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Dear Reader,
This week's author, Kylie Logan, says she's been reading and writing as long as she can remember. Her first book in the Jazz Ramsey mystery series, The Scent of Murder, features Jazz Ramsey, who lives in Cleveland and volunteers training and handling cadaver dogs.
Kylie has also written Ethnic Eats and the League of Literary Ladies mysteries. Under the nom de plume, Casey Daniels, Kylie wrote the Pepper Martin mysteries, about a cemetery tour guide who solves mysteries for the ghosts she meets on the job.
Under the nom de plume, Casey Daniels, Kylie wrote the Pepper Martin mysteries, about a cemetery tour guide who solves mysteries for the ghosts she meets on the job.
Kylie says she's "owned" by her two dogs: a rescue named Lucy who grew up in an Ohio prison program, and a one-year-old Airedale, Eliot, who has never met anything that fits in his mouth that he doesn't try to eat.
Please send an email and welcome author Kylie Logan to the book club. She has three copies of her book to giveaway to book club readers. Email: Kylie@kylielogan.com
Thanks for visiting our book club Kylie...
It was small and made from heavy pink cardstock and like it was yesterday, I can still feel the tingle of excitement that raced through me when I first held it in my hands. Dad was the one who took me to get it, and I bet I'd bugged him for days about it. Dad was a cop and his schedule was crazy, but he made the time.
What I remember most is racing into the house with it clenched in one hand. It was a drizzly day, the windows were steamed. Mom was in the kitchen when I slapped through the door and made a scene.
"I got it! I got one!"
And I jumped up and down with my library card.
The first book I took out was, Horton Hatches the Egg. By the time I was a bit older, I was reading the classics. I remember pulling Island of the Blue Dolphins off the shelf in the school library. I recall searching high and low for Scaramouche after I watched dreamy Stewart Granger star in the movie. When I wasn't in school, I was reading. So much so that my mother purchased a (cheap!) print of the painting, A Young Girl Reading, by Jean-Honore Fragonard. She said it reminded her of me. I'm not too sure about that. The girl in the painting is elegant and composed as she reads. Me? I was sprawled on the couch, draped over the back porch steps, or spread out on the porch swing, book in hand and imagination a million miles away.
Our closest library, a branch of Cleveland Public, was our destination every Friday after school, and rain or shine we made the twenty-minute trek. Heaven forbid a library book was ever returned late! The Fleet Avenue Branch had a children's room up front and an adult room in back and being allowed there was a rite of passage that opened up a whole new world. In high school, I read and re-read Dorothy Dunnett's amazing The Game of Kings and the books that followed in that series. I devoured anything about King Arthur and of course, there was Conan Doyle.
Back then, I fumbled with my own poorly written short stories, but fifty-eight published novels later, I'm happy to say I've emulated my writer heroes.
All thanks to that little pink library card.
Do you remember your first experience with books? Send me an email and let me know, I love to hear from readers. Kylie@kylielogan.com
-- Kylie Logan
Email Kylie, Kylie@kylielogan.com, and when you do, you'll be entered in the drawing for a copy of her new book, The Scent of Murder.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
This month's Penguin Classics book is THE STONEWALL READER, by the New York Public Library, and including a foreword by Edmund White. I have a copy of the book to share with a lucky reader, so start reading today and enter for your chance to win.
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