I love book fairs and festivals. They have two of my favorite things in life – people and books. Well, maybe I shouldn’t say people are things, but you get the idea. Book fairs are places where most everybody who is in the place has a love for books. That’s why they are there – unless, of course, they were …
Plotting a Beginning
Time to Begin Again. How to begin? How do you begin anything that must be done? A long journey – by taking the first step. An unpleasant chore – by grabbing the mop or hammer or paintbrush or whatever tool is necessary to get started. A novel – by discovering the character or event that will push you to the …
Country Living is the Life
You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl!!Okay, here I am trying on my fancy smancy dress before taking off for the ACFW Conference last week. My necklace is glittering. I’m practicing my smile – squinting a bit since my husband insisted I had to look into the sun. …
Writers, Writers, and More Writers
Wow! What a week! Writers, writers, and more writers all in one place. ~~ I did my very first writers conference in June last summer when I taught a couple of classes at the Kentucky Christian Writers Conference here in the state. And then last weekend I was off to my first national writers conference – the ACFW Conference. That’s …
Off to the ACFW Conference
Hi, everybody. No time for blogging this week with the National Quartet Convention and now I’m off to the ACFW Conference. Next week I’ll be back on schedule – I hope. I’ll tell you all about what’s been going on. Have a great week.
Grandparents Day
Today is National Grandparents Day. President Carter proclaimed the first Sunday after Labor Day to be Grandparents Day in 1978. The history I read says the day originated with a Fayette County, WV housewife, Marian McQuade whose primary motivation was to promote the need to pay attention to lonely elderly people in nursing home. She also hoped having a special …
Predictable Unhappy Endings
I just finished reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I love dogs so this seemed a natural for me. And I did enjoy the dog parts of the story. I liked lots of parts of the story. But some of it had me wondering not just about the story, but about me. Now if you’re going to read this book, …
Crossroads in Writing
I’ve been thinking about crossroads since I’m trying redo my cover for Angels at the Crossroads. So I’ve been looking at pictures of crossroads and road signs while trying to decide what’s best for Jerry’s story. Someone suggested a new title might be best, but some things can’t be redone. Too many people have already bought the book titled as …
TTYL and other Text Letter Mysteries
I’m a little nervous about doing this post. SIMB (Shaking in my boots) because I think I’ve had TMB (too many birthdays) to come up with all these shortcuts in the world of texting. See the picture. That’s where I am. Using quills and paper. Actually I’ve advanced all the way up to ballpoint pens and paper. You know the …
A New Book Cover
Have you ever put something off that you needed to do? Over and over again? For almost a year now I’ve been planning to give my book, Angels at the Crossroads a cover make-over. Angels at the Crossroads is the only non-fiction book I’ve ever written and probably will be the only non-fiction book I’ll ever write. I like making …