This article was posted a few months before I moved from Wales, where I’d continued my writing and became a founding member and director of a women’s co-operative publishing company, Honno. September 23, 2011 I’m in the process of clearing 30 years of accumulated essentials. Besides all the accumulation related to family and friends, I […]
How to Handle A Romance Writer – Repost
Three weeks after the Romance Writers of America National Conference in New York, I wrote this article for Avalon Authors, July 23, 2011 The romance genre in commercial, popular fiction has been attracting considerable criticism in recent months. Most of that has been directed at the more risqué end of the romance spectrum but the […]
Bright Lights, Big City: Big Thanks – Repost
On June 23, 2011, I published this article as a tribute to two people who were instrumental in my determination to become a writer. I will soon be on my way to the publishing Big Apple, New York City, USA. Though this will not be my first visit, this will be my first opportunity to experience this city […]
Concept to Contract – Repost
Below is my first article on Avalon Authors on May 23, 2011. Avalon is no more and some of us are forming a new group blog at Classic & Cosy. I hope you will join us there. These are my blogs for the original Avalon Authors group blog. Over the next few months, any article title […]
Anticipation 101
If you’ve ever traveled with children, you have a good sense of what anticipation means. “Are we there yet?” repeated a gazillion times from the moment the car door is shut at the front door of your house until either they are worn out or your destination is reached. Anticipation is that state of excitement […]
Wait a Lonely Lifetime @ Florey’s Book Co.
The great independent bookstore, Florey’s Book Company, in Pacifica, CA has Wait a Lonely Lifetime in stock and I will be there on October 20th to talk about how the book came about, discuss writing and publishing. There will be a reading from the book and actors’ recordings of Sylviana’s and Eric’s first letters to […]
Wait a Lonely Lifetime: To Readers
Now that Wait a Lonely Lifetime has reached its 90th day on the market and is now in the hands of Amazon Publishing, I want to thank all of the readers who have contacted me since the book’s release in April. I have received wonderful comments and support from so many, I’m overwhelmed and sincerely appreciate […]
Meet the Author at Avalon
Rebecca Boschee’s interview with me has now been posted at Avalon Authors’ Blogspot. Hope you enjoy it. Rebecca asked some thought-provoking and searching questions. You may comment at the Avalon Authors’ blog or here. I will respond. Thank you.
Where is Sonya now?
Avalon Authors’ Online Novel continues with a chapter to get the heroine out of rain-soaked Seattle. On a promise from Stan, she finds a bit of sun. Read the next (my) installment at: Avalon Authors’ Online Novel: Along for the Ride.
A Long Time Coming
In honor and memory of all those who have given their lives in the cause of freedom, I wanted to say ‘Thank you’. My generation, and those generations before mine and too many of those now and in the future, have and will live through decades of war. Some of those wars were justified but […]