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Monday, January 7, 2019

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED?


Why Christmas Lights ...






and Nativity Scenes 




stay up until January 6th?


It has to do with the date
celebrated for when 
the 3 Wise Men arrived 
to greet the infant Jesus


It is known as Three Kings Day,
the Epiphany
the 12th Day of Christmas


It also marks the official start 
of the Mardi Gras Season
often called Carnival
which comes from
 the Latin words
 carne vale
meaning 
"farewell to the flesh."

Which is apt for my new novel


Mardi Gras, Magic, Murder
in 1947 New Orleans



Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte
Our Lady of Holy Death
is stalking the streets 
killing apparently at random.


Her Acolyte is stalking the shadows 
of the French Quarter


A masked
Ball of the Undead
is held to entrap
hapless mortals.

 
And the bomb 
that has been ticking 
in the midst 
of the cast of characters 
from
Silhouettes in the Key of Scream
 to
 Perchance to Nightmare
 to 
Beware the Jade Christmas


Explodes in
RAZOR VALENTINE

COMING SOON

Interested?

5 comments:

  1. Hi Roland - it's great the way you've tied in the reasons with the new novel you have coming out. Congratulations on all the books you manage to write and promote so cleverly ... good luck with them - and all the very best for 2019 - cheers Hilary

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    1. I try ... sometimes I succeed. :-) Thanks for being my friend and dropping in and being so kind.

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  2. Yes!
    My parents leave their decorations up through the fifth of January.

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    1. When I was younger, I used to wonder if there was a reason that the decorations stayed up into January. :-) Redd Foxx kept a Christmas Tree up all year since when he was a boy, his family had been too poor to afford one each Christmas.

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    2. I keep my decorations up at least until the 6th of January, sometimes, as is the case this year, until a week later. Some churches acknowledge the Christmas season to about a week after Epiphany Day which is around the time that the Baptism of Christ is acknowledged.

      You have some neat titles to those stories, Roland.

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