Favorite team

My favorite team, The Boston Celtics won their game tonight over the 76ers. Go Celtics. I'm still packing up books to be shipped to my distributor in Florida. They ordered 150 copies of my children's books, The Oak Trees That Talk(one book for each season and Belcher, The 10th Reindeer).

Mama eats two dinners so I'm about to feed her a light meal. She tends to sleep better when she has a full stomach. Take care you all and I will be talking with you soon.

Blessings,
Minnie Dix aka Leigh McKnight

A Beautiful Mother's Day for Mama and I

Hello All,
My mother and I had a wonderful Mother's Day. We got cards, gifts and flowers. My brother, Robert and his wife, Lillie gave Mama a beautiful bouquet of white roses, they gave me a gift package of body logion and shower gel. Beautiful. My brother, Jerry and his wife, Doritha gave me a beautiful card. The card company did an appropriately beautiful job on the imprinted portion of the card, but when my brother wrote, 'thank you for being the mother to our sisters, brothers and our parents,' I completely lost it. Tears flowed. I would trade my family for all the tea in China. Meaning, I wouldn't take anything for them.

To those of you who have read my books, From My Front Porch and sequel, Sinners Never Sleep, I want to thank you so much for your support, and I hope you have enjoyed them.

One of my upcoming books is LOOKING FOR MR. TONIGHT. I would appreciate your continued support so please be on the look out for my upcoming books.

My book signing at Books A Million in Charleston this past Saturday went very well. It amazes me the generousity of people. As I was doing a book signing, one customer, a lady who owns a boutique, was buying two sets of my novels, Front Porch and Sinners. I mentioned that I had done a book signing at a boutique in Florence a few times and how well it went. She thought it was a good idea, then she purchased an additional 10 copies of each book which brought her total purchase to 24 books. I thanked her perfusely and I went out to my car and brought her several free copies of a book of short romantic stories, Champagne Dreams & Chocolate Kisses, that I wrote under my birth name, Minnie Dix and gave to her.

I got to get back to writing. Take care my friends and be blessed.

~Minnie Dix aka Leigh McKnight

Book Signing

Hello out there, it's been several days since my last contact. Just stopping by tonight to inform you that I am doing a book signing here in Sumter on Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, Waldenbooks, Sumter Mall, beginning at 3pm and ending at 6pm. The books I will be signing will be From My Front Porch and Sinners Never Sleep as well as my books under my birth name; Champagne Dreams & Chocolate Kisses, 150 Reasons Why I Can't Serve On Jury Duty, The Oak Trees That Talk and Belcher. You have been so supportive of me for many years and I thank you again for that. Please come out and join me at Waldenbooks on Friday. I look forward to seeing many of you out there. Until then, thank you so much, take care and be blessed!!

~~Leigh McKnight aka Minnie Dix

The reason I write

There are a number of reasons why I write. As I child I stuttered badly, but I always felt I had something to say that I wanted others to hear. I was teased while in elementary school so badly that I made it up in my mind that I was going to say what I had to say. When the words did come out, they did so in a flash and no one understood me anyway so the problem was still there. So early on my parents taught me to read and write. As a child I loved telling stories which more often than not, I wrote them down(went thru quite a bit of paper, too). By writing stories, reports at work, etc, I was able to communicate my thoughts.

The love of writing followed me and I decided to write songs, scripts, book. Now I am an author, writing under a pen name, Leigh McKnight. My birth name is Minnie Dix and I have written a number of books. My first published piece was in 1996,a short story, The Storm Within,From My Front Porch, self-published in 1997, 150 Reasons Why I Can't Serve On Jury Duty(humor), a series of children books, The Oak Trees That Talk(4 books), Belcher, The 10th Reindeer, The Reindeer That Missed The Flight, Champagne Dreams & Chocolate Kisses(short romantic stories. My First novel, From My Front Porch was recently re-published by Urban Soul under two titles, From My Front Porch and Sinners Never Sleep.

I enjoy writing and I am working on several other projects. I am just grateful to have a voice in doing what I so love and I truly want to thank so many of you for loving me and my work. Blessings to you all.

Much Love,
~~Leigh