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An interview with…myself (part 2!)
Last week, I started a four-part interview series with the most interesting subject I've ever hosted on this blog. Myself. (Kidding, kidding.) This week, the questions get a little deeper, and sometimes I wonder what this crazy interviewer was thinking. 🙂 11. When...
Family Resemblance: like grandsire, like grandson…
In researching the history of Polish Arabians for my current manuscript, I dug into the lineage of my own baby. See what I found! (and realize there's a difference between my photography and the professional shots...) Do you see the family resemblance? Here is my...
Rules. Rules. Rules.
This discussion (argument) comes up every so often among the writer folks. The "rules" of writing. Do this...don't do this...you'll never get published if you do this... Well - let this post put it all to rest - it is a post by Wendy Lawton of Books and Such from a...
Clinging-to-memories-of-summer Monday
The rain is here. And it is here to stay for the next seven to eight months. Really, I don't mind the darker days and the damp weather. I'm a Pacific Northwesterner to the core. But today, I'm lingering, thinking of the sunny days and clinging on. Here are some fun...
An interview with…Me! Part One
Remember those old chain emails that went around and you'd share your favorite color, all those other fun tidbits? Well, I'm going to do a bit of that here. But I found this list of questions to do a good profile interview, and I thought, "Wow, I bet I couldn't even...
Resurrecting an old friend
By old friend, I mean an old manuscript. (What exactly did you think I meant?)Â I've mentioned before the "Story" behind my first real manuscript. I've taken this story out, dusted it off and I'm going to give it another go. Now, I've taken this story out and...
Review: Nightingale
Nightingale Esther Lange doesn’t love her fiancé—she’s trapped in an engagement after a mistaken night of passion. Still, she grieves him when he’s lost in battle, the letters sent to her by the medic at his side giving her a strange comfort, so much that she strikes...
We don’t have to have it all together. Really.
I'm a perfectionist. A bit of a neat freak. An over-analyzer. So when I dive into something, I dive all the way. For writing, I took classes, read blogs, joined writers groups, attended conferences, wrote my little fingers off, social network-ed, created a website,...
Review: Love Finds you In Homestead, Iowa
Description: Times are hard in 1894. Desperate for work, former banker Jacob Hirsch rides the rails west from Chicago with his four-year-old daughter, Cassie. When a life-threatening illness strands the pair in Homestead, Iowa, the local Amana villagers welcome the...
Congratulations to ACFW winners
2011 Genesis Winners Contemporary Fiction Katy Pistole Contemporary Romance Mary Curry Historical Fiction Johnnie Alexander Donley Historical Romance Sarah Ladd Mystery/Suspense/Thriller Dianna T. Benson Romantic Suspense Renee Ann Smith Speculative Fiction Matt Jones...