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First Kudo and Comment! Yay Me!
Paula this was fantastic work. Loved it thoroughly! Great concept, plotting and characters! OUTSTANDING! shame I can only kudo once*pout*
quidquid sum ego, et omnia mea semper; Ego me.
alecia Snowfall
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What - you mean the experts are disagreeing with each other? How can that be?
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Beekeepers
Ask two different beekeepers, "What is the right way to keep my bees?" and you get three different opinions. It isn't all cut and dried. There are many schools of thought on what is right.
Paula
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
The Coda
Chapterhouse: Dune
a bee-utiful story !
the bee's knees, indeed!
Paula_D,
Paula_D,
This was a terrific story. Learned a lot about bees and bee keeping that I never knew, and loved how you had Angela interacting with all those around her. It was marvelous to see how she went from being a "street urchin" to becoming the niece of one the wealthiest women in the region, as well as her fortune after it was found out about and capping it all with becoming a very professional, Ph-D degree owning business woman of a very large bee farm.
As a retired AF SF member, I loved that little mention regarding Angela's father when she was learning to shoot Dan's guns.
Hopefully, we might see another chapter in Angela's life one day grace our computer screens.
Great story!
Really enjoyed reading this. Hoping to see more of Angela's story, but know that you do not have to post 85 thousand words at a time.
Great story
My grandfather, then my father were bee keepers so I worked in bees as a teen and found this story well written, very entertaining and quite informative. Either you have worked around bees or you did a lot of research :)
One suggestion, which has nothing to do with the content. Breaking longer stories down to 20,000 words or less makes it easier for the reader to stop and come back to continue reading since It's impossible to slide in a book mark or dog ear a page online to make returning where you left off.
We the willing, led by the unsure. Have been doing so much with so little for so long,
We are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Fascinating story
I was transported into a type of agriculture I knew almost nothing about. And then Angela's story woven into it made it so compelling. Thanks Paula. But once I start one of your stories I can't stop reading, and this one was long.
Impressive!
I've been reading this stoey for te last several days, I was very impressed by the quality an depth of the story. I liked the way you tied up loose ends. Thank you.
The sexy beekeeper
Thank you Paula for this wonderful gift to all BC devotees.
I have a daughter who is keen to get into the bee world so your story gave such a wonderful insight into that critical ( for us all) industry interwoven with a lovely Ts story
Thanks heaps
Alexi
Alexinu
Sweet!
Such a wonderful, sweet story! I really enjoyed the plot, character development, and length. I really had difficulty putting it down once I began it. Thanks for sharing.
What an epic.
Thanks for a great read.
Nice 3d characters and a good plot.
A little fast throught the violent bit but that worked well too..
Great story
I love happy ending, best day of her life was day she wander on the farm
Out of Character?
I'm in awe, as usual, of Paula's detailed research.
Angela met Clint West, who teaches Forensic Entomology at the University of Mississippi. They married and adopted three kids.
Given her total lack of interest in men through the entire story, did anyone else wonder whether this was a marriage of convenience and the kids were more of an obligation to maintain Eleanor's legacy than a desire?
Eric
:) smiles
This was one Honey of a story. :) there i said it know you all wanted to. Look forward to more stories from you. Keep up the great work.
On a more critical note we are all arm chair critics you know :). I thought you could have ended without the quick life history at the end and could have made many more stories or spin offs.
Still look forward to more of your tales maybe with a few twists and stingers in them.
I could tell that the author
I could tell that the author was well versed in the raising of bees, and also concerned, as we all should be, in the reduction of bees. A very nice story.
Perfect
I have just spent a week immersed in this magnificent tale and already I am missing the plot, the wonderful characters and the enormity of the world that you created Paula. I genuinely mean that my days will be the poorer without the wealth of detail about apiary, the frankly loveable principal characters and the page turning action...thank you so much. Lucy xxx
"Lately it occurs to me..
what a long strange trip its been."
A GREAT story
I loved it a nice book all its own. I didn't know how much went into bee keeping. TY for enlightening your readers. Anglia was ment to a bee keeper it seams. After all a bee swarm adopted her. The ONLY thiing I would changer is where did Anglia place in High School I assume Jr level. & what if any friends did she have? Other than that a WONDERFUL story
Love Samantha Renée Heart.
Riding Properly
Sorry folks, but if Angela was being taught on an English saddle, she wasn't learning to ride properly. The English saddle is actually bad for a horse, as it puts the rider's weight directly on the horse's spine. The Western saddle was designed to distribute the rider's weight, with none of it on the spine.
Added: Dressage? Jumping? If it doesn't have barrel racing, calf roping, or bronc riding in it, it can't be much of a contest.
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb