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Novelist Sandra Hall

May 01st, 2019

5/1/2019

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Blog Talk Radio Shows

4/30/2019

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Do some interviews they said. It will be fun they said. So, I did some interviews. I think they speak for themselves- literally. See what I did there? Ha ha! Anyway, this host is the best. But I was still nervous as a virgin at a prison rodeo. 
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Almost Six Years and Going Strong!

5/13/2017

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So, it has been a while since I last sat down in here. I made a new video showing off my books. Fourteen of these bad babies!  I'm off for the summer and I intend to get a lot done. Right now I am trying to finish up IN HIS EYES.
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What's Been Going On?

1/26/2017

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​It's been a long time since I was here. More than a year. Gosh! Oh well. Anyway I published another novella. In Too Deep was my attempt at penning an epic street lit drama. As always, however, it turned into a love story- with very little street action.
More than writing over the past year or so I've been designing upcoming book covers namely for the Fairlight Novels and The Outlaw Series, also I am currently working on covers for a few contemporary works in progress, I am not a graphic designer, yet I think my covers are attractive and work quite well with my stories.
By Spring my goal is to publish two more novellas and this summer I hope to publish part three of the Outlaw Series as well as part two of Scarlett. It's a lot to do and quite a challenge. Wish me luck!
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About To Finish Up Something Good

11/17/2015

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Wow. Looks like I haven't posted anything since way back in June! Wow. I guess it's official, I am not a blogger. I'm a writer who has nothing much to talk about.  Tonight however, I have a little something to share. I just completed a full length novel which I started out writing as a novelette. It sort of got out of hand and I  sort of regained control by letting the muse roll free. I guess, as an independent writer that is the way to go.
     This novel was supposed to be an interracial love story. The couple is interracial but I don't think it follows the normal formula for the genre. It's just a love story about a young Black woman with certain issues with food and sex, who happens to let a young Caucasian male get all under her skin and manage to open up her world to include romance and love. I think it is both sexy and sweet. Just like Dalton. Jolene had a bit of adjusting to do but she grew on me, and Dalton just had to love her as much as I did. I hope to have it polished up and ready to go before Christmas. It's a good story so if you should read it and like it (or if you don't like it) leave a review or contact me via my Contact Page and let me know what you think. You won't hurt my feelings if you are honest and respectful.
     Yesterday, I worked on the e book cover,wanting to do something a little bit different. Somehow I just wasn't satisfied with anything much with the fonts and texts, so I got on Facebook and had my friends comment on what they liked or didn't like about the different mocks I put together. Bless my Facebook friends, they always come through for me. I'm no graphic designer but I do enjoy making my own book covers and book trailers. I'm not feeling doing a trailer for Just Like My Coffee at this time. Don't know why not, maybe later.
      Anyway, I'm all excited. After it is released, I hope you check it out.
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A Memory Of June

6/7/2015

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When June comes dancing o'er the death of May,
With scarlet roses tinting her green breast,
And mating thrushes ushering in her day,
And Earth on tiptoe for her golden guest,
I always see the evening when we met--
The first of June baptized in tender rain--
And walked home through the wide streets, gleaming wet,
Arms locked, our warm flesh pulsing with love's pain.
I always see the cheerful little room,
And in the corner, fresh and white, the bed,
Sweet scented with a delicate perfume,
Wherein for one night only we were wed;
Where in the starlit stillness we lay mute,
And heard the whispering showers all night long,
And your brown burning body was a lute
Whereon my passion played his fevered song.
When June comes dancing o'er the death of May,
With scarlet roses staining her fair feet,
My soul takes leave of me to sing all day
A love so fugitive and so complete.


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                                            Claude McKay 


When You Have Forgotten Sunday

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—And when you have forgotten the bright bedclothes on a Wednesday and a Saturday,
And most especially when you have forgotten Sunday--
When you have forgotten Sunday halves in bed,
Or me sitting on the front-room radiator in the limping afternoon
Looking off down the long street
To nowhere,
Hugged by my plain old wrapper of no-expectation
And nothing-I-have-to-do and I’m-happy-why?
And if-Monday-never-had-to-come--









When you have forgotten that, I say,
And how you swore, if somebody beeped the bell,
And how my heart played hopscotch if the telephone rang;
And how we finally went in to Sunday dinner,
That is to say, went across the front room floor to the
​ink-spotted table in the southwest corner
To Sunday dinner, which was always chicken and noodles
Or chicken and rice
And salad and rye bread and tea
And chocolate chip cookies--
I say, when you have forgotten that,
When you have forgotten my little presentiment
That the war would be over before they got to you;
And how we finally undressed and whipped out the light and flowed into bed,
And lay loose-limbed for a moment in the week-end
Bright bedclothes,
Then gently folded into each other--
When you have, I say, forgotten all that,
Then you may tell,
Then I may believe
You have forgotten me well.


