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Summer Soiree -- cover reveal

4/25/2016

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My friend, author Stephanie L. Stacker, will shortly be publishing her new novel, Summer Soiree. 

And I am proud to be able to reveal here the superb cover for it. 
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So what is Summer Soiree all about?

Junior year has come to a close, and Taylor Brighton is excited about being a Senior. She decides to keep a diary in order to document the events of her upcoming Senior year.


On the first day of summer break, when she writes her first entry, she has no way of knowing the events that would unfold…events that she may not want to remember.

An annual end-of-the-year party, true friends, and a blast from her past will leave this soon-to-be-senior with a summer to remember.
Tell me, Stephanie, how did such a superb cover come about?

"When I began writing Summer Soiree, I knew I wanted a masquerade type mask on the cover in some fashion. I searched stock photos for hours and found several pics, however, none of them were quite what I was looking for. I was tired of looking at the same photos over and over, and I finally decided to use a different stock site, and I found the pic I wanted. Within a matter of minutes, I had purchased the photo, and within an hour, I had a new cover!

​"Ideas for stories usually hit me at the strangest of times. I'll start the story, but I won't be able to finish until the idea for a cover forms and I actually have it in front of me. To me, if I have the cover first, it feels real. I know, at that point, I have something to work toward, and it gives me the motivation I need to finish whatever I'm working on at the moment."
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S.L. Stacker, biography:

S.L. Stacker is an author with Booktrope publishing. She has written and published three Romantic Suspense books in the Macyn McIntyre series. Her current projects include several fiction novels, but her focus is the Sisters of Summit Bay series—to be published in 2016/2017.

When not writing, she can be found relaxing and hanging with her husband, children, and dogs. You can visit her at http://www.slstacker.com
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My Memories Of Margaret Thatcher - And Her Memories Of Me

4/7/2016

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I first met Margaret Thatcher in 1970 when I was 14. Or was it 1971 when I was 15? I can’t remember.

Some people say they have photographic memories. I do…but there’s no film in the camera  (at least I can remember back to the days of putting rolls of 35mm film into a camera).

But the reason I mention Margaret Thatcher is because she did have a truly remarkable memory until she was tragically struck down by a series of strokes.

When I met her in 1970 – or was it 1971? – she was Secretary of Education and Science, and was a panellist on the BBC Radio programme “Any Questions.”

My Mother had been invited to ask a question and took me along. 
After the show I met Mrs Thatcher (as she was then – I haven’t forgotten she later became Baroness Thatcher) and we had quite a long chat about her early career in the law – as in those days I was torn between the law and broadcasting as a profession.

The next time I met Mrs Thatcher was in 1979 (or was it 1980?) when she was Prime Minister and I was interviewing her on BBC Radio. After the broadcast finished I mentioned that we’d met several years before when she was on “Any Questions,” and we’d spoken afterwards when I was 14 (oh, all right, I may have been 15).

​She immediately recalled that night, saying how much she’d enjoyed it, especially sparring with Labour politician Lord George Brown, and simply sharing the platform with composer and television presenter Steve Race.

OK, maybe you’d expect her to remember that. But what I wasn’t prepared for was how she instantly recalled our conversation, saying that I was “the lad who asked her about the law” remembering that she had advised me on possible career paths within it. Astonishing.
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Oh, by the way, I’ve still got a photographic memory in this digital age, but either the memory card’s full or the battery’s dead – I can’t remember which. 
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