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Elaine Orr
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in Washington, DC, The United States
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Harper Lee, Margaret Maron, and Anne Tyler. For learning, Ghandi. For
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October 2011
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From Newsprint to Footprints: First River's Edge Cozy Mystery (River's Edge Mystery Series Book 1)
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Appraisal for Murder (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #1)
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2011
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14 editions
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Behind the Walls (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #6)
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2013
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9 editions
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Vague Images (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #7)
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2014
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Rekindling Motives (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #2)
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2011
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8 editions
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When the Carny Comes to Town (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #3)
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2012
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8 editions
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Any Port in a Storm (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #4)
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2012
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Trouble on the Doorstep (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #5)
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2013
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10 editions
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Ground to a Halt (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #8)
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2014
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10 editions
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Ocean Alley Adventures (A Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery, #1-3)
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2013
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Procrastinating My Way into Blog Posts
By Elaine L. Orr
The first full year I had this blog I had 50 entries, though many are what we would today think of as social media posts rather than blogs entries. I went way down a few years later and finally settled on doing three per month. I don't usually get to 36, but I get close. February of this year (after a compression fracture) was the first zero month in years.
As with many things in my
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| We hear about the war in Western Europe but we don't often what went on in countries such as Lithuania. The family the Russians were overseers and It initially looked like the Germans who came in the early 1940s would be better. Not to be. They ended ...more | |
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“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr”
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“That you Jolie?" "You better hope so," I called back. Harry is one of the few people who always remembers to pronounce my name correctly. My French-Canadian father chose the name Jolie and insists I retain its French pronunciation, so the J is soft and it ends in an “ee” sound. That would not be so bad, but our last name is Gentil, soft G, silent L and the “i” is also pronounced like an “ee.” Zho-lee Zhan-tee translates to "pretty nice" in English.”
― Jolie Gentil Translates to Trouble
― Jolie Gentil Translates to Trouble
“I bent over to read Harry's computer screen. "Jeez, Harry. The house on Fairweather is $199,000 easy. Are you sure you didn't miss a couple rooms? I might have to go back to the Jennifer dame." Though the text was minus his cigar smoke and speech patterns, it was pure Lester.”
― Jolie Gentil Translates to Trouble
― Jolie Gentil Translates to Trouble
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“An idea is a gift, a finished project is turning that gift into a book by making yourself write even when you don't want to. There is no such thing as a block of time to write. You have to carve time from a busy day. Elaine L. Orr”
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