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Christine Steeves Speakman
writer, poet/artist, editor, reader, reviewer
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Category: Personal Shares

Reader: Fun Read – A Victorian Mystery, Mrs. Jeffries by Emily Brightwell

June 29, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

Emily Brightwell’s website MRS. JEFFRIES MYSTERIES IN ORDER OF PUBLICATION Inspector & Mrs. Jeffries (1993) Mrs. Jeffries Dusts For Clues…

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Reader: Fun Read – MuseItUp Author, T. Briar’s Isle of Savages

May 25, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

  The name of T. Briar is fictitious. A variation of another pseudonym for a South Georgia born writer with…

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Reader: Fun Read – Father Brown Mysteries by G.K. Chesterton

April 27, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

Books first; television series second The American Chesterton Society “…G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown may seem a pleasantly doddering Roman…

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Reader: Fun Read – Sister Fidelma mystery series by Peter Tremayne

March 30, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

The International Sister Fidelma Society “…The Sister Fidelma mysteries are set mainly in Ireland during the mid-seventh century AD. Sister…

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Reader: Fun Read – Anita Blake series and Merry Gentry series, by Laurell K. Hamilton

February 23, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

Vampires, werewolves, hunters, bounties, supernatural creatures. Fairies, their king-queendoms, family. Love and Sex. You either love Hamilton’s worlds or you…

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Reader: Fun Read – Game of Thrones series by George R.R. Martin

January 26, 2017 christinesteevesspeakman

Really, there’s no way I can type out the full blurbs or describe the full series and details, but let…

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Reader: Fave Book: The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

December 22, 2016 christinesteevesspeakman

Wikipedia quick info on author

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Reader: Fave Book: A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

December 15, 2016 christinesteevesspeakman

The Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

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Reader: Reading Now – Except the Dying, A Murdoch Mystery, by Maureen Jennings

December 1, 2016 christinesteevesspeakman

Author Website Blurb: In the cold Toronto winter of 1895, the unclad body of a servant girl is found frozen…

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Reader: Reading Now – City of Bones, The Mortal Instruments, Book 1 by Cassandra Clare

November 24, 2016 christinesteevesspeakman

Author’s Page Blurb: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects…

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I first came to the internet to figure out how to get published and ended up a reviewer, copy editor, editor, blogger, writer, still reviewing.

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The truth is…it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter if 1 or a billion sees me, or you, I’ll/you’ll always see myself/yourself. What’s that line…wherever you go; there you are. We all carry our own baggage.

There’s no escaping who we are…I don’t want to escape myself. I want to be me and with that, here I am, all of me.

 

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