Author Team, TJ Boyer & Elizabeth Ajamie-Boyer
Monsoons in the desert. Again. They are a marvelous thing. The air gets sultry, hot. Taking a breath is difficult. As the day wanes, the wind begins rushing across the desert. The dust rises from the dreadfully dry ground. A haboob. Or a dust storm if you're old fashioned. The rain usually follows. Thunder roars,… Continue reading Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling
Hi, everyone! Yes, I still blog on TJ's and my website, the Mirror Gate Chronicles! I'm also using Substack to reach more people. You can join Substack for free. Then you can follow me and TJ through all our antics. I am hoping to hear our trailer is all fixed up next week. Then all… Continue reading Pack Up All My Cares…and woe
Right at this moment, I'm having a small issue with WordPress. You used to tell them to put your blog at the top of your page by clicking a box. They've changed the language so there's a toggle called sticky. You toggle it on to keep your blog at the top of your page. Good… Continue reading Hot Fun in the Summer Time
Today is June 1, 2024. The temperature is over 100* at noon. Kill me now. These temps make me sluggish, headachy, and grouchy. I am completely unmotivated to write this blog. No rain is likely for a month. This is my really sad face: In the meantime, TJ and I are coming up on the… Continue reading Hot Town, Summer in the City
TJ and I are Christians. That being said, we aren't perfect people who are never mean and who never speak out in anger. We occasionally use language/words unbecoming our calling... Even with one another. But as the Doobie Brothers once sang: I don't care what they say! Jesus is just all right with me. Everyone… Continue reading I Don’t Care What They Say!
There are songs I love. So many songs. When I was a teenager, I would write lyrics into my diary, or onto my school notebooks. Pages and pages of song lyrics. Don't for a minute believe they were my own songs, though. They were the Beatles, the Bee Gees, the Monkeys, and others that for… Continue reading I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You
The Mirror Gate Chronicles Team finished another successful event at the Verde Valley Comic Expo, yesterday! We had a great time, schmoozed with other authors and artists, and sold a few books! We are thankful to the Verde Valley Library for having this event! The monies generated (from the event) go to reading for children… Continue reading I do Believe That a Change Is Gonna Do Me Good
So, book events are like, what did we learn this time? At the Tombstone Western Writers event we learned to make sure certain things in the new trailer still work. Like the refrigerator and the heater. Because wow, was the weather ever cold, rainy, and windy down there. Thursday and Friday were bitterly cold, mostly… Continue reading Here Comes the Sun (in the Valley of the Sun)
Several years ago, I started a new story. Then I stopped writing said story. Then my sister, Susan Wingate said, "You should write a story about..." Her topic was what I had begun years before. Needless to say, I reviewed, reworked, re-edited that manuscript. I have to say, this story is unlike anything I've written… Continue reading New Book! Squee!
Hello! So the bad news is spring doesn't begin until March 19th. The good news is Phoenix Spring has begun with temps in the 70s! Yah, it's a thing in the southwest. I am only hoping the weather ramps up slowly because I love the 60's and 70's, but I loathe actual hot weather. We've… Continue reading Spring Isn’t Here
Happy New Year! May God bless and keep you throughout the entire year and beyond. This scripture, Isaiah 43:19 Behold, I am going to do something new,Now it will spring up; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert, is my scripture verse for this… Continue reading A Hazy Shade of Winter
I have always wanted to go to Israel and Lebanon. I suppose now isn't the time, though. With the terrorists attacking, holding hostages, and assaulting women and children, I need to stay out of there. But someday. Someday, there will be peace for a minute. I will go walk where Jesus walked. Did you know… Continue reading Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem
Fall weather finally arrived in Phoenix the last two weeks. Our doors are open all day except when our neighbors leave their diesel truck running in their driveway, or someone is smoking at their house. Regardless, we can stop running the air conditioner! The electric bills are descending! Hooray! We don't get a lot of… Continue reading Leaves that are Green
It’s Been A Long Time Coming Posted on October 10, 2023 by rdeemd1 Once more, I need to apologize for not writing for so long. TJ and I have been writing, editing… living our lives. There’s not a lot going on. At the same time, there’s so much going on. I have a new manuscript at the BETA readers… Continue reading New Post
This title is so appropriate for Phoenix. I know, I know. The weather is hot where you are, as well. But Phoenix at 115* to 119*, is hardly bearable, and for the whole month of July. Additionally, the monsoon has been a non-soon. Again. That being said, a lot of the State of AZ got… Continue reading Hot Town, Summer in the City…
