Vote for the Secret Lives e-book Cover (Scroll Down)
A. B. C. I’m experimenting! I plan to release my third book, Secret Lives, as an e-book. When people ask me which of…
Read MoreSneak Peek at the Cover for The Shadow Wife
The Shadow Wife, as those of you who’ve been following my blog for a while know, is the new title for Cypress Point. Cypress Point was originally published in 2002 and will be reissued in December. Even though my readers and I agree that it’s a mistake to change titles of older books, this is…
Read MoreFinished! (And a First and Fifth Draft Comparison)
I finished The Midwife’s Confession yesterday and John and I are going to see Wicked this evening to celebrate. Yeah! The last month of writing a book is sheer torture; there seems to be no way around it. Every time, I tell myself I’ll figure out a way to prevent that last month from…
Read MoreWordle Time!
I’ve completed draft four of The Midwife’s Confession (well except for the epilogue), so it’s time to see how it looks on Wordle! Wordle helps me see what words I’ve overused. Of course the character names (and there are a lot of them!) are all over the place. Noelle, front and center, is the midwife.…
Read MoreDup [doop]
The Midwife’s Confession is due a week from tomorrow, so if I blog this week at all, it will not be with anything profound! Right now I’m writing drafts three and four at the same time. Hard to explain, but that’s what I’m doing. (Keeper and Jet are helping me organize the mess of paper on the…
Read MoreThe Many Lives of CeeCee Wilkes
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes is back again, this time as a mass market (small-sized) paperback. Her cover is nearly identical to the trade paperback cover, which I’ve always loved. I’m so happy she’ll (yes, I think of this book as a ‘she’ instead of an ‘it’) have a chance to reach those readers…
Read MoreView from the Deck
Low Tide High Tide…Yikes!
Read MoreBookclub Bonding
I had such a treat this evening. I received an email a while back from a woman named Jodi who invited me to visit her bookclub. All the women in her club work at a preschool in Cary, NC, but they spend a weekend together on Topsail Island each year. It so happened they’re on…
Read MoreThe Joy of Third Drafts
Ah, Topsail Island. We just went out to dinner (shrimp and grits for John, shrimp scampi for me) and had a look at the sound on the way home. I snapped this picture with my phone. I’ve always loved how this particular house juts out into the water. The sun and sky were such an intriguing color. It…
Read MoreKnow When to Fold 'Em
Whoa, this is what I look like after a few weeks of working ’round the clock. Tired. John snapped this pic of me at Starbucks this morning while I was writing. He said “Give me a big smile!” and I thought I was. I think I’m fried! It’s always this way in the month before…
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