Please Welcome Maureen Sherbondy to the Blog
I invited my friend and fellow author, Maureen Sherbondy, to post on my blog today. When I first moved to North Carolina, I continued my habit of writing at Starbucks. One day I noticed a beautiful woman sitting at a nearby table. She’d type a little, then stare into space, then type a little more.…
Read MoreRedRoom Picks My Video as Video of the Week!
Wow, this is so nice! RedRoom.com, which is a community of readers and published authors, selected one of my writing videos as its video of the week. I’m so pleased, and pleased for John as well, since he produced it (he also produced my video for Secrets She Left Behind. You can see all my…
Read MorePodcast, Newsletters, Kindle and Song
I played around with this title until I liked the rhythm of it. A more apt subject heading might be “miscellany”, but that doesn’t have much of a ring to it. So here we go! Podcast: One of my neighbors, high-schooler Kelly Williamson, had to create a podcast for a school assignment and she asked if…
Read MoreA Few More Topsail Island Party Pix
With my honey, John. So rare for him to be in front of the camera rather than behind it! With some of the guests–Mike and Linda Hendricks and Sandy Sly. Everyone on Topsail Island looks so tanned and healthy. It’s clear that beach living