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February and March have been busy book months for me with the release of Words Spoken True. The book went on a blog tour and has gotten over fifty reviews so far. Most have been very positive which is nice for this writer since the book is very different from my other recent books. You never know if readers are …
Do you remember these kind of sayings? “Yours til’ Ivory soup sinks.” Do you remember Ivory soap? It’s still on the store shelves and it still floats. So whoever wrote that promise in my little autograph book when I was a kid must still be mine. The autograph books were sort of a fad when I was in grade school. …
A lot of you know I’m a big basketball fan. And living in Kentucky, that means I bleed blue. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been listening to UK play basketball. Been through some exciting times with the Cats and some disappointing times. Right now, things are going well in the Big Blue Nation. We’ve got a good team …
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown I’m excited today about getting the first copy of my new release, Words Spoken True. I’ve had my ear tuned for the UPS truck to bounce into my driveway for several days now because I knew it was close …
What do you think of Jessamine here? I don’t often let my heroines have blonde hair. Mostly I want them to have dark hair or auburn hair. It goes back to when I was a kid and everybody was always talking about how cute the blue-eyed, blonde girls were. Me, I wasn’t blonde. Me, I had eyes that couldn’t make …
“Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.” (John Osborne – British playwright and producer 1929-1994) Last Wednesday I looked back at 2011. I think it’s good to take stock of where you’ve been but it’s even better to look ahead to where you’re going. A writer can hang onto the last story too long sometimes and not reach out for the new …
Image credit: jscreationzs For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. – T.S. Eliot 2012! That sounds so far into the future. Of course it isn’t. It’s actually the here and now. The first day of a new year. Each day will be a new page to write our own stories on. …
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry Thanksgiving is a …
One of the most exciting parts of getting a book published is seeing the cover that the publisher’s art department creates to represent your story. I really like the cover for my new book releasing in February. The girl looks like Adriane in the book and I love the city backdrop. The story is set in 1855 Louisville and I …
” And that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.” (Gertrude Stein) Words – the tools of a writer’s trade. Words tell your story. Words make your characters leap off the page and come to life. Words plunge those characters …