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Cloudy Rainbow - Book Tour and Giveaway

9/3/2018

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Cloudy Rainbow
by Debbie De Louise
Genre: Paranormal Romance

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This revised edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the author’s first published novel.
When you lose a loved one, whether it’s a relative, friend, or precious pet, you wonder where that special soul has gone and if you will ever see him or her again. For Dulcie Mills, Long Island computer programmer, the answer may lie between a virtual world and the real one, between the past and the present, between dreams and reality.
Unable to get over her fiancee’s death and facing the impending loss of her 15-year-old cat, Dulcie escapes to a virtual world. When Dulcie’s best friend accepts a job from a clairvoyant who offers predictions regarding Dulcie’s dead fiancée and Dulcie becomes attracted to an online stranger, history begins to repeat itself in ways that are both promising and terrifying. What Dulcie discovers through a virtual séance may mean the only chance she has left for love or death itself.
Addressing topics of reincarnation and soul transfer in similar ways as Greg Iles’ Sleep No More and Nora Roberts’ Midnight Bayou, Cloudy Rainbow features an interesting mix of technology and the paranormal and will also appeal to cat lovers. 


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​Dulcie glanced to her left at the gray and white cat sitting next to her keyboard. Floppy, her fifteen-year-old male shorthair, purred as she paused in her typing to pat his head.
“I don’t mean to ignore you, big boy,” she murmured. “Visiting a virtual world isn’t as compelling as
spending real time with you.”
She hit the ESC key from the online game she’d been playing to pass the time and shut down her laptop. She glanced around the tiny kitchen she used as an office.
Tonight, would be especially hard. Thank goodness for Floppy’s company. October 9th, three years ago. She looked at her kitchen clock, which featured her name encircled by yellow roses that matched her wallpaper. It was an apartment warming gift from her friend Valerie. She was lucky she’d been able to bring Floppy to her new home. She couldn’t stay at Frank’s place. Too many memories, clouded now but like light through a rainbow.
They would’ve been married two years this past summer, if a tragic accident hadn’t torn them apart.
Tears spilled down her cheeks. She wiped at them with the same hand that had petted the cat. He put out his paw gently as if responding to her sadness. The whitebooted foot gently touched her elbow. She gazed into his yellow eyes and wondered if he remembered Frank, was just responding to her feelings (cats were intuitive that way) or was just asking for more attention or his supper.
She couldn’t sit here anymore, so she got up and went to the pantry to take out a can of cat food. As she opened the chunky chicken feast with a pull of its flip-top lid, Floppy jumped off the table and bounded toward her as fast as his old body could carry him. She was worried about his slower movements, and the aging that was becoming more apparent recently. Although more indoor cats were living to twenty or older, a cat over eight was considered a senior.
Dulcie had studied the cat age charts on the Internet and in her feline health books and knew that Floppy would now be well into his seventies in human years. It seemed such a short time ago that she had first adopted him and held him in her hands. Her roommate had found the stray kitten near her dormitory at college. Many changes had happened in her life since then. She’d studied journalism in college, secretly hoping to make a career out of being a reporter, to live the glamorous yet poor life of Lois Lane without a Superman. Then Frank came along, and she switched from writing articles to writing computer programs to be near him in the computer science classes he taught as a junior professor.
Floppy’s plaintive meow brought her back to the present, and she remembered that she still hadn’t scooped cat food into his food bowl. “Sorry, fellow,” she
apologized. “Mom was just daydreaming, or nightdreaming since it’s almost time for bed.”
She watched him lap up the food and then cleaned and filled his water bowl. She knew she was just putting off getting into bed tonight. In the last few months, she’d traded watching late night television for playing a computer game called Virtual Universe. As fans of this game were eager to point out, it wasn’t a game but a virtual world where people via the Internet highway were able to communicate under different names and even create characters that represented themselves. Was this unlike the
pen names that some authors used or the characters that they wrote about in their books? But these computer images--avatars-- had identities and even interacted in this virtual space. She’d once gone dancing using a computer animation with a guy who called himself Nero.
She’d immediately thought of the Roman emperor. But to give the guy credit, he didn’t have any tattoos and hadn’t built up his biceps in any virtual gym. He was ordinary looking, if computer images could be labeled ordinary. She ran into him occasionally when she logged on, and they’d chat for a bit. But neither knew much about the other, and she wasn’t about to indulge in any online relationship. For
all she knew, Nero could be a woman or a married man.
“I think I’ll just stick with you, Flops,” she said, bending down to give her cat a pat as he finished his meal.
She took a last glance at her laptop, stifled a yawn, and headed across the room to her daybed which doubled as a sofa. Valerie often berated her about why she’d chosen such a small apartment. It wasn’t a matter of cost. She didn’t need much. It was only her and Floppy. The converted garage apartment she’d had years ago before Frank came back into her life was taken now, so she had to find something else. Fresh starts in new places were always best after life-changing events.
She pulled open the bed and then went into the bathroom to brush her teeth and change into her cat decorated nightshirt. When she finished, she turned off all the lights but the reading lamp, got under her quilt that was also cat patterned, and opened the Nora Roberts book she was in the middle of reading. Before she could start another page, Floppy was there, treading gently up to her pillow.
She lay the book down and cuddled with him. It was relaxing to stroke his soft fur and listen to his purrs. While it wasn’t the best substitute for a lover, it was easier and less stressful in many ways.


