3 Ways To Know How Your Stick Floats

by Stephen Bly

A man from Bellevue, Washington wrote to me that he could recall his grandfather always saying, “Well, if that’s the way your stick floats.” He wondered where that came from.

 I wasn’t sure if it was a western-ism, but dug around until I found the source. 

A New Book For Kids: The Song of Pounce

The Song of Pounce

by Nita Berquist

Here's a new book for kids, written by a friend ... 

Can a really different outsider ever belong?

Life for Pounce is upside down. He is thrown away, cruelly treated; a housecat dishonored by people, chased by wild animals, and faced with strange adventures. 

Western Movies & Women's Wear

Movie: Shane

by Stephen Bly

The main drawback to some western movies is what I call "Shane's Disease." This is a cinematic illness that's non-fatal, but that weakens a tad an otherwise decent movie.

For instance, in a couple different scenes of Tom Selleck's Last Stand at Saber River, Lorraine Kidston (played well by Tracey Needham) wears pants. The movie is set in 1865, Arizona Territory. No lady of any standing would have dreamed of wearing pants.

TWICE A BRIDE novel by Mona Hodgson

Twice A Bride by Mona Hodgson

Love lost doesn't mean love lost forever.

Can unexpected romance deliver a second chance

for two deserving widows?

AFTER TWO WEBSITE CRASHES ...

 

After two Bly Books website crashes this last summer,

this site has finally been launched once again.

 

To celebrate, we're offering . . .