MORELS & MORALS! June is blooming with both. MOREL  mushrooms poked through Minnesota earth in wooded areas around our home in May and June. My eagle-eyed daughter—who once could spot a 4-leaf clover while sitting astride a horse—did not lose her childhood talent. She quickly filled two bags with the brainy-looking fungi while I spotted only freckled mushrooms that were big as dinner plates. Google and FB to the rescue! My dinner plate mushrooms are called pheasant backs, according to a FB friend who suggested the edges were more edible than the middle. For a Morel Treat, wash them in cold water, dry gently & dip in egg yolk, then dredge in a mix of flour and your seasoning choice, including garlic powder, and fry in butter. Yumm!
 Connecting some dots with MORELS in mind, I was already deep into research for Book #3 of my Accidental Series— reading Irish fairy tales. Of course, fairy tales are known for their MORALS—silly or serious. Themes in fiction often drip into the morality pool. In The Accidental Wife, a grieving woman is transformed in a summer of time travel to find her soulmate in 1886. The twist on that genre found the soulmate springing ahead to reunite with her again in the 21st century sequel—The Accidental Stranger. (Time travel is a nifty plot filter when a man loves two identical women and a woman loves two identical men in the same family.) Consider an alternate MORAL in both books: The transforming power of love bridges even time. . . to seek that sweet “forever.”
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THANKS to all of you who VOTED for The Accidental Stranger in the recent InD’tale contest for the 2018 RONE AWARD! Happily, I was one of 3 finalists in my category. Book now goes on to be ‘professionally judged’ for the Time Travel RONE presented in Burbank, Calif. in October. I may have to do some travel in real time?
WINNERS CIRCLE: This month I am the spotlight guest of several authors I admire. Check out both my FB sites all month for links to the GHOSTLY “Coincidences” I found when writing The Accidentals. Make a comment on the sites and you could win a FREE PDF COPY of any one of my books. Congratulations to winners from last month's task: Luann Johnson, Kathy Laurie, Darcy Lundeen, Julia Martin, and Lori Wilde.
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