For several days I have been looking for a reasonable explanation… So I am going with the unreasonable. A Gremlin did it. Knowing that I have word recognition issues I wrote the blurb and back cover of Waking Lucy in a file and had it proofread. Then I used the file on this website, Amazon*,…
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Whitney Awards
In the Good News category this week. is official notice that I am a Whitney Awards Nominee. Not the hardest nomination to get by far. All it takes is a few friends who know the award even exists. However, the graphics they gave me are very official looking and I just had to use them. …
Running Out and Looking Ahead
The Launch party for Waking Lucy was a huge success if running out of books is any way to measure. The wonderful ladies and My Girlfriend’s Quilt Shoppe gave me a nice spot near the door. So many friends came including one who drove over three hours. I may have screamed when I saw her. …
At last… Waking Lucy
I haven’t written for a very long time. I thought about writing I really did, but who wants to read about collecting rejection e-mails? Me neither. One rejection was of special note as in the end it culminated in a re-write and revise of Waking Lucy. After further consideration, Waking Lucy was ultimately rejected by…
Too Many Hats
I’ve been planning on ___________ for the past several months. But… Somehow this phrase has taken over my life. Insert whatever you want there: contacting an old friend, updating my blog, finishing my second novel (writing not reading), catching up on my scrapbooking or cleaning the bathroom. All of them will work. I have come…
Of Zombies, Oxford commas, and Misspellings
The bane of every writer is the passive voice, followed closely by the comma, and just plain old spelling and homonym usage. As I wrote my first novel, my mother would try to copy edit for me. No easy task because not only do I use homonyms, my brain sees words like ‘untie’ and…
Help I have Run Out of Books!
It happens, that moment when you realize you have read the last book in the house and have nothing on your Kindle that you want to read. It happened to me over the weekend. Of course, the library was closed, and I can’t buy a new book for myself, or no one will know what…
The $12,000 Spelling Error- A Lesson in Leadership
I can’t spell. I am a very creative speller. This should not be a shock to anyone who has ever had to read anything I have ever written. A hundred years from now some great-grandchild is going to try to read my journals and wonder what language I spoke. The summer between fourth and fifth…
The Scariest Click
It wasn’t my novel. No, that one isn’t quite ready. This was a little story that I wrote while Lucy, my first novel, was visiting with my beta readers. It isn’t much, and I am not emotionally attached. Okay, I didn’t think that I was attached until I hit “send.” Then it became my little…
Of Fountain Pens and Pen Names
The summer of my twentieth high school reunion, I took a few hours to visit my favorite teacher, Mrs. Rinard. She was that one teacher, the one who forever changed my life. It had taken me years to find her as she retired the year I graduated and had changed her name. Mrs. Rinard taught…