Being a starving artist in search of part-time work I found myself interviewing at the local grocery store this past spring. The manager asked about my writing career/trek toward publication before getting to the mandatory canned questions. First can out of the box: “Name a profession in which organization is key to the employee’s success.” I thought […]

I don’t want to say it’s done because of the editing that will transpire, but it’s going to my trusted beta readers. Yay!

I think it the neatest testament to American literature that the publication announcement of Lee’s second (albeit written first) novel was released to the world just as I’m helping my son cut his high school annotation teeth on To Kill A Mockingbird.  He plans to add the hardcover to his library.

Starting my research on Full Disclosure. All I know is the mystery will surround a resort in Carmel Valley Village.

Any writer has been there. Your weekly page goal is 125, you’re on page 110. It’s Wednesday afternoon. Nothing is working. Over the years I’ve used many methods to overcome this inevitable challenge such as “get moving” (walking my husky four miles for the second time that day) to “getting out” (watching two women get […]

It’s time once again to poke fun at myself. Whether it was auto correct or a flat out error, here are some of my latest, humorous type-os discovered while editing: I set new time records walking that day, headless to the rain. (Kind of hard to walk without a head . . .) She got […]