A Neighborly Day by Liz Flaherty

Good morning. It's sunshiny and breezy here in the middle of the Indiana cornfields. Mr. Rogers' song about the beautiful day in the neighborhood always trots through the side yard to greet me when I sit down at my desk beside the west window. The title of this post comes from the lyrics of that song, too, although I never gave them much thought before. 

As I said the other day when I talked about Patches of Red, I'm Liz Flaherty, the new kid at Sweet Romance Reads. I've written romance for a very long time. My books now lean hard into being women's fiction, but the truth is there's always a love story in there, too. A romantic one, I mean, and other kinds of love, too. The family, friends, memories, joys kinds.

I'm also a shameless blogger. Not just on my own blog, Window Over the Sink, but on Substack and anywhere I am invited. Or, I must admit, anywhere I invite myself. I think I'm a good guest, although I do go on sometimes, but I seldom leave a mess and if the host rolls her eyes about the going on part, she does it when her back is to me.

There is a reason for my love for blogging and for reading blogs. While I understand that the internet is huge and social media is ... well ... whatever it is, these days, I think of blogs as a big neighborhood. It's not a crowded, unruly one anymore, but you can always find a laugh on someone's blog, or information, or someone whose heartbeat is keeping the same time as yours. 

You can find a Bible study on a blog, someone whose health challenges mirror yours, a blog where the family dysfunction being discussed is one your family has. You can follow your favorite author if she blogs--or he does, journalists who help you to understand the news, quilters, musicians, pastors. And ... oh, thank goodness ... there are grammar blogs who show writers just how far we can bend the rules before they snap back and leave a bruise. 

All in all, pretty much like a neighborhood.

Besides being a women's fiction writer and a blog devotee, I've been married to Duane for 55 years. We have three kids, three more kids whom they married, and grandkids we call--with absolutely no bias, mind you--the Magnificent Seven. 

My latest two books are Books 1 and 2 of Colors, the Harper Loch Trilogy. While they both stand alone, I think they read better in order; therefore Pieces of Blue is 99 cents at the present time. It is my great hope that you'll love it and will read Patches of Red next. The main characters in the stories are friends of long standing, strong women both, whose lives are having a major overhaul in their 50s. Personally, I think they rock. 

Amazon: https://a.co/d/09fZR7nt 

D2D: https://books2read.com/u/mZ98YJ

Thanks for reading. I'd love to hear from you. Wishing you a neighborly day.