PEGGY FIELDING'S NEWSLETTER
Vol. 7 Number 7 July 2007

SOMETHING SPECIAL?

Is this issue lucky or what? Look up at the numbers...vol. 7, no. 7, 2007. Hm-m-m.

TO THE ARCHIVES

Go to www.peggyfielding.com to see the tarted up version of my newsletter for this month. The thing always looks better when my web master has put his touches on it.

A GLORIOUS BOOK

Paula Alfred brought THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE to me at Rehab. I couldn't read it there. It's a hardback book, beautifully bound and incased in a lovely dustcover. It's a huge, heavy book. I couldn’t even pick the thing up for months. Recently, I tried again, and hurrah! I could lift it and read it without straining. It weighs 3 pounds. (Yeah, I weighed it.)

By Philippa Gregory, the story gripped me.

For years I've read about a book a day, usually 5 to 6 paperbacks per week. I consider any day without reading to be a wasted day.

SOME THINGS ARE JUST TOO MUCH

However, THE BOLEYN INHERITANCE is now on its third day. It measures 6 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches outside and it's 2 inches thick. The story has taken me by storm. If you have a chance, read this big baby. It is fiction, based on historical facts. Wonderful!

HENS AGAIN?

Well, I spoke too soon last month. Five well-respected writers have stepped up to the plate and offered to become HENS. I would have loved to have worked with any of them but, guess what? Jackie and Paula have come around. Now they are considering the paranormal FOXY HEN book with interest, so guess I'll just keep them on in my hen yard.

SUGGESTION FROM DEBBY CAMP, FAMOUS AUTHOR

Debby Camp e-mailed me about the list of titles for the HENS next book. Deborah prefers the first on the list and maybe she's right. After all, she is the author of more than fifty successful novels so maybe we'll go with 1 on the list. (See last month's newsletter if you want to reread the list.)

Debby has given up writing romance novels and is editing (and writing) for three nonfiction magazines these days.

Here are her exact words from some months ago: "I'm through with romance, Peggy, burned out. I'm never even going to READ another romance."

So what did I do? I gave her my latest book in galley to read... A SCOUNDRELS' BARGAIN, which is a western set romance, and I boldly asked her to read and comment.

Debby tells me now she has read my book twice, and was delighted by it each time. Life doesn't get much better than that for a writer, my friends! She even gave me a charming blurb to use on the book. She swears she didn't throw it against the wall as she did the last romance she purchased. She loved my book. Maybe because her Father was my mule consultant?

ANOTHER FRIEND AIDING MY CAREER

Romney Nesbitt is determined to have FOXY STATEHHOOD HENS and A SCOUNDRELS' BARGAIN reviewed everywhere. She has put revues into more than six different publications and is still trying for more! She has us on Amazon, Women Writing the West newsletter and several others, already. What a good pal she is!

SAD NEWS

My former writing partner, Gary Drummond, died last week. We did many a book together, mostly nonfiction. Our editor at Simon & Schuster loved any proposal we sent him. Gary dropped out of the writing business to concentrate on growing his "money making profession," his company, Special Services. The world will miss that young man. He was only 63. To some of us that looks almost like youth.

AND SO IT GOES

Next month I will write about a supernatural or perhaps I should say "weird" experience which I had recently involving males and bicycles and the Whittier Kendall area of Tulsa. See you in August, friends.

Love and hugs all around.

Peggy Lou Moss Fielding