Penny Nixon's My Hometown - What makes it special

Penny Nixon's My Hometown - What makes it special

[Hi! I'm Penny Nixon. I am a reporter for the Oak Springs Enterprise. My dad, the editor, Dick Nixon, has encouraged me to write stories for the paper about my hometown, Oak Springs, MO, beginning in early 1987. After I write a little about the town, I get to do some interviews with local residents and visitors. These articles will appear in the weekly edition of the Oak Springs Enterprise. I hope you enjoy my stories.]

Oak Springs in the home of Ozark Community College. With the opening of Ozark Community College a few years ago, a new way of life has opened up here in Oak Springs. Young people can stay in Oak Springs and go to college; they don't have to move away. After high school, there is now a place to study, play sports, do drama, write for the school paper and many of the other things we knew we would miss when we left high school. Now, we continue these activities in a new, higher education environment. 

With the community college we also got a McDonalds Restaurant. For a town our size, this is pretty special. We still like our local cafes, but having a McDonalds has become the new, 'in place' to eat and hang out with friends. The sports teams like to congregate her and talk over the game or the practice session. Everyone can come and feel a part of the team.

Well, those are my first thoughts. I hope you liked them. Letters to the Editor are always welcome. Please be kind. Penny, out.

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Read "Back to the Homeplace" to learn more about life in Oak Springs, MO.

Just read Jan 2012 Sales Reports

Just read Jan 2012 Sales Reports

Thank you to all my readers who continue to buy both of my current fiction books in Print and Kindle Editions. It is very gratifying. If you just bought, and read, Back to the Homeplace, please come back and buy and read The Homeplace Revisited. I would love to hear from you, individually. To make it easy, and as a reminder, just click on either one you want that you don't currently have, to the left or to the right, in the sidebar!  ;-)

Happy Reading!  ;-)

Have you read "Back to the Homeplace"??

Have you read "Back to the Homeplace"??

Perhaps you should take a look at it; available in print or Kindle editions!


Below are some quotes from Reviews of the book.

Comments from Reviews of 'Back to the Homeplace':

" ... is a beautiful story of family. I love family sagas and stories about family secrets. Hence this book was a perfect read for me... I could easily identify with the characters. If you've ever had a big family, you would totally relate to them. Every character was so real. Their emotions, their problems were very realistically presented. Each character was so well-defined that I felt like I knew them."

Misha Mathew, "My Love Affair With Books" blog


"This family tree has some branches that do not always seem to come from the same roots. When the limbs are shaken, some surprises fall out. But despite themselves, most members persevere, grow on their new home sites, or return to their former lives to reassess themselves or make peace."

Jack L. Kennedy, Joplin Independent


"This very intimate story of one family, and how they manage to stick together through the thick and thin of every day life, is one story you won't want to miss! ...

Cyndi Beane Henry "Texicanwife" - from review on Amazon.com


"The characters seem very down to earth and real, with problems that we all face, I found it interesting that a few were addicted to Diet Coke, and would make trips to Walmart to purchase it, for me it doesn't get any more real than that! The descriptions of the birds, landscape and the Homestead in general were so vivid that it is easy to visualize it, and at one point when the author describes a vee of Canadian Geese flying overhead, I could just imagine hearing them honk."

Brenda Casto - from review on Amazon.com

Download Homeplace Novels to your Kindle - Today

Download "Homeplace" Novels to your Kindle

Today

Now that you are becoming accustomed to the Kindle you got for Christmas, I hope you will take a few minutes to download one or both of my novels, today. Just click on the Amazon ads in the sidebars, and you have direct and complete access.

They are each good to read as you wait in a doctor's office or at the barber or beauty salon. I hope you enjoy the stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.

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"May each of us have a Homeplace to hold onto, if only in our minds."

Bill ;-)

Happy New Year 2012!

Happy New Year 2012! 

From the Bevins Family and The Homeplace

Join the fun and family in 2012, starting with "Back to the Homeplace" and "The  Homeplace Revisited." Click on the cover in the sidebar!  ;-)

Christmas Gift for the Author

Thank you to Larry and Annette! Neat!

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"May each of us have a Homeplace to hold onto, if only in our minds."

Bill ;-)

Download Novels to your Kindle today

Download Novels to your Kindle today

Now that Santa has come and gone, leaving a new Kindle under your tree, we recommend that you download "Back to the Homeplace" and/or "The Homeplace Revisited" today, for a good family saga story to read on your new plaything. You will be glad you did! Have a great New Year!  ;-)

"The Trek to the Homeplace" in Anthology

"The Trek to the Homeplace" in Anthology

I have been notified that my short story: "The Trek to the Homeplace" has been included in the Ozarks Writers League Annual Anthology 2011: Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume VII.

Set in 1833 Missouri, shortly after statehood, an adaptation of this short story is expected to become the first chapter of the projected 'McDonald Family History' under the working title: "The First 25 Years of the Homeplace."

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