Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

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Shawna McGann is Mick’s love interest in Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella, a self-published prelude to Book 1 which is launching in July of 2024.

This portion of Mick Muldoon’s life is after he emigrates from County Kerry, Ireland beginning in 1867, and includes the years he lived in Minnesota up to 1874. Mick finally found a place where his hopes for a better life could be fulfilled.

The Irish were a prolific emigration population but not a popular one. There were many in America who intensely disliked the Irish Catholics, and didn’t understand the horrific poverty and famine they had escaped. They might not take part in the active persecution, or malicious slander but unfair beliefs about the Irish people persisted for many years. As in modern times, emigrant groups tended to join those who understood their experiences, backgrounds, or class distinctions.

Hop Into Spring Giveaway!

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It’s time for another multi-author book giveaway through my generous publisher, Celebrate Lit Publishing.

You can enter the Hop Into Spring multi-author giveaway as many times as you’d like from 3/18 through midnight 3/24! The first prize is 35 books, and the grand prize is a $500 Amazon gift card to spend on anything.

Whether you win—which I pray so, or don’t, I hope you find some new-to-you authors to connect with and enjoy their books. Happy discovering!

Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

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About the Irish Muldoon family book series: Those Resilient Muldoons. Book 1 launches in July 2024.

Ed Muldoon is Mick’s older brother who appears in the prelude novella currently published: Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling, and in Book 1 and 2 of 3. He’s intense, bitter, and his siblings call him a bully. His humor isn’t funny.

The best thing he’s ever done is rescue Mick from the New York City tenement slums and return him to farming in rural Minnesota. Ed is a gambler, not a farmer, but he tries his best to make restitution for his treatment of Mick. Until there’s nothing he can do.

Muldoon’s Fiction and Facts

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Meet Mick Muldoon. Main character in Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella launched in 2023, and in the 2024 July launch of Muldoon’s Misfortunes.

He’s an Irish widower who emigrates to NYC in 1867 searching with all the hope he can muster for a new life.

As Mick approached the Emigrant Landing Depot of Castle Gardens, he said, “Well, bless me soul. ’Tis well built, aye? Solid. What do you suppose that tower—look there. Are those cannons? They beat the English with them, no doubt.”

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Worry Pearls, 4 of 4

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Dear subscribers,

Before my eBook’s blog tour, we were talking about worries. I’ve had trouble battling them in the past, and I’ve journaled during Bible studies to gather a collection of verses. Scripture was the best aid in my recovery.

As I processed a different way to react and think about challenges, I made my thoughts into a note to whatever troubled me. My hope is these notes will help you as well.

Other Than Writing Activities

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Dear readers,

Here on my blog, it’s been all about marketing my books for some time. Would you like to know what I do when I’m not writing or doing author tasks?

I bird and critter watch outside my window from my office, the front glass door to my patio, and the many windows of our cozy home. Since my husband and I both work from our house, it’s much too easy to never take a break! But it’s not healthy.

The area behind us and to one side of us is a nicely wooded area with an intermittent creek. They won’t build on it. They are bulldozing thousands of acres in our area to build apartments, condominiums, and sometimes neighborhoods. It makes me very sad.

Where we live cannot be further demolished. Making me very happy! The woodland creatures are losing habitat at a terrible rate, so I named my area, Sparrow Woods. We’ve got feeders, a birdbath, and other water sources. I jokingly call it my Sleeping Beauty yard.

With year-round food, we have birds and squirrels. Now, the chipmunks have returned. It’s been seven months since I took a photo of a woodchuck on my porch heading for the water tray. I’ve yet to spot deer here, but I have photos of their tracks in the sandy dirt. Took a few photos of cougar tracks as well. Yikes! Hope you enjoy this side of my personal life. *Bluebirds are my favorite! #sparrowwoods

It’s Time For Another Multi-author Giveaway

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My generous publisher, Celebrate Lit, is hosting We Love Our Readers February giveaway. You could win 45 books or a $500 Amazon gift card!

They also do this separately for their authors—I’ve known two of them. Isn’t that lovely? *You can see my gift, second row, left side. The giveaway link is LIVE Sunday evening and goes through 2/18.

https://promosimple.com/ps/28cdb/2024-we-love-our-readers-multi-author

Enter each day as many times as you’d like to increase your chances. I hope one of you wins!

Day 15-Blog Tour of Muldoon’s Minnesota Darling: a Novella, (Reviewed)

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Jan 23-Feb 5, 2024, welcome to the blog tour of my eBook hosted by the publisher of my next three books, Celebrate Lit. 

The reviewer posted on her blog:

We live on a farm and enjoy our horses, goats (Alpine milk goats), Jersey dairy cows, Corriedale sheep, chickens, guineas, turkeys, geese, cats, and dogs. On our farm, we’re up with the sun milking.  Our sheep are wool sheep, and they get sheared once a year; they are also meat sheep, so we do enjoy lamb on our menu. We love our free-range chickens and get plenty of eggs to help keep us healthy. Our horses are used for our hobby of reenacting the Civil War. We raise Quarter horses and have an Arabian as well.

For Him and My Family to read the entire review…