The secret to story magic

Rel Mollet Books, Good Stuff, On Writing

My house is quiet once again. Alas, all my people have gone back north, which means that in the silence, my characters have started to chatter, getting ready to throw themselves out of my brain/heart and onto the page.

I am not unaware of how blessed I am to have this job—I get to make up awesome people,

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All the Thanksgiving fun!

Rel Mollet Books, Family, Good Stuff

Happy Thanksgiving! Not sure if I’m going to get a Friday e-mail out so I wanted to shoot you a note today. I mean really, who looks at our emails on Friday? Except if there’s deals. I’m all about the Black Friday Deals!

Last weekend I scooted down to Iowa to hang out with my daughter who is expecting.

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A glimpse at the mess…

Rel Mollet Books, Good Stuff, On Writing

I’m at it again.

Spent this week plotting a new book. I’m currently working on IRIS, book 4 in the Minnesota Marshalls series, and oh, this is a fun one. The little hint I’ll give you is that I’m using this book for research…

Currently, the story looks like this:

Which then translates to this:

But I’m getting WAY ahead of myself because next up is book #2 in the series – JONAS.

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So, I did a thing…

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I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving (and if you don’t celebrate the American Thanksgiving holiday, I hope you had a nice Thursday. I well remember our days living in Russia where we’d eat chicken thighs for dinner while the rest of Russia went on with their lives!)

We are home, playing games and puzzling.

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When you’re grateful…

Rel Mollet Books, Family, Good Stuff

Can’t believe the month of August is over! What. Happened? Although in MN, we have One more Epic Weekend before the school year starts, in IOWA, where Bubby lives, her school started two weeks ago.

So we had one last week of Summer Fun at MayMay’s house. We went to the zoo, the park,

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Heads up for the Great Pumpkin!

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Happy Great Pumpkin weekend!

When I was a kid, Halloween was a sort of epic event where my father took us trick-or-treating and we played the game of how much candy we could get. (My mother then rationed out our candy for months—one piece in our lunch. Just to keep us from full out gluttony.

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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #20

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Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes!
• The hunt BEGINS on 10/21 at noon MST with Stop #1 at 

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So, there was this bunny…

Rel Mollet Books, Family, Food and Drink, Good Stuff

We returned home from our epic five day drive from Florida yesterday. Twenty-six hours. TWENTY audio book chapters of Brandon Sanderson’s Oathbringers. 4 nutty bars, a bag of Cheetos and McDonalds… (I don’t know why I eat like a teenager when I travel. It’s like a Pavlovian response. I get in the car and think…road trip! 

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And now, some fun…

Rel Mollet Books, Family, Good Stuff, Just for Fun

Hello from the beach!

Listen, I know a lot of you are cold. I’m praying for Texas and Minnesota and all the other cold, blizzardly places. Frankly, I love snow, and sitting by a cozy fire reading a book. But it can be dangerous…stay inside. Bundle up. Drink some cocoa. This too, shall pass.

Your ice cream cone is out there,

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