I started this post in September of 2012 and the first words I wrote were “This will be hard.” Now I can’t actually remember why I thought writing about heroes would be hard. This being my 100th post, I can’t think of a better topic. I write in a genre that celebrates heroes as the […]
Leigh’s Interview on Take Two On Romance: Today & Tomorrow
My answers to Jeff Salter’s interview questions about writing and creativity: http://taketwoonromance.weebly.com/1/post/2013/08/visit-from-leigh-verrill-rhys.html August 13-14, 2013: As Jeff says in his introduction, we go back a few years – but not that many! If you feel a comment coming on, please do!
A Free Press?
I found a scrap of yellowed paper from a paperback book among the various keepsakes I have carried with me from year to year. Though it is torn and crumpled, I will keep it with me always. In light of all the news regarding leaks and espionage, the dubious terrorist warnings designed to make all […]
Review: Close Range, Annie Proulx
I had a few moments to spare this past week to spend at the West Portal Public Library, choosing books I don’t have in my personal library. I went straight for Annie Proulx because I enjoyed The Shipping News so much. I wanted to read the short story, “Brokeback Mountain,” not because I had seen the […]
A Taste of Salsa on Sunday
Sunday Snippet and another opportunity to taste a bit of Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls. This week, I’m sharing a selection from Part II. This scene takes place when Emily and David are attending their first appointment for fertility treatments. “Just a quick pregnancy test, Emily. Shouldn’t take long.” Dr. Nathan Daley smiled at his new patient […]
Review: Twice A Target
Twice A Target by Susan Vaughan I started reading Twice a Target without realizing that I’d started at the end of this trilogy. That actually worked for me but I will go back to the beginning to read Never Surrender and Once Burned. I was attracted by the suspense premise of this novel as well […]
Writing: The Pleasure & the Bane II
The following are entries I began in a journal (handwritten in pencil) when my youngest was approaching 3 years of age. All the entries are in the ‘bane’ aspect but one has to wonder where the ‘pleasure’ comes from such as this? March 28 I do really want to be writing again but am having […]
Taste of Sunday in Salsa
This short selection from Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyl, Part I is for the Sunday Snippet Group on Facebook. This selection from the novel happens on a Sunday. I’m only allowed 10 sentences so if you want to read more, I’ve put the scene on my Books page: … Miguel stared up at the priest who laid his […]
Writing: The Pleasure & the Bane I
One day, and I have no distinct memory of when or where this happened, I decided I was going to be a writer. I had already gained a reputation in my family for “making up stories.” One of those “stories’ was actually true — there are foxes in Golden Gate Park (and coyotes by now). […]
Pen, Paper, Journal (re-post from Avalon Authors) with Addendum
Desperately seeking a lost manuscript (remember those, handwritten in ink, possibly on lined paper?), I came across a stack of my journals from years in college, traveling, first years of courtship and marriage. These journals – the diaries of old – have been replaced by digital explosions of shared communication in forms of blogs, tweets, […]