Story Weekend takes a Break
This has been a hard week. We lost our beautiful little Jet to cancer on Monday; he’d never even seemed sick until Sunday. A great shock for us, and Keeper is a little lost soul without his brother. I’m still in that painful “I can’t believe it” stage. Then Tuesday night, my email account was…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Six Months to Do Whatever You Want
This is pure fantasy, but if you didn’t have to worry about money or losing a job, how would you spend the next six months? It’s hard to free our brains that much from the constraints of our current lives, but I think this exercise can get to our real passions. I look forward to…
Read MoreMy 'Keeper of the Light' Wall
We just had new hardwood floors installed (yay!), so I’ve been spiffing up my office a bit and thought I’d share my ‘Keeper of the Light Wall’ with you. I used to have my book covers framed until there were so many covers that it was getting out of hand. I had a bunch of…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Nostalgia
I recently had to clean out my closets in preparation for installing hardwood floors, and I came across a box of old slides. I sent them to an online company for digitizing. Wow, what a bunch of memories they brought back! Some painfully sad (people I’ve lost), some hysterically funny (my younger brother was a…
Read MoreStory Weekend is Back! "I Feel Rich When. . . "
Story Weekend fans, thanks for your patience while I finished my as-yet-to-be-titled 2013 book. I made my deadline and after this weekend, I’ll have finished my revisions. I have to say, I love this book! I hope you will, too. We’re on Topsail Island right now. The past couple of evenings, I’ve been writing on…
Read MoreLetting My Hair Down
For the past couple of years, nearly every time I put a picture of myself on my blog or Facebook, I get compliments on my hair. That’s been so nice, but I’ve been waiting for the right time to tell you all that it’s not my hair at all. I mean, I own it, but…
Read MorePart Three: A Conversation with Diane and Emilie
Emilie Richards and I have been chatting back and forth on our blogs for the past week. This is the third of four installments. Hope you’re enjoying our conversation! Be sure to comment for a chance to win one of our books. Emilie will give away Sunset Bridge and I’ll give away Summer’s Child to randomly selected commenters on…
Read MoreEmilie and I Continue our Conversation on her Blog
Hop over to Emilie’s blog where we’ll continue our conversation and leave a comment there for a chance to win one of our books. We’ll be back here on my blog on Monday. Have a great weekend!
Read MoreA Conversation with Emilie and Diane
Emilie Richards, one of my best friends as well as one of my favorite authors, is going to join me for a chat on our blogs. To celebrate Emilie’s new book, One Mountain Away, we decided to have a conversation about characters—specifically characters who might not be all that sympathetic, at least not at first…
Read MoreStory Weekend: Shoes
Are you one of those women whose closet isn’t big enough to hold all your shoes? Or are you like me, limited to one pair of shoes because your feet are a mess? Did your dog chew up your best shoes before your hot date or did you break a heel as you got up…
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