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My name is Debbie De Louise. I am a reference librarian at a public library on Long Island and the award-winning author of the Cobble Cove mystery series. I have a B.A. in English and an MLS in Library Science. 

My first novel, a paranormal romance, "Cloudy Rainbow" (Booklocker 2008) received an honorable mention in the Writer's Digest self-published awards. I wrote that book after my beloved cat, Floppy, died from diabetic and liver complications. The book is dedicated to him, and he is featured as a character in it.

My second novel, the first book of the Cobble Cove Mystery series, "A Stone's Throw," (November 2015) was published by Limitless Publishing, LLC. It is the story of a widowed librarian who visits her husband's hometown and finds a new love with the town's newspaper publisher but also discovers some alarming truths about her husband's death and its connection to the publisher and his family. Along with a variety of characters, there is also a cat and dog who play minor but interesting roles in the novel. The second Cobble Cove Mystery, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" was released in October 2016 by Solstice Publishing and a reprint of "A Stone's Throw" with an additional chapter was published in March, 2017. The third book of the series, "Written in Stone," was released in April, 2017. I've also published a romantic comedy novella, "When Jack Trumps Ace."

I'm currently working on a standalone mystery, Reason to Die, and have several other writing projects planned for 2018 including a new cozy mystery series along with the fourth volume of the Cobble Cove mysteries.

I'm a member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters-in-Crime, the Cat Writer's Association, and Long Island Authors Group and have published articles in Cats Magazine and Catnip (Tufts University Veterinary Newsletter). I won the Glamour Puss special award from Hartz Corporation for my Catster.com article, "Brushing your cat for bonding, beauty, and better health," (June, 2016). My short mystery, "Stitches in Time" was published in the Cat Crimes Through Time Anthology, (1999). I have also published several other short stories of various genres in Solstice anthologies. I live on Long Island with my husband, daughter, and our cat, Stripey.



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88 Comments
James Robert
9/3/2018 05:38:55 am

Congrats on the tour and thank you for the opportunity to read about another great book. With so many readers in my family, always great to hear about more choices I think they'd enjoy reading.Having a family who loves to read, I always

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Debbie De Louise link
9/26/2018 05:42:04 pm

Thank you, Robert. Hope you will share my book info with your relatives. As a librarian, reading has always been important to me, too.

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Calvin
9/3/2018 11:45:15 am

Sounds oddly cheerful. Makes you wonder. Very cool

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wendy hutton
9/3/2018 01:37:26 pm

congrats on the tour the excerpt sounds great

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Debbie De Louise link
9/26/2018 05:42:58 pm

Thank you, Wendy.

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Debbie P
9/3/2018 03:38:02 pm

This sounds great. I love stories that have anything to do with the paranormal.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/26/2018 05:47:02 pm

Thanks, Debbie. I've always enjoyed those types of tales, too, and also ones like the Twilight Zone.

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Sherry
9/3/2018 07:23:46 pm

Sounds like a very good book.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/26/2018 05:50:04 pm

Thanks, Sherry. I hope you will consider reading it.

