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How Well Do You Know Your Sister with Joshilyn Jackson?

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Almost Sisters is the most recent novel by Joshilyn Jackson.   She is a local author in the Atlanta area.   I often go and visit the local authors.   I saw Joshilyn Jackson with Patti Callahan Henry at a local library.   She discussed her work with prisoners in one of the local prisons where she teaches creative writing.   Facebook    Twitter      “Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs’ weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic novelist is swept off her barstool by a handsome and anonymous Batman. It turns out the caped crusader has left her with more than just a nice, fuzzy memory. She’s having a baby boy—an unexpected but not unhappy development in the thirty-eight year-old’s life. But before Leia can break the news of her impending single-motherhood (including the fact that her baby is biracial) to her conventional, Southern family, her step-sister Rachel’s marriage implodes. Worse, she learns her beloved nine

What Is the Next Chapter for Ten Beach Road Ladies?

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I hope that everyone had an enjoyable Christmas holiday!   Today we are once again turning to the beach.   It is time to get your tool belt out and help the ladies of Ten Beach road renovate another house.   This time the location is South Beach, Florida in Wendy Wax’s Ocean Beach .   Anyone say road trip? Facebook   Twitter   Instagram “When unlikely friends Madeline, Avery, and Nicole arrive in Miami’s South Beach neighborhood, they’re hoping for a do-over. Literally. They’ve been hired to bring a historic house back to its former glory on a new television show called  Do Over . If they can just get this show off the ground, Nikki could fix her finances, Avery could restart her career, and Maddie would have a shot at keeping her family together.   The women quickly realize that having their work broadcast is one thing, but having their personal lives play out on TV is another. Soon they’re struggling to hold themselves, and the project, together. With a decades-old mys