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Lorna Collins

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Lorna Collins co-authored 31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park, a memoir, published in 2005 with her husband, Larry K. Collins. They are also the authors of two cozy mysteries: Murder...They Wrote, and Murder in Paradise. Their latest collaboration is The Memory Keeper, a historical novel.
She and her husband completed a story idea begun by her brother following his death. Dominic Drive is a coming-of age story set in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Lorna has co-written six romance anthologies: Snowflake Secrets, Seasons of Love, Directions of Love (2011 EPIC eBook Award for Romance Anthology), The Art of Love, ...And a Silver Sixpence in Her Shoe, and An Aspen Grove Christmas
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Lorna Collins I am usually working on at least two different books at the same time. If I get stuck on one, I work on the other.
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How do you summarize a friendship of over fifty years? Ihave been wrestling with this for a couple of weeks. I still can’t figure itout, so I’ll start at the beginning.
We met Bernie when my mother-in-love bribed us to attendingchurch with her. We had stopped going to church several years before. We had livedout of the state, and when we returned, our previous church was gone.
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Lorna Collins Christine wrote: "thanks for being my friend"

You're welcome. Check out my books on Goodreads, too.


Christine Hatfield thanks for being my friend


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Beth Hi Lorna,
Thanks for befriending this fellow mystery author on Goodreads!


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Lorna Collins Thanks for yours as well!


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Zetta HI LORNA!!! Thanks for the add :D

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