Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

  The Fog Ladies: In the Soup (A San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery) by Susan McCormick About The Fog Ladies: In the Soup   The Fog Ladies: In the Soup (A San Francisco Cozy Murder Mystery)   Cozy Mystery 3rd in Series   Setting — San Francisco Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wild Rose Press (October 4, 2021) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 328 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1509237984 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1509237982 Digital Print Length ‏ : ‎ 230 pages ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09C91H76Z The Fog Ladies are back, in the third installment of this endearing cozy murder mystery series. "There was a man in the soup." When the Fog Ladies volunteer at a San Francisco soup kitchen, these spunky elderly friends plus one overworked young doctor-in-training envision washing and chopping and serving. Not murder. Now the soup kitchen is doomed, and the mysteries have just begun. Was the death rooted in a long-ago grudge? Can they save the soup kitchen? Will they find the killer? Could the Fog Ladies, too, end up "in the soup"?   My Revi

Thanks to getting home fairly late on Wednesday and having a lot to do, I decided to make my Friday post a Saturday post this week. Then it slipped, so now it's a Sunday post. I like to keep my readers on their toes! I spent August in the Sierra with my brother- and sister-in-law. I've shared the training hikes we did; this was the first of two backpacks, a 3-night trip up Pine Creek to Granite Park, with a dayhike to Pine Creek Pass. I'll let the photos mostly tell the tale. A crack of dawn start let us climb up out of the smoke before it was hot, anyway. A couple of hours took us to the "real" mountain setting along Pine Creek. Upper Pine Lake Honeymoon Lake Camp #1 Honeymoon Lake Day 2 saw us completing the climb to Granite Park, a day with short mileage but more big climbing. Granite Park camp. Later I had to move from this spot, as it was too exposed to the winds that howled through with 30-40 mph gusts. A persistent neighbor The crack of dawn, smoke-colored

  The IWSG is a fantastic group of writers and bloggers who share posts the first Wednesday of each  month. Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds! Let’s rock the neurotic writing world! The awesome co-hosts for the September 1 posting of the IWSG are:   Jemima Pett, J Lenni Dorner, Cathrina Constantine, Ronel Janse van Vuuren, and Mary Aalgaard!   Every month, we announce a question that members can answer in their IWSG post. These questions may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Include your answer to the question in your IWSG post or let it inspire your post if you are struggling with something to say.  Remember, the question is optional!    October 6 question - In your writing, where do you draw the line, with either topics or la

Many thanks to KL Caley for running the weekly #WritePhoto challenge ! How it works:  Each Thursday KL Caley posts a photo, and participants post their response by the following Tuesday.  There is no word limit and no style requirements, except that your post must take inspiration from the image and/or the prompt word given in the title of the post.  If you participate, link back to the WritePhoto page at new2writing.com  *** Since I've been a little busy and distracted, my entry today is a haiku. Innundation Green man preserve us! Streams long lost to open air Breaking through the wall?   Your turn next!  ©Rebecca M. Douglass, 2021  As always, please ask permission to use any photos or text. Link-backs appreciated. Enjoyed this post? Avoid missing out on future posts by  following us .

We are due for another photo extravaganza with pictures from the last two training hikes we did in the Eastern Sierra before shouldering our backpacks for a couple of trip, which will get their own reports. At Big Pine Creek (not to be confused with Pine Creek, of course!) we opted for the road less taken, skipped the Palisades and Pine Lakes, and went for Brainerd Lake. That proved to be a good choice, both scenically and for our training, given the sort of climb involved! As with all these hikes, we tried to start as close to first adequate light as possible, to beat the heat and--in this case--the afternoon thunderstorms. Those storms should have been an issue on many more days, but the summer monsoon really failed this year. We managed to cover maybe 2 1/2 miles and a third of the climb before the sun caught us. Deep in the shade of the cliff, where the sun doesn't burn them out of existence, we found a number of beautiful pink and yellow columbines. Topping out that first long

I've been doing a lot of wandering, and not much writing. The usual problems maintain: both the time and energy shortage while traveling and the struggle to do anything while the latest MS is steeping. In the last couple of weeks I've traveled some 2300 miles in the car (sharing driving with Second Son) and done a number of great hikes. Spent one weekend with friends around the campfire and another with my family/Mom. So I'm not really beating myself up that all I've done as a writer is maintain my travel notes and write a few paragraphs of world-building for the short story I'm working on. But I am getting itchy to work again, before I head off to Nepal (!) and cease to be a writer or a blogger for a while month! So even though I won't be home for another week, I'm trying to get back onto a proper work schedule. Before that happens, I would really like to finish the story--and the blog transformation! Watch this space, because there should be a shift to my

My fellow IWSG writer (not to mention long-time beta-read partner) has a new collection of flash fiction on presale! It's a fantastic collection of winter/holiday themed stories, with appearances from old favorites of her blog followers, Carruthers the unfortunate "archaeologist" and the time-traveling Sir Woebegone.  I have read and enjoyed all the tales, and can recommend the book!     The Pre-Sale is only available at Smashwords, here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/presale/1089604 . It ends on 7th October, when the book goes live everywhere else. If you just want to pre-order it, you can find it at all these other places. Buy Snowflakes and Shivers ebook: Amazon ~~~ Apple iBooks ~~~ B&N (Nook) ~~~ Kobo ~~~ Scribd ~~~ Smashwords  

  I'm off again, visiting family & friends, and enjoying a few days in Utah's canyon country. Regular (irregular) posts will resume in a week or so.

Title: All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation Author: Rebecca Traister Publication Info: 2016, Simon and Schuster Audio. 11.5 hours. Hardcover, 2016, Simon and Schuster, 339 pages. Source: Library digital services   Publisher’s Blurb: In 2009, award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister started All the Single Ladies about the twenty-first century phenomenon of the American single woman. It was the year the proportion of American women who were married dropped below fifty percent; and the median age of first marriages, which had remained between twenty and twenty-two years old for nearly a century (1890–1980), had risen dramatically to twenty-seven. But over the course of her vast research and more than a hundred interviews with academics and social scientists and prominent single women, Traister discovered a startling truth: The phenomenon of the single woman in America is not a new one. And historically, when women were given options beyon