Gwendolyn Brooks

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April Rain

4/20/2015

 
Some people can't stand the rain. Can't really say I love it, but there are moments when it sets a peaceful, relaxing mood. So I can't say it don't like it either. I do love sleeping in during mild rainstorms, and then later getting in some reading. I hate driving in the rain though. It's a love/hate relationship I guess.  It's raining right now and will be in the morning, and probably in the evening when I get off work. 
It's April, the rainy season, which made me think of a book I read a couple of years ago by an author I met on Facebook. Also of a song that I haven't listened to in years by Peabo Bryson. I thought I'd feature them here. Oprah shares her favorite things, why can't I? Check them out and see if you don't like them as much as I do.
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A collection of short stories about life events and life choices and the consequences that follow. While we can't always control the things that happen to us in life, we can control how we deal with them. Our experiences can either make us or break us. Meet some of the unforgettable characters in this collection of short stories.
Tamyla Bradford has a history of attracting losers. Will she break the pattern and find a winner in Transitions?
Lonnie Parker, player extraordinaire, didn't plan it, but he just got Caught! Can he live with the consequences?
Some might say that Arlise is Three Cards Short of a Deck. But she wants the world to know that she's not the monster the news reporters are portraying her to be.
Ever think about what your life could have been? In Reflections--In Memoriam that's just what the doctor orders.

Update For My Heart Always Knew

1/22/2015

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So- sells are pretty good for this novella so far. I've just put it out in paperback at the Createspace bookstore. Also I made the trailer to go with it. I am so amazed that this book is my  bestseller! Anyway, go ahead and check out the trailer on my contemporary page.
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How Do You Like Your Romance?

12/30/2014

 
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I have to admit I like age appropriate love. I mean adult to adult, or adolescence with adolescence. Some might say Jane Eyre and Mister Rochester were inappropriate because she was eighteen and he was already over forty. If my memory serves me. Anyway, I always felt they were both adults so I went with it and loved it. I've watched just about every version of the movie. Such a wonderful love story with tragedy thrown in.
Anyway, I wanted to write a modern, beautifully, tragic May December romance that is sensual and sexy and full of honest emotion.
I think I accomplished that with  my novelette Just To See Him Again.  I fell in love, laughed and cried along with this magical couple. I hope my readers feel the same. I mean, I loved this story!
_http://www.amazon.com/Just-See-Again-Sandra-Hall-ebook/dp/B00RNX9GMK

December 18th, 2014

12/18/2014

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A Gift From The Muses?

Actually, I was writing Scarlett under the working title Oh Moon! Yeah, that's how I wrote it, with an exclamation point. I was thinking about a poem I read in my high school English Lit class. It was sappy of course, but I always liked the title for some reason. And except for the title, I don't recall anything else about the poem, not even the author. Anyway, I thought Oh Moon! would be a good title for my second paranormal novel, which sort of sprang forth from Fairlight. I was loving writing about kick ass witches then thought I should tone it down with another witchy creation. Anyway, while I was writing Oh Moon! I was thinking about another story and started on Fine Lines, an adult contemporary novel. My sister told me the two female leads had almost the same backgrounds with their husbands, and she was correct. No wonder the writing was so easy.
I stopped writing Oh Moon! as a novel and wrapped it up as a novelette. Which kind of became an outline(or something) for my paranormal novel, Scarlett and  the adult contemporary, Fine Lines. I re- named Oh Moon! to Magic Moons and hesitated to publish it, on account of I was afraid someone might read it and say, it was a hybrid of Scarlett and Fine Lines and claim I'm lazy or some other stuff that isn't true. When actually, Scarlett and Fine Lines were born from Oh Moon! which I re-named to Magic Moons. I am about to submit it to amazon tonight and by morning it will go live. I'm hoping it is received well for what it is. I love it. Here's the cover I made for it.


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    Sandra Hall

    An independent novelist who lives and writes in her southeast Missouri hometown. She dabbles in historical westerns, paranormal, and adult contemporary love stories.

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