Many of the things in my life have remained the same. I have a day job at an essential service, banking. It has been interesting and I enjoy working to help folks keep somethings on a more even keel. Even though somethings remain real and comfortable, somethings must change. Meetings, even in small groups will…
I am continuing to edit book 1 in the Naldo Series. Not Too Late Forever has been an intense learning experience for me. Over the years I have heard over and over again, write it and put in a drawer, then write another. I have contemplated filing “Not Too Late Forever” away, but I can’t….
This week I got very strongly reminded that I had not spent the proper amount of time posting something, anything to my webpage. Life has gotten away from me. As with many others who would love to be published authors, there is so much going on in my life. A fulltime job and part of…
I had really been looking forward to the Surrey International Writers Conference this year, and it worked out to be so much more than I had hoped. The first thing I did was take a master class from Laura Bradford, founder of the Bradford Literary Agency. It was amazing. I couldn’t think what my comp…
This week I continue to work on the edit of my book “Not Too Late Forever”. It’s feeling really good, because some of those in my critique group are down to the point of “I like it, but…” Where the “but” comes in is something like, “You like to make up words, so give me…
This week I’m determined to work through another edit of the first chapter of my book. I never thought I would enjoy the edit as much as I enjoy the original creation, but I do. More than that, it is like having a small shed and transforming it into an gleaming sky scraper. Over twelve…
My first day at #Siwc17 is complete. Interesting things happened, not all joyful. For the first time in a pitch, I did not get asked to submit. This affirmed my thoughts to turn to self-publishing. I don’t want to diminish my experience with Angela Ackerman and my blue pencil. Brilliant suggestions have motivated me to…
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Keynote speaker Gail Tsukiyama kicks off the Conference at 9:00 a.m. I still haven’t decided which workshop I’ll start with. One, with Alan Clark, is enticing. The title “What Were They Thinking? The Drama Available in History.” makes me thing of the book I’m working on about Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort. I’ll report more back…
Today is the last day of NaNoWriMo. Tomorrow I will go back to the edit of Book one in the Naldo series. There is one more write-in today so I will work on a scene, and if I have time start with what will be the closing one. There much more work than that tod…
I thought the previous days were incredible. Then this day happened. Great keynote at opening, then on to a pitch of my book to Linda Epstein. She was so nice. I was so nervous. She got me talking about my book and my characters. Then… Oh My Gosh!!! She is only making requests for full manuscripts….
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The meeting didn’t last long. For Marie it only brought more questions and doubt about any success for survival. Wow! The above two sentences are all that came into this weeks edit. Stay tuned to see what happens to Marie and Sam. Happy reading.
January 28, 2013: I need to write something for my website. So what do I do? First I need to make a new friend. With each new character in my stories, I need to get to know them first. Lately I have been thinking about someone like Typhoid Mary. In the next few weeks I…