Over the next couple weeks I will be tidying up this blog as well as transferring content over from a Blogger blog that I want to close. My goal is to finish up some blogging challenges as well as get back to regular blogging on what is really my primary “me” blog.
Thanks for your patience.
Moe
Beth Gutcheon, author of Gossip, is the critically acclaimed author of eight previous novels: The New Girls, Still Missing, Domestic Pleasures, Saying Grace, Five Fortunes, More Than You Know, Leeway Cottage and Good-bye and Amen. She is the writer of several film scripts, including the Academy Award nominee The Children of Theatre Street. She lives…
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