Ruth J. Hartman

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Ruth J. Hartman spends her days herding cats, and her nights spinning mysterious tales that make you smile. She, her husband, and their cats love to spend time curled up in their recliners watching old Cary Grant movies. Well, the cats sit in the people's recliners. Not that the cats couldn't get their own furniture. They just choose to shed on someone else's.

Ruth, a left-handed, cat-herding, farmhouse-dwelling mystery writer uses her goofy sense of humor as she writes tales of klutzy women who find trouble without even trying. Ruth's husband and best friend, Garry, reads her manuscripts, rolls his eyes at her weird story ideas, and loves her in spite of her insistence that all of her books have at least one cat in them.

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Karen Tyrrell Thanks Ruth for friending,
Please check out my personal memoir, ME & HER: a Memoir Of Madness.
A teacher’s gutsy story of repeated parent harassment, mental breakdown & Recovery
How did reclaim my life?
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cheers,
Karen :)


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