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Buckle Up! New Title Revealed
Look Alive! Misadventures in a School Bus is the title of my next novel, the second in the House of Girls series, which is due to be released this spring from Midwestern Books. But first – Do you remember the snack cake ads from the dinosaur days of the early 1970s? The ad showed a family of four looking at…
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Happy January 2024
Happy January. Iowa is hoarding all of our snow, but we do have the freezing temps we’re so famous for in balmy Minnesota. I finally got over pneumonia and was blessed with Covid this week after attending two funerals. 2024 is off to a rocking start. Like that bouncy clown that keeps getting knocked down and springing back up again,…
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Travel Trunk from 1914
This is the actual travel trunk my Great Aunt Clare Louise took to France during WWI to assist the Red Cross with translations. I’m her namesake so I was happy to have this treasure. Inside is a pullout shelf above a deep space for clothing. Imagine traveling for three months with only the items you could include in a trunk…
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Mountains of Trouble’s 5-Star Review
My first novel, Mountains of Trouble, received a five-star review from Reader’s Favorite, a professional reviewing site. Reviewer Joanie Chevalier had this to say: “Mountains of Trouble by Clare Bills is an inspiring story about determination, integrity, loss, forgiveness, love, and acceptance. There is so much depth to Mountains of Trouble that readers may find themselves thinking about the story…
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Stay Out of That Room Soars Ahead
Life has a way of zooming ahead of me…and way ahead of this blog. In May of 2023, Midwestern Books launched my lighthearted book, Stay Out of That Room, and within the first week it reached bestseller status on Amazon in three teen categories. If you’ve read it, please leave a review. And if you haven’t yet, please consider a…
