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Darlene Matule

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Glasgow, Montana, The United States

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I spent my childhood in Glasgow, Montana, a town of 5000 (some say that number includes the dogs and cats), a town so safe a pubescent girl could walk home alone at 11 p.m. after seeing a movie with a friend. With no fear of abduction—or worse. So inept at sports that I was always the last one chosen to play a compulsory game of playground baseball, to my credit I could beat little-old-ladies in a no-holds-barred game of whist. And did. For ten years I took piano lessons from an elegant woman with a name that emotes talent—Florence Fennessey Friedland. However. after a decade of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, my musical talent is a life-long love of Gershwin, especially Rhapsody in Blue, with excellent keyboard skills thrown in as an aside.

Sew I spent my childhood in Glasgow, Montana, a town of 5000 (some say that number includes the dogs and cats), a town so safe a pubescent girl could walk home alone at 11 p.m. after seeing a movie with a friend. With no fear of abduction—or worse. So inept at sports that I was always the last one chosen to play a compulsory game of playground baseball, to my credit I could beat little-old-ladies in a no-holds-barred game of whist. And did. For ten years I took piano lessons from an elegant woman with a name that emotes talent—Florence Fennessey Friedland. However. after a decade of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, my musical talent is a life-long love of Gershwin, especially Rhapsody in Blue, with excellent keyboard skills thrown in as an aside.

Sewing and 4-H were my vehicles to success. After college (majored in home economics and minored in journalism), I married the love-of-my-life, Steve, had two daughters and, until my youngest was in 4th grade, was a stay-at-home-mom. I joined too many women’s organizations to mention, looking for fulfillment. Bored, one October Friday, I took a one-day, five-dollar-an-hour job because I “didn’t have any plans that day.” I found business was more fun than staying at home.

Until—on a trip to (then) Yugoslavia—I became a writer. One day I sat in a 19th century farmhouse kitchen in the heart of Croatia drinking the potent plum brandy called sljivovica and eating bread fresh from the corner brick oven and asked myself, “What if?” I've set my novels (Under the Gallus Frame and the sequel Framework of a Family) in places I know from two trips to Yugoslavia/Croatia and a lifetime of learning about the “Mining Capital of the World”— Butte Montana.

After years of working in the business world, I am now a full-time author, part-time volunteer, and dedicated reader. I find researching and/or writing books to be fulfilling and fun. I also enjoy my daughters and three grandsons, getting dirt under my fingernails working in the garden, and traveling with my husband, Steve.

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Nasdrala Te Nova Godina!
(Happy New Year in Croatian)

New Year’s Eve always seemed the beginning of the new year for me, not January 1st.

As a kid: The Barnes and Johnson families went back and forth making holiday dinners. One year we’d host Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. The next year we’d only have everyone at our house on Christmas. It was a good deal. Everyone was happy. We were best friends. Read more of this blog post »

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Jul 02, 2012 02:44PM

Darlene wrote: "Wicked Eddies Beth Goodfellow

First read of series. Impressed by author's knowledge of location and subject matter (my fisher husband commented "authentic/great") Enjoyed author's dialogue a..."

Hi Darlene,
Thanks so much for the compliment on my WICKED EDDIES mystery novel, but I just wanted to let you know that my last name is Groundwater, not Goodfellow. ;-)

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Jun 30, 2012 03:28PM

Wicked Eddies Beth Goodfellow

First read of series. Impressed by author's knowledge of location and subject matter (my fisher husband commented "authentic/great") Enjoyed author's dialogue and the way she set up scenes.

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