Archives for “Native American”
Howdy! So nice to be able to talk to you today. Let me begin by saying that I’ll be giving away a free ebook — or print book — today — so come on in and leave a message. What an age in which we live, huh? In thinking about what to write today, I thought I [...]
A couple days ago I was tagged by Lois Greiman, author extraordinaire of Historical Romance and mystery. I am supposed to answer these following questions and then write a blog in answer to these questions, so here are my answers to the questions, but before we go there, let me say that I’ll be giving [...]
How I love the American West and how I love the stories that came out of that long ago West. This is one that I thought I’d share today — the story of a tame coyote, Smoky. This story comes to us from James Willard Schultz (Apikuni), who wrote the book BLACKFEET AND BUFFALO. It’s a [...]
Good Morning & Happy Tuesday! Since we’re coming up on Thanksgiving and since it is, for many of us, time with family, I’m hoping you’ll enjoy a leisurely trip through Native America and the “hat” that the elders of the tribe carried with them. And in addition, since we’re coming up on a holiday season, how about [...]
Happy Tuesday & Good Morning (or afternoon or evening)! Well, November seems to be a time that reminds me that Thanksgiving is in the air. Pumpkins, turkey, the smells of autumn in the air. Of course we are all pretty much aware that our Thanksgiving comes from the Eastern Indians, and in particular Squanto — [...]
A while back a group of inspirational authors and readers shared their favorite Native American stories, and so of course I made a list. I had read several of them, but am now collecting all these books. I wanted to share my list with you, because who doesn’t need a wish list? If you have [...]
Good Morning (or afternoon or evening)! This is my very first blog on the new site. I hope that you all are loving the new site. I think the new look is downright genius. Well, today we lost a true hero of the American Indian Movement and to the Lakotah Republic. Russell Means passed away today [...]
Howdy! I thought I’d take a break for a moment from the Story Behind the Story of my new releases and talk about something completely different — the business of writing. Well, this is sort of business and sort of pleasure. Romance Writer’s of America had their annual convention in Anaheim this year — in [...]
Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening & Happy Tuesday! Since I’m on this theme lately of the Story behind the story of several of my different books, I thought I’d backtrack a little and tell you some of the story behind the writing of LAKOTA PRINCESS. LAKOTA PRINCESS was the first book I ever wrote under [...]
Good Morning (or afternoon or evening) and welcome to another wonderful Tuesday edition of “The Story Behind the Story.” Because LAKOTA SURRENDER is being featured on Amazon for free right now (I think that promotion is still happening) and because LAKOTA SURRENDER is the book of choice that is being discussed on my publisher’s (Samhain Publishing) [...]
One of my favorite Western characters is the man who won the respect of hostile Apaches, captured Geronimo without a shot, served as the mayor and newspaper editor of Tombstone, Arizona and was a lifelong friend of Wyatt Earp. John Phillip Clum (1851-1932) was a bundle of chutzpah, energy and courage whose accomplishments became the stuff [...]
Happy Tuesday & Howdy! In my last post, we went into the Story Behind the Story of this same book, SOARING EAGLE’S EMBRACE. This story was so influenced by my love of the old Jeanette MacDonald movies (I’m never sure if that name is MacDonald or McDonald.) And I told you of their love for [...]
Good Morning (or Afternoon) and Happy Tuesday! Well in keeping with the “Story Behind the Story” theme, I have a new book soon to be released (it’s selling for a song right now). And that book is SOARING EAGLE’S EMBRACE. I’ll also be giving away a free book today to some lucky blogger so please [...]
Good Morning (or afternoon or evening)! Happy Tuesday to you! I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July and are just thrilled that you’re back to work. Are you? Well, if you’re not, don’t feel too bad about it — one of the hardest things to do, I think is get back to [...]
Good Morning or afternoon or good evening! It’s been a rather daunting two weeks, I must admit — one because I’m out of town and two because we had lost one of our cats, Midnight, last time I blogged. As I sit here writing this (on Sunday), I plan to leave to come home tomorrow. [...]
A few weeks ago, we didn’t dare get too excited about the impending eclipse. We live near the coast, but don’t believe the “sunny California” stuff. Our summers are so foggy we even have words for it: May Gray and June Gloom. Nonetheless, we rejoiced when that glorious afternoon blazed with sun! We did [...]
Good Morning (or afternoon or evening)! With the recent release of NIGHT THUNDER’S BRIDE in ebook format, I thought it would be nice to tell you a little bit about that book and if you will bear with me, about my cat, Midnight. Here are both covers of the book, the new one to the [...]
Howdy! WHITE EAGLE’S TOUCH — one of my best selling books — is currently being released newly in ebook format. And since it’s one of my favorites, I thought I’d tell you a little of the background that went in to the making of that book. I love this cover by the way. WHITE EAGLE’S [...]
Good afternoon or evening & Happy Tuesday! Did you know that most American Indians (before the advent of European civilization pushed in upon them) could tell from a footprint, a piece of clothing, the style of bow and arrow or other facets, what tribe the article came from? How many of us could tell by [...]
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening! Thanks for joining me here today. Let me say upfront that I will be giving away a free book today — I’m experimenting with giving away ebooks — so far I haven’t figured it out, so I might still be giving away mass market books — but I will be giving away another [...]
In the late 1950’s, Helen Cordero was 45 years old, and the mother of six children. She and her cousin’s wife, Juanita, had been doing bead and leather work to sell to the tourists who came to Cochiti Pueblo, south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both women were skilled artisans, but the leather and beads [...]
Howdy! Well, I thought we might do something just a little different today. Dreamy cover model Jason Baca is with us today — he won’t be here to answer questions personally, but he has said that he will be giving away a signed zed card to the winning commenter today. I’ll be doing a drawing [...]
Good Morning! Spring, plants, fresh grass, the smell of good earth and food gathering, and the reminder that the earth refreshes itself every year. I once did a series on preparedness and different plants that one could eat, use for medicine and that sort of thing – in truth, one can never be prepared enough in [...]
Good Morning (or afternoon or evening)! Well, it’s time for me to give away a book, so come on in and leave a comment and you’ll be entered into the book-getting contest. With the release of GRAY HAWK’S LADY (in just a few days), here’s a link to find out more: http://store.samhainpublishing.com/karen-kay-pa-1676.html?PHPSESSID=e42437db2cd57ca12b4eda0212e79f5d – I thought I [...]
Good Morning or Afternoon or Evening, whenever you’re joining us! I’m filling in for Stacey today and in thinking over my post, I thought I’d perhaps tell you a bit of a story within a story. Since GRAY HAWK’S LADY is being released now (soon to be released) for the first time in ebooks, I [...]
