Yes, Amanda, You Can be an Artist and a Mother

Mar 25 , 2015
  Motherhood does not define me. There, I’ve said it.  I love my daughter dearly.  She brought new worlds and concepts into my life that I would never have [...]
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International Women’s Day

Mar 08 , 2015
 I really hate this day because I’m not sure why we need a day to remind us that woman are important. We’re over half the human race. There are almost always more [...]
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The Woods Were Lovely, Dark and Deep . . . 

Feb 25 , 2015
I’ve gone from 80s & a warm Caribbean Sea to below freezing and snow, from tropics, to the buckle of the Bible Belt, to the East coast, back to the Bible Belt, to upper [...]
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Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Maze:

Feb 05 , 2015
The White Rabbit from The Nursery Alice by John Tenniel, Held and digitised by the British Library, and uploaded to Flickr Commons. A higher resolution version may be available [...]
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A Tropical Blog

Jan 28 , 2015
Things I have learned by being this long in the tropics: That it is possible to tan through SPF 100 sunscreen and if you don’t reapply regularly, it’s possible to burn [...]
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Teachers can make all the difference

Jan 15 , 2015
Beverly K. Sheline August 9, 1947 – January 10, 2015 Kokomo, Indiana Miss Beverly Sheline was an English teacher at my high school. She taught my first creative writing [...]
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New Blog – Happy Winter Solstice from Our Family to Yours

Dec 21 , 2014
Listening to Christmas carols and the ocean, as I sit outside and write to the glow of holiday lights. The windows are open behind me so the carols on the blue tooth speaker are [...]
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Celebrating being #1 on the New York Times List!

Dec 15 , 2014
The newest Anita Blake novel, Jason, is #1 on the New York Times List! Thanks to everyone that bought the book and showed how much they loved Jason the novel, and Jason the [...]
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New Blog – Jason, the novel, is here!

Dec 02 , 2014
Today is the official on sale date for my latest book, Jason! It’s the newest Anita Blake novel, and the first original paperback since Micah, thus the title being the name [...]
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Riots, Books, and Hope

Nov 25 , 2014
I live in St. Louis, Missouri, which is supposed to be the buckle of the Bible Belt here in the Mid-West of America. It’s a conservative town, like a lot of the middle of [...]
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