Rosa Parkes refused to give up her seat – which soon led to the Selma to Montgomery Walk, one of the most famous demos of modern times. Ghandi refused to pay the salt tax–which led to the March to the Sea, an incredible demo enshrined in history.
I refuse to keep quiet about Kids in Cages. I blogged about my charity anthology in support of the kids just last week and raised a furor amongst a small but vociferous segment of my readers, who declared the issue propaganda dreamt up by anti-American newspapers.
I only wish it were. I’m a Brit; I knew nothing about the terrible plight of those kids until I talked to the American lawyers fighting to free them. Yes, fighting to free them today. And winning sometimes.
RAICEStexas.org opens 10,000 new family cases each year. More than two thousand so far this year. Do you think 10,000 families get their kids freed each year? Not even close. It takes years for the kids to be freed. Several years. So, what can I do? I’m not an American citizen, I have no Congressman to call to account, no Representative. I can’t march, supposing there was a march (which so far as I know there isn’t) because I’m housebound.
What can I do? I’m a writer, I can write. So I gathered a small group of Cozy authors together, on the net, and we each wrote a Cozy Mystery, and I paid the publishing costs, and all the money raised by the book sales is going straight to fund the fight to free the kids.
What can you do? Educate yourself about the reality of what’s happening, right there in the Land of the Free, and then lobby to get those kids back with their families.
Suppose you have troubles in your own life, you can’t spare the time or energy to take up unpopular causes, you can’t spare the head space to think about the misery in the world, because you have enough misery in your own life. You can’t spare the time or money or energy to fight Uncle Sam, not to mention you don’t want your name on some list that one day might bite you.
There is still something you can do. It will cost you Zero in time or energy and almost nothing in money. It will bring joy into your life. Not just the joy of knowing that you’ve helped those who cannot help themselves. Not just the glow of that virtue, which is its own reward, knowing that you’re fighting the good fight against those whom it was better a millstone went around their necks.
No, a different kind of joy altogether. The fun of reading ten delightful Cozy Mysteries, Saint Patrick’s Day themed, and then making one of the delicious recipes in the book to feed your family an authentically Irish Saint Patrick’s Day meal.
Go on, you deserve it! An Irish Blessing upon ye. May the wind be ever at your back, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of His Hand.
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Ten authors got together to bring you these super Cozy mysteries, themed around Luck, Saint Patrick’s Day and–in rather surprising ways — sometimes leprechauns.
Some of our authors are well known to you, such as radio celebrity Kathleen Marple Kalb and USA Today listed author C. A. Phipps. Some are total unknowns, such as W. Jenkins (although Will’s story is, in my opinion and that of some others, the funniest Cozy I’ve read).
Short stories, novellas, and all stops in between, enjoy dipping into this book whenever you have a few minutes to spare when you can read.
The authors’ Favourite Saint Patrick’s Day Irish Recipes are included.
Whatever your taste in Cozies, we hope that you will enjoy these stories, and I do not hesitate to say that there’s something here for everyone…
Kate Darroch lives on the picturesque Devon coastline, where she combines her passion for cozy sleuths and her experiences of life as it’s lived in many countries to create compelling Travel Cozies.
Màiri Maguire, a Scots Irish teacher from 1970s Glasgow, heroine of debut novel, “Death in Paris”, has earned Kate many international book awards, including Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, consolidating her reputation as a notable author. Kate hopes her readers will enjoy Màiri’s adventures as much as she enjoys Father Brown, Sherlock Holmes, and that old, old movie, the Perils of Pauline.
Next, Kate created Huntingdon Hart, a dry, witty, prescient, multi-millionaire, tongue-in-cheek cross between James Bond and Sherlock Holmes, who’s in love with a much older woman.
Kate’s most recent work is the Christian Second Chance for Lasting Love series, Sweets By the Sea, a saga of Recovery and Redemption – which her readers say is even sweeter than Màiri’s adventures.
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