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). […]
If You’re Going to Read Anything …
About Entrepreneurial Publishing read Kristen Lamb’s latest blog: http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2013/06/28/the-democratization-of-publishing-independence-is-scary/. Kristen’s post puts this burgeoning industry into perspective for anyone who hasn’t yet taken this step and for those of us who have — more fuel for our fires!
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 These journals – the diaries of old – have been replaced by digital explosions of shared communication in forms of blogs, tweets, […]
Read an Ebook Week Promotion
Eres Books has enrolled my novels in the Read an eBook Week from Sunday, March 3, 2013. The first two stories of the Nights Before series and Salsa Dancing with Pterodactyls, Part I are on offer. Also Following the Troops, Life for an Army Wife 1941-1945 is included. Just search for the book’s page and the discount code will […]
Writing Ambitions (reposted from Avalon Authors)
I must have been all of three when I told my first story. Those few babbled words started an addiction I’ve never been able to shake, no matter how often I told myself that writing was not going to happen. No matter how often someone else told me not to be ridiculous. No matter who […]
Nights Before: New Serial
I’m beginning my new serial with ‘Twas the Night Before New Year, inspired by the children’s poem by Clement C. Moore and a personal experience. As you may know, the legend is that Clement Clarke Moore wrote A Visit from St. Nicholas on Christmas Eve, 1822 on a sleigh ride home from Greenwich Village. His inspiration […]