparity and other biases intruding. And it's a love story. Clo...