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Hello October. It’s finally fall and the spooky things are in the air. The veil is thinning and the ghosts are already pressing on the boundaries between worlds. It makes my headache, but in a good way because I have new ideas coming. Yes, I listen to the voices in my head. They do give…
Here is the second except from the little weird thing I’ve been working on here and there in segments. This section is called A Walk in the Woods. Her most recent excursion into the same wood brought a different feeling with it. All the questioning remained as to what she was, that never went away,…
I’ve been walking this dusty road for over twenty years. It seems like yesterday I was slogging through the phone book thick tome of the latest Writer’s Market looking for agents. You know, back before digital was a thing. In my early years, I sent out packets of my first book to agents trying to…
How did I get here? I sometimes wonder. My introduction to books was my grandmother reading to me at bedtime. My grandparents were literary people. My grandmother was a Special Education Teacher and my grandfather was a minister. They basically raised me which meant I was surrounded by books when I was at their house….
Today I’m sharing a snippet of something I’ve been working on. Enjoy! She looked at herself in the mirror and sighed. This was what she saw every morning when she woke up. Hair flying all over the place laced through with gray among the dark brown strands. Lines forming around her eyes, but she didn’t…
Today’s article will focus on words. Yes, words. The spotlight will land on the value and impact of words. With the explosion of social media, it seems as if we, as a country, as human beings in the U.S. have lost the understanding of the true treasure of words. There’s a saying that when…
Years ago, I was an attending author at a convention appearing on a panel about writing romance novels. with several other very talented romance novelists. The discussion was great veering from how to write a sexy scene to how to get into self-publishing. When the Q&A portion of the panel came, one of the audience…
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