Merry Christmas at the beach

Merry Christmas to all! And may the New Year be filled with joy and hope and better things. In the meantime, these books, along with the books from the Blue House series, are discounted on Amazon. Hope my readers have enjoyed reading my novels. Serenade of the Cattails, the fourth novel in the Blue House…

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Christmas gifts!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hope this is a wonderful season for everybody.  Now thru the Christmas holidays my Topsail Island Trilogy is on sale on Amazon. Check out these good prices. Also, The Blue House Series is also on sale. Check it out on my author page, Carol Ann Ross, author.

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Topsail Island Tango

The Blue House series, right now my most favorite series, is well on its way to having the fourth book completed.. It’s all about the old swing bridge, the huge dunes we once had, the 9 fishing piers, and characterizations of the people who came and went (and stayed), that I can muster. Of course…

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I hear music

  I hear music If you love the ocean, the marsh-the mountains, wherever “your” place is— and if you’ve spent hours there, contemplating, dreaming, whatever-maybe this excerpt from Serenade of the Cattails will make sense to you.   Seeing herself as the girl (she’d never stopped doing that) Mary licked her lips to the memory…

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Terms, conditions and secrets

I learned a new word.The word is draoi. It is pronounced “dree,” phonetically and it is of Scottish/Irish origin. If you look up the meaning it refers to someone who has healing powers. My Mary character, In Serenade of the Cattails, refers to herself as a draoi, though modestly, citing that her powers are limited…

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cattails

I’ve lately been working on the 4th book in the Blue House Series, Serenade of the Cattails. This book, as the others in the series, is set in the 1960s. What a very different world that period is from the one we live in now. Or is it? Or not so much, huh? Crazy times…

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Who likes short shorts?

Who likes short shorts? We like short shorts….words to a song popular in the 1960s. And this is a photo of my father, my sister and myself in 1967. It was a different world then, we saw nothing wrong with wearing short shorts-and that was way before Daisy Dukes came into fashion. People thought differently…

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Fishy fishy fish

If you remember the swing bridge Topsail had a few years ago, then perhaps the blurb on this back cover will bring back some good memories. If you don’t remember the bridge, hopefully it will give you an idea of how things were way back when, in the 1960s. Blowfish is set in the Vietnam…

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Blowfish cover

Off to the printer, manuscript and cover. So very excited to get this baby done. I love the cover, the back is great too and I’ll add that later. For now, check out Amazon in a few days if you want to order one and check with me or with local stores in about two…

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BLOWFISH

BLOWFISH! It is off to the editor and hopefully will be available in a couple of weeks. We are working on the cover and I’ll post that asap–things are going along swimmingly. BLOWFISH is the third novel in the BLUE HOUSE SERIES and to tell the truth, it is probably my favorite book. (Hairawn Muhly…

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