3 months from today!!

What my life looks like these days (although imagine more cardboard boxes and dust. Lots of dust.) A few days ago I was cleaning out stacks and drawers of papers (writers have LOTS of random stacks of paper hanging around) and I found my very first draft of The Hideaway! It was like finding an…

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How It All Went Down

Everyone knows the process of publishing a book is a long slog. Even I know that and I’m still at the bottom of the hill. Maybe a few steps up from the bottom, but significantly closer to the bottom than I am to the top. I always like to read about how a person goes…

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Synopsis II

Another day, another post about the synopsis. I just this minute stopped myself from disappearing into the deep dark galaxy of over-googling. I’ve searched for just about every combination of words I can come up with to try to figure out this synopsis thing–more specifically a synopsis for a book with two timelines. I’m sure my…

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Update on THE HIDEAWAY and a few notes about home

THE HIDEAWAY (no longer working title–this one has stuck) is rocking along. I’m now in my third fiction workshop and the experience has been so valuable. Through discussion with this class several months ago, I decided to make a pretty big overhaul in the manuscript. I didn’t change the story or characters, but I am…

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More Than a Year Later

So, I’m not a blogging expert. I just wrote an entire post and deleted it. Sigh. It’s been more than a year since I last wrote here. I didn’t exactly forget about the blog, I just didn’t have (or make) time to write in it. That’s because a month after my last post, I began…

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