Appearances

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Archived Events:

August 4, 2020
The Poisoned Pen
Scottsdale, AZ
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August 8, 2020
Murder by the Book
Houston, TX
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August 22, 2020
The Poisoned Pen presents: Jungle Red Writers
All seven Jungle Red Writers appeared on Facebook Live!
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September 10, 2020
Book Passage Extended Sessions
Rhys in conversation with Cara Black
Free registration required to watch the replay.

October 24, 2020
MWA Mystery Week panel
“Stayin’ Alive: How to stay creative while the city’s breaking and everybody’s shaking”
Camille Minichino (moderator), Rhys Bowen, Ann Parker, Margaret Dumas, J.J. Lamb
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Rhys Bowen

18 hours ago

The Joy of Binge Reading Podcast features me today, plus my book. the Twelve Clues if Christmas is part of their giveaway

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Rhys Bowen - Enduring Storyteller

thejoysofbingereading.com

Rhys Bowen’s books sell in the millions around the world. She enjoys popular and critical

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I loved the 12 Clues of Christmas because I was raised near Muncie Indiana.

The 12 Clues of Christmas started me on the Royal Spyness series! I just adore Lady Georgie!

It's on my wishlist!!

Caroline Kelly our favourite author 👏👏👏

Loved both books! The Twelve Clues of Christmas is now part of my annual holiday reading.

Love all your books. You also got me into reading Louise Penny. I’m going to try Deborah Crombie next . Thank you

I LOVED your Twelve Clues book! I am an avid follower of Darcy and Georgie. <3

At the moment I'm both bingereading AND bingelistening to the 14 Royal Spyness books and wishing it was next August (I hope the new Spyness-book is out in early August next year).

Love the 12 Clues of Christmas!

Have complete set of Evan series..absolutely loved it!

Absolutely loved Above The Bay of Angels!!!💕💕💕

I loved the Twelve Clues book! I’ve read most of the Her Royal Spyness series. I’m currently reading the Molly Murphy mysteries and I love them!!! Your books are fantastic! ♥️

Love The Twelve Clues of Christmas!

Lovely! My library book club read your recent mystery The Last Mrs. Summers and loved it!

Enduring! Yes, that's the word for you, Rhys! I'm looking forward to visiting Evans-the-Law again soon.

I loved this book!

Please write a sequel to The Bay of Angels.

Such a good read ... 📚

I loved this ❤

1 Love the Royal Spayness series , I hopp it is comming more of them.

Loved this one too!

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Rhys Bowen

2 days ago

Peaceful scene Sunday. I miss church. I miss family I need serenity. How are you feeling? ... See MoreSee Less

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I miss my family but knowing they are all healthy and following the “stay safe” rules by staying home gives me comfort. This will be my first Thanksgiving alone. I’m thankful for the 84 I’ve had. Wishing everyone a blessed Thanksgiving Day. 🙏💖

Truly, God is my strength and comfort these dismal days. Find joy and thankfulness in the little things...and yes, in spite of our constraints, there are many. Be of good cheer🙂

I do struggle at times. However I look for blessings around me. I look for the helpers toiling to love, help, and cure. I look to myself and do what I can, what I must.

I am feeling blessed! I was able to visit with two kid families this weekend. I know I am so very lucky to have had this time with them. I also know I may not have another visit for a long time.

Love to you Bonda, you are a women of first, and although these holidays are your first without Norm, you will always have him in you heart. Live each day with his memory and by the grace of God you will find glory and joy in the days ahead.

I miss the same things you do. It's so hard not to see friends and family.

We are fortunate to have found an Episcopal church near by where Eucharist is celebrated outside on Sundays!

I shall miss Thanksgiving with my family. I miss my Church family, although I can watch through Zoom. I miss many things, but am thankful for what I do have. Those are beautiful pictures.

I miss my family! My children live all across our state of Texas and we haven't been together since March.

On tenterhooks, thank you. My mother has Covid right now. I call her every day, and she sounded a little better today, but I'm worried.

I have Covid19 and have been really sick since veterans day. I am so tired of this whole thing

Beautiful photos Thank you. I really miss church I really miss communion nine months without communion.... The isolation is difficult when one lives alone although I must say my cat is good company but not quite like human company. I miss my family... But the family is healthy including my 91-year-old mother and I have much For which to be grateful

I have to confess I am thriving in this. My family lives far away, so we don't see each other anyway. I love to stay at home, listening to music and/or reading. I am not an outdoor person, so staying indoors is my thing. I am usually not interested in interacting with people, shaking hands etc., so I love social distancing. My friends talk to me by phone and I get WhatsApp messages, that's enough contacts for me.

I, too, miss family, weekend drives, gathering with friends.

I miss all that too. I just want to hug my dad. Mom too, but she's already in Heaven.

I miss the camaraderie of going to work everyday. We are working from home mostly. Although I like the part where I don’t get up and rush off somewhere. Also miss church and choir.

Like that. It's a beautiful picture. I love November, so serene and beautiful in its own way. I'm missing people, but more than that, I'm worried about the effects of the strain on my kids and friends. Be safe, all.

Today is my brother's birthday, also the anniversary of JFK's death. I recently lost family members, so feeling a bit down.

David’s idea is beautiful. I just finished streaming my church’s mass, I love the ability to do this! I lost a very close friend to covid this week and I’m able to stream his funeral, he was in Nebraska and I’m in New York! That I feel is a blessing, unfortunately there is just too much we can not do. 🙏🏻❤️

I miss my spouse equivalent, since he is an essential worker and I am immunocompromised.

