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MY OH MY, i'M WAY BEHIND ON MY POSTS

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Excuses, I have plenty of them. I'm guessing some has been because of missing my husband, but I have been able to get some things done, mainly working on program designs for people who want to open residential care homes in California. Doing this brings in some spending money--which i can surely use. I'm planning a book sale on Saturday, December 9 at the Springville Baptist Church in the Fellowship Hall from 1 to 3. (The church is off 190 on Bogart--only one way to get on Bogart, and the church is at the top of the hill.) I'll  have copies of both  series including the latest. And yes, they'll have sale prices. and and Every book is $10, Hope you'll stop by and say "hi." Marilyn

THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S SHADOW, by Laury A. Egan

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  The Psychologist’s Shadow is a portrait of Dr. Ellen Haskell, a compassionate, introspective therapist who finds herself in a dangerous struggle with an unknown stalker. The novel is a simmering suspense, one in which tension accumulates as the reader gains insights during sessions with clients—one of whom may be the psychologist’s shadow—and through the stalker’s journal entries, which serve as a discordant counterpoint. The inspiration for the novel originated in my college interest in psychology. During my later years at Carnegie Mellon University, I selected all of my course electives in that field. Upon graduation, the head of the university’s counseling center and one of my professors approached and urged me to embark on a career as a therapist. I was tempted but didn’t go that route, yet I continued to read books and to follow changes in psychology. When I began this manuscript in 1992 (a second novel), my goal was to meld my interest with my writing, depicting how a ther...