While at the RWA National Conference in New York at the end of June, I attended a media training workshop. The workshop concentrated on preparing yourself for interviews – particularly hostile interviews. The questions running through my head were: “Why do we have to defend our writing like this? Why is Romance under constant attack?” […]
More about Wait a Lonely Lifetime
Nurturing Pomegranate II
Between growing, nurturing and pruning pomegranate, this plant and I have had a turbulent 15 months. At the height of spring, I held my breath when no signs of green appeared. All the rest of the garden was blooming. I am rarely hasty with my decisions to abandon the potential of success so I let […]
Proliferation of Characters
I’m beginning revision work on Salsa Dancing today. After reading an article about the invasion of characters, I have some thinking to do. As I write, I allow free-reign (which can sometimes become a free rain) to my imagination and thought processes. This gives me the freedom to explore direction, characterization and the story itself. […]
My First Post for Avalon Authors
Today is my first opportunity to write for the Avalon Authors Blog. This will be a monthly contribution until the publication of my first novel for Avalon Books, Wait a Lonely Lifetime.
Compost
The natural world has a way of dealing with trash. Gardeners call it composting. Green warriors call it recycling. Publishers call it pulping. Writers call it so many different things, I can only list the a few of those I’ve heard recently: material, research, edited cuts, bits. What’s your way of dealing with the parts […]
Guest Blogging: 28 April 2011
I’ll be a guest at Four Foxes One Hound this coming Thursday, writing about how Wait a Lonely Lifetime developed from an idea to a soon-to-be-published novel. http://fourfoxesonehound.wordpress.com
Pruning Pomegranate II
Rich, fertile soil, a shining sun, chance encounters: these all add up to possibilities. But one day of sun isn’t enough to encourage the budding of a dormant bush. Most of my garden is budding, flowering, blooming and generally running over with life. My pomegranate is not. After a reminder that the pomegranate, in Armenian […]
Current Reads – April
The Long Good-Bye – Raymond Chandler. This is my introduction to Chandler’s novels and I’m hooked. I love it that I knew who the killer was before Philip Marlowe revealed the truth and why Terry Lennox did the noble thing. I’ve never been a fan of crime fiction, not since I read a P D […]
Wait a Lonely Lifetime: A Novel
My novel, Wait a Lonely Lifetime, is set in Firenze and San Francisco. “…a terrific romance.” At the end of this month, I will be a guest at Four Foxes One Hound and blogging about the process of ideas: what happens next? So many inspirations, so much time. This book grew from ideas over a […]