Me too, but I’m finding some comfort in “attending” church with my parents on YouTube. They live a hundred miles away, but we can at least share this experience. Today, I’m eagerly awaiting the arrival of my youngest son who is coming home from college this afternoon. It sure will be an adjustment— having to mask up and remain carefully distanced in the house though. 💙

We had plans for all my kids to come home for Christmas and I held on to that for so long! Finally had to cancel. So sad. Can’t wait for this to be over!

Grateful and at peace today, despite have a grumpy baby during home church time and older children who have a hard time sitting quietly for the 15 or 20 minutes it usually lasts. I've been reading a lot of gratitude posts this weekend, and reflecting on good and beautiful things, and it has brought me peace. #givethanks

Just watched our church on Facebook live. That is something I look forward to each week. I am very thankful for our health, for family and for a safe holiday season.

I'm mostly doing okay, but my mother and a dear older friend, both in their 80s, are getting depressed by it, wondering if they are going to live long enough for things to get back to normal. I keep trying to be optimistic for both of them.

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Rhys Bowen

4 days ago

In a week of anxieties I suddenly found that ALL my photos had vanished from my phone. And my MacBook. And from the iCloud. Every photo since 2013 gone. Utter despair. I had downloaded an old photo file from John and thought that might be the trouble. Apple tech help couldn’t find the pix but then a second level tech did find and restore. Oh the relief. And advice to back up everything to an external drive. ... See MoreSee Less

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Oh Rhys, I'm so glad the tech was able to restore them. I had similar palpitations in October. I got home from writing like a maniac on solo retreat - half a book - and when I opened Scrivener at home it was all GONE. It had to do with my traveling laptop not being on wifi where I was (which is why I can write so bloody much there) and not yet having synced with my other laptop. In a panic, I tracked down the the last backup from the day before and restored it. Awful feeling to lose 35000 words!

Glad they were able to recover your photos. I learned about backing things up on a flash drive the hard way when my older iMac crashed and I lost my photos and recipes I had been putting on it.

I purchased one of those automatic back up things and it worked but it backed up several a few times.

Yep! I have thousands upon thousands of photos and videos backed up in external drive with mega gigs of storage. Apple support are truly amazing! We really do have thousands of LIVE photos as I’m a bit of an amateur photographer of wildlife minibeasts.

Make sure you have a back-up for the external drive. Ours needed an update and it wipes 3/4 of our files, including medical and musical files we didn't have anywhere else!

I never take a photo with my phone. I am a photographer with "real" cameras LOL and download my photos to a laptop and a desktop PC. I would NEVER put my photos in one spot especially a phone. I had a friend recently who LOST her phone....gone, all her photos with no way to restore them. Very sad.

A few years ago, a tech at Verizon eliminated all of my son’s irreplaceable wedding photos on my droid. Photos now are synced between my iPad and my computer. I have a little one terabyte external hard drive, and every month, on the beginning of the month, I back up to that external hard drive. You never know when the power will go out. After an update last year on my computer, I lost all of my contacts. I had the names but not the information. But because I had backed up, I was able to go into the Time Machine and recall all of the information. Backing up is essential!

I have a flash drive I reserve just for photos. Any time I add a photo to my computer, I copy them all to the flash drive. Once a month, I copy every important thing on my computer to an external hard drive I use only for that purpose.

I have seen special drives for photos, and I should get one, I have thousands of pictures on my phone

I even put my photos on DVDs in addition to external hard drive. I don't trust that cloud thingy.

An external backup is a MUST. They aren’t expensive (worth every cent) and are easy to use.

I'm glad you got ypur photos back. I'm a nut about backing up stuff. I use an external hard drive, two flash drives AND a microdisk, just to make sure everything's covered.

So glad you got them back. That would certainly be a huge loss. I'll back up my photos on my Seagate external TODAY. I'd been planning to and hadn't got around to it.

They should be able to retrieve them from icloud. I do backup on a flash drive.

I have my photos on DVDs. But now everyone is outing them on thumb drives . As long as I can I will lie them like that.

Oh yes, back up everything to an external source. Glad you got your files back. Wow, what relief that must be.

My brother got me a flash drive that attaches to my phone and I can download pictures and them transfer them to the computer. I lost a lot of pictures, including the last one of my dad, when my last phone died.

I back up multiple times... Large external hard drive...drag and drop... Then small flash drives for files of special pics. And Mac timecapsule does automatic back ups of your entire hard drive!

Glad that got resolved. In sure it was another level of stress you didn't need.

I am so happy that you were able to retrieve your pictures I understand the panic!

Boy, that's rough! You have my sympathy. I somehow (was I sleep-typing?) lost all my contacts. Fortunately, my IT got them back for me before I had to be bundled into one of those white jackets.

I feel your pain. About half of my photos disappeared when I transferred everything to this computer about five years ago. But I hadn’t erased the old computer. It sits on a table beside my writing chair with nothing on it but those photos and my music. I hope it outlasts me. (But I also have them on an external hard drive and two or three thumb drives. I’m a plan B, C, D kind of person.) :-)

And if you want to print them ever DO NOT use those photo back up memory sticks!

Why I have always bought Apple.

I have all my photos on an external hard drive. Then I was worried what happens if that hard drive breaks so I copied the entire thing onto another external hard drive to keep at my parents house in case of a fire. Now I have a cloud to back up all the pics on my phone (91,669) of them 😬 that’s a lot.

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