My wife and I spent Thanksgiving dinner in our backyard on a beautiful Arizona day, just the two of us. She insisted on making a full turkey, dressing, potatoes and gravy fest. It tasted incredible, and we ate like kings and queens for the next three days. Our children are scattered all across the country […]
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My wife and I no longer travel by air due to myriad challenges I won’t bore you with. But we love road-tripping in the Western US, particularly from our home in Arizona to Orange County or Austin, Texas. The big draw in the OC is the indomitable Charlotte, our granddaughter, for whom I do not
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I am one of ten children raised by an amazing woman. Mom would have been 95 years old this week; she left us five years ago. One of my siblings told me Mom hoped to move to Paris for a while around age 20, but Dad spotted her on the stage before a Christmas production in
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I write my books while constantly editing previous chapters—it’s what works for me. Doheny Drive will be my fourth book and very different from the others. Of course, the final version will differ in ways unknown, but I’m hoping you get a strong sense of place and time and are intrigued by how I set
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I rolled into the bathroom this morning, looked into the mirror, and said to myself, Who the what the hell is that? Hours later, my wife took a short video clip of me plugging my latest book release, The Emerald Cross – – that’s the video on my Instagram feed. Again, I asked myself, Who
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Thank you to anyone who has downloaded an e-book or purchased a paperback or hardcover of The Emerald Cross! Life is so busy today, and you readers have only so much personal to read books, including stories from emerging authors like Ken Cruickshank. So, if you have flipped pages of my just-released novel digitally or
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My second novel, The Emerald Cross, launched yesterday! Paperback, hardcover, and e-book versions are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or other retailers. I will not lie; this getting-books-ready-for-launch routine is beyond taxing, mentally and physically. But I thoroughly enjoy writing stories, so the process of creating, marketing, and distributing them digitally and physically is
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