Five New Blogs

by | Feb 22, 2010 | Writing

This award came from L.A. DeVaul. She’s committed herself to five years of yoga. Everyday. In her own unique and insightful way she’s blogging about her journey. She’s also a soon to be published author. Her novel Roxanne in La La Land (A love...

Stilted Dialogue

by | Feb 16, 2010 | Writing

Over the last two weeks an anonymous soul took pity on my emerging writing skills. Anon dissected my writing sample and offered up invaluable expertise for which I’m very grateful. Anon criticized my dialogue this way. “It needs to be natural. This is not...

Some Answers and Go Vote

by | Feb 2, 2010 | Writing

Little questionnaire that got passed onto me by Krista Lynne Jensen. Rules: Answer the following questions with Single Word answers then pass this along to 5 other bloggers. Make sure you let them know about it though. Your Cell Phone? None Your Hair? Dry Your...

Laundry, My Writing Inspiration

by | Jan 29, 2010 | Musings, Writing

Early Tuesday morning the power went out here for about an hour. My computer never regained consciousness. My miracle-working husband took it apart and reconnected it to his computer and recovered most of my files, but none of the children’s. Like my son’s...

Hashbrown Winters and the Mashimoto Madness

by | Dec 21, 2009 | Writing

Good news! Frank’s sequel to The Adventures of Hashbrown Winters is in stores now. Hashbrown Winters and the Mashimoto Madness was originally scheduled to be released January 11. This would be a great Christmas present for an elementary school-aged child. My...

WINNER–Book Giveaway: Stolen Christmas

by | Nov 30, 2009 | Writing

AND THE WINNER IS……… #6 Chas Hathaway eating Yogananny Pancakes on Christmas Morning. Hey–I don’t even have to mail it–we both win. (special thanks to Random.org) Stolen Christmas What happens when you’re so poor you have to steal...