07.22.2024

A Little Magic, a lot of Love, and a Kid Named Tate

“Old” book, “new” cover.
“A Different Kind of Normal” has a little magic in it, a lot of love, and a kid named Tate who jumped into my mind, clear as could be, as soon as I started writing.
Here’s the scoop…
“My mother told me all about the witches in our family. She heard the stories from her mother, who heard them from her mother, and so on, all the way back to the mid-1800’s, in London, where the twins, Henrietta and Elizabeth, started The Curse.
Henrietta and Elizabeth were inseparable from the time they reached across their mother’s bosom for the other’s hand. Their mother was considered to be the best witch of them all, whatever that silly statement means, and she taught the twins. They practiced their spells in the forest behind the fountains and statues on the manicured estate their mother’s wealthy, titled family owned.
Together Henrietta and Elizabeth had eight children who would later prove to be both saints and raucous sinners, especially the girls, as is often the case in witch families, or so I’m told…”
Jaden Bruxelle is a nurse. She does not believe in ancestral witches or curses or magical spells. She does believe in her nephew, Tate, who lives with her. Tate was born with an oversized head. Academically gifted, he endures taunts and teasing, but rises above it with kindness, jokes, and a brilliant intellect.
Jaden also believes in her mother, Rowan, a blunt speaking internationally famous soap opera star, and her brother, Caden, a single father with four children, three of them triplets, who will only wear Halloween outfits.
But as magic spins in and out of the herbs in her greenhouse, Jaden finally acknowledges The Curse as she smells the scent of death.
A Different Kind of Normal is available to buy in e-book or paperback, only on Amazon, and is also in Kindle Unlimited.
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07.18.2024

She Has Ulterior Motives – New Book Coming Soon!

The link to my latest newsletter on Substack – free for all to read – is below.
It’s about…my new book!
(and Montana, Big Foot, and daydreaming.)

 

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07.16.2024

a new book will be out and about soon

i will say this in a whisper voice with no grammar at all just for fun but i have a new book coming out soon and this is a photo of the rockies in montana where i was gallivanting about last week and where my new book might be set it is about how love can be surprising especially when you have given up on it

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07.01.2024

A Bird Miracle

Today was an ordinary day and then a bird miracle occurred. This Blue Heron flew over my head while I was in my garden thinking about how truly terrible my Christmas story is that I’m trying to write.
I thought to myself kind and generous thoughts like: You should quit writing. You should become a hermit in the backwoods. And, remember, Cathy, it’s a Christmas story. Don’t kill anyone off. No one wants death with their stockings and ornaments.
Then the Blue Heron appeared out of nowhere.
I love blue herons. You could say that they are the Lamb Family Bird. When Innocent Husband, Rebel Dancing Daughter, Adventurous Singing Daughter, or Darling Laughing Son or I see a Great Blue Heron, we always yell out, “GBH!” It’s a family moment.
Anyhow, I watched the Great Blue Heron as he watched me, marveling at how elegant and cool he was. A few minutes later another Great Blue Heron soared over my head, like a mini blue plane, flapped his enormous wings at Great Blue Heron #1, and they both flew over my pink magnolia trees and golden lilies, on to their next adventure.
A pair. A couple. Friends. It was just an incredible moment.
Sometimes ya have to look for that little bit of beauty and sometimes the beauty comes to you and you are very lucky indeed.
Have a good day. Wishing you a bird miracle.
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06.25.2024

A Great Blue Heron or Two

Today was an ordinary day and then a bird miracle occurred. This Blue Heron flew over my head while I was in my garden thinking about how truly terrible my Christmas story is that I’m trying to write.
I thought to myself kind and generous thoughts like: You should quit writing. You should become a hermit in the backwoods. And, remember, Cathy, it’s a Christmas story. Don’t kill anyone off. No one wants death with their stockings and ornaments.
Then the Blue Heron appeared out of nowhere. I love blue herons. You could say that they are the Lamb Family Bird. When Innocent Husband, Rebel Dancing Daughter, Adventurous Singing Daughter, or Darling Laughing Son or I see a Great Blue Heron, we always yell out, “GBH!” It’s a family moment.
Anyhow, I watched the Great Blue Heron as he watched me, marveling at how elegant and cool he was. A few minutes later another Great Blue Heron soared over my head, like a mini blue plane, flapped his enormous wings at Great Blue Heron #1, and they both flew over my pink magnolia trees and golden lilies, on to their next adventure.
A pair. A couple. Friends. It was just an incredible moment.
Sometimes ya have to look for that little bit of beauty and sometimes the beauty comes to you and you are very lucky indeed.
Have a good day. Wishing you a bird miracle.
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06.18.2024

A Writer Chills Out in Montana

On Saturday I left Oregon at the torturous, bone-jangling hour of six in the morning to head to Helena, Montana.

I don’t “do” six in the morning. I feel like I’ve been hit in the face by a flying goat. It’s unhealthy for me to get up that early. Definitely a fright to my nervous system. I don’t like any frightful things happening to my nervous system as I am nervous enough already.

But, alas, I’ll do just about anything to de-fry my brain and calm down in Montana. It’s like heaven was drawn in a painting and the painting landed across the entire state. I feel like I can breathe when I’m there. Plus, there’s something about the rivers and the mountains that make writing and delving into my boiling and toiling imagination easier.

CLICK ON THE SUBSTACK LINK FOR MORE (Free, of course)

https://cathylamb.substack.com/p/finding-peace-in-montana

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06.13.2024

Sun, Flowers, Books

Need a summer book?

Available only on Amazon.

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05.28.2024

The Bad Year That Brought About My New Book

2023 was not a good year.
I’ve had worse.
Years I try not to think about much.
But 2023 was tough.
Someone lied about me and it was very painful.
Don’t worry! The lie was not about me burying a body, slugging someone in a bar fight, running naked along a river, or watering a weak man’s Alfa Romeo with a hose after popping a cherry pie into his smirky face. These are all things I’ve made the characters in my books do, but I have never done anything so exciting myself, unfortunately.
The lie that was told was like being bitten by a know-it-all crocodile with a weird smile and a superiority complex.
CLICK ON THE LINK FOR MORE FUN AND GAMES…

https://open.substack.com/pub/cathylamb/p/not-an-easy-year?r=kayfq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

(Yes this is what happened to my house…)

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05.21.2024

Read With Me! Prologue and First Chapter of Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid

Hello all,

If you would like to read the Prologue of Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid, copy and paste the Substack link below.

Have a good day!

https://open.substack.com/pub/cathylamb/p/a-little-snippet?r=kayfq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

 

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05.14.2024

Thank You!

Thanks to everyone who bought my new book Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid.

Truly.

Thank you.

Cathy

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