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Kelly D
9/3/2018 07:38:18 pm

I like the book cover, it is pretty.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/26/2018 05:51:05 pm

Thank you, Kelly. I actually had the cover redone by my publisher, but I chose the image. It was the fonts that I asked them to change.

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Rita Wray
9/4/2018 01:31:03 pm

Sounds like a good read.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 06:56:06 am

Thanks, Rita. I hope you'll check it out.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:32:47 am

Thanks, Rita. I hope you will consider it.

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Mood Reader
9/4/2018 05:07:25 pm

Nice cover. Thanks for the excerpt ! :)

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:33:26 am

Thank you.

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Corey Hutton
9/4/2018 10:17:01 pm

Good luck with the book and Thanks for the giveaway.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 07:49:51 am

Thank you, Corey.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:34:00 am

Thanks so much, and good luck!

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Dale Wilken
9/4/2018 11:38:09 pm

Sounds really great.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 07:50:40 am

Thanks, Dale. I hope you will add it to your to be read list.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:34:35 am

Thanks, Dale. I hope you will check it out.

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Leonie Townsend
9/5/2018 02:21:55 am

Looks good.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 07:53:13 am

Thanks, Leonie.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:35:08 am

Thank you, Leoni.

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Kelly Braun
9/5/2018 10:10:44 am

This book sounds really good... And I really like the cover! Debbie De Louise is a fantastic author and I'm looking forward to this book!
Cheers~
Kelly Braun

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 07:54:06 am

Thank you so much, Kelly. I hope you enjoy it.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:36:22 am

Thanks so much for your support, Kelly.

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jan
9/5/2018 11:07:03 am

such a fluffly, light cover for a serious topic

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 07:55:43 am

Hi, Jan, The cover is meant to be hopeful, the rainbow symbolizing Rainbow Bridge and the "cloudy rainbow" mentioned in the book. You'll understand if you read the story. I hope you will.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 03:14:13 pm

Thanks, Angela. I hope you'll try this one and my Cobble Cove mystery series as well as my standalone mystery, Reason to Die. They're all available on Amazon, and the paperbacks are on other sites, as well.

Debbie De Louise link
9/29/2018 10:37:13 am

The rainbow signifies Rainbow Bridge and the "Cloudy Rainbow" in the story. You'll understand when you read it. Thanks for your comment.

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Angela Saver
9/6/2018 08:54:52 pm

I enjoyed learning about the author and look forward to getting started on her books.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 04:05:06 pm

Thanks, Angela. I hope you will check this one out as well as my Cobble Cove cozy mystery series and my standalone mystery, Reason to Die. I also write short stories.

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Denise Higgins
9/6/2018 11:18:07 pm

Love the cover

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 03:15:09 pm

Thanks, Denise

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 04:11:00 pm

Glad you like it, Denise. Thank you.

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Amy F
9/7/2018 08:20:05 pm

Pretty cover!

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 03:15:35 pm

Thank you, Amy.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 04:11:33 pm

Thanks, Amy.

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Wendy Jensen
9/9/2018 10:07:40 am

I love the rainbow on the book cover.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 03:16:17 pm

Thanks, Wendy. It symbolizes Rainbow Bridge and the "Cloudy Rainbow" in the story.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 04:12:18 pm

Thanks, Wendy. It symbolizes Rainbow Bridge and the "cloudy rainbow" in the book.

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Marilyn
9/10/2018 05:19:59 pm

The cover is exciting and inviting.
Marilyn

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 03:16:53 pm

Thank you, Marilyn. Glad you like it.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 04:12:55 pm

Thanks so much, Marilyn. Glad you like it.

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Elizabeth Robinson
9/11/2018 07:35:02 pm

Love the cover. Thanks for the giveaway.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/3/2018 05:52:08 pm

Thanks, Elizabeth. Good luck!

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Denise
9/13/2018 09:54:47 pm

Congratulation on your book tour. I'm putting the book in my THE list.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/3/2018 05:53:12 pm

Thanks, Denise. Is a THE like a TBR list? Thanks for considering my book. I think you'll enjoy it.

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Christi Flores
9/14/2018 01:12:18 am

Beautiful cover and interesting premise

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Debbie De Louise link
10/3/2018 05:53:46 pm

Thanks, Christi.

