It's been some time since I dropped a line and had a chance to read other blogs and posts at Crimespace. Mea Culpa.

I head back to the island of Antigua in the Caribbean--was invited to attend the Antigua and Barbuda Literary Festival that will be held the first weekend in November. Though meant to celebrate Caribbean authors, I've been invited because of my novel-in- progress, Murder Visits Antigua, a Golden Age mystery, and because of my Amazon Shorts story, "Antiguan Memories."…

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Hey, Tony,

Glad to see you here and thanks for posting. I have replied to several folks and apparently didn't hit the right key to "send." So I hope this post makes it. Glad to have Tony on board as one of "my friends." I'm accumulating a lot, which pleases me. I must confess that as a former kindergarten teacher, I have this compulsion to circle you all around me, and have you say something about yourself, so that others can know you and be friendly with you. Some old habits…

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It's all part of the dream -- a beach bar and book club on a tropical island. Who wouldn't like that! This pix was taken on one of the tiny, uninhabited Five Islands off Antigua in the Caribbean. I wrote on a bed sheet and my Antiguan friend sailed me over , strung it up on some cactus and justting rocks, and then took the picture. Of course, I was doing research for my Golden Age mystery, Murder Visits Antigua, The protagonist is Aunt Amelia, not a close cousin to Miss Marple, and not Amelia… Continue