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Linda Fast
9/15/2018 04:20:44 pm

The cover is beautiful. Rainbows are a sign of "promise" which makes the sky so beautiful.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/3/2018 05:54:40 pm

Yes, that's exactly how it's used in my book, Linda. Thank you.

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Sandra Watts link
9/16/2018 01:46:34 pm

Nice cover. Sounds good.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/3/2018 05:55:25 pm

Thanks, Sandra. I hope you will read it.

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heather
9/19/2018 08:47:09 pm

This sounds like one that will keep me interested.

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Bea LaRocca
9/20/2018 10:51:04 am

Pretty cover and an intriguing synopsis and excerpt. This sounds like a great read.

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Ann Fantom
9/23/2018 09:26:09 am

I love this cover. Beautiful!

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Paula
9/25/2018 03:36:34 pm

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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al
9/26/2018 12:02:41 am

Could be fun.

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Daniel M
9/27/2018 07:25:25 pm

sounds like a fun one

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lynn clayton
9/28/2018 12:52:55 am

this looks like a great read

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Debbie De Louise link
9/28/2018 06:56:53 am

Thanks, Lynn. I think you'll enjoy it.

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Heather
9/28/2018 03:56:15 pm

The cover is simple but soothing to look at.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 07:15:07 pm

Thanks, Heather.

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jason jennings, Sr.
9/29/2018 07:19:34 pm

love it

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 07:15:37 pm

Thanks so much, Jason.

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Lisa Canada
9/29/2018 08:53:09 pm

We are a cat loving family. My daughter's cat is her unofficial emotional support animal. I'm sure Floppy is enjoying Kitty Heaven with our boy Tigger.

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Debbie De Louise link
9/30/2018 07:22:33 pm

That's wonderful, Lisa, and I'm sure you're right about Floppy and Tigger having a great time in Kitty Heaven. If you haven't read my short fantasy story, The Path to Rainbow Bridge, I think you would enjoy it because it describes what happens to cats after they die but is hopeful and not sad. Floppy's in that one, too, as well as my Oliver who joined him a year ago this November.

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sandra
10/1/2018 09:00:49 am

i like the rainbow on the cover, but it is a bit plain

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Kara Marks
10/1/2018 09:01:30 am

This sounds great--congratulations, Debbie!

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Cheryl Arcemont
10/1/2018 09:57:05 am

Congratulations - great cover! Thanks for the chance to read another great book!

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Sally Hill
10/1/2018 09:58:59 am

Wow this sounds like a really interesting storyline! Best of luck with it!

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Joye I
10/1/2018 01:44:49 pm

This book sounds like the kind of book I enjoy reading. I like the colorful cover

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Renee Collins
10/1/2018 02:37:26 pm

I love your books!

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:30:45 pm

Thank you very much, Renee. My fans give me motivation to keep writing.

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Michelle F.
10/2/2018 01:48:03 pm

I think I'd enjoy the book. Stripey must be a tabby.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:24:08 pm

I hope you'll check it out, Michelle, and, yes, Stripey is a tabby.

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Bridgett Wilbur
10/2/2018 02:49:07 pm

I just love your cover and I would love to read your book.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:23:28 pm

I hope you will, Bridgett. Thank you.

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Jessica Whitehouse
10/3/2018 04:49:35 pm

I don't really put a lot of importance on book cover art. I'm more interested in the blurbs and reviews of the book to decide whether to read the book or not.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:28:26 pm

I agree with you, Jessica. As a librarian, I've seen a lot of books with great covers but terrible plots. I've also seen books with unattractive covers with wonderful plots.

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Celeste Herrin
10/3/2018 09:18:11 pm

I can't wait to see if Paul survives. I sure hope so! I already have so much empathy for Dulcie. I'm eager to see how it ends.
Great book trailer!

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:22:43 pm

Thanks, Celeste. I won't give it away. You'll have to read the book. Glad you liked the booktrailer.

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Jerry Marquardt
10/3/2018 11:24:23 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Cloudy Rainbow, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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Debbie De Louise link
10/4/2018 03:21:40 pm

Thanks so much, Jerry. That means a lot to me.

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Jerry Marquardt
10/17/2018 05:27:21 pm

I can barely wait to read Cloudy Rainbow, as it will be early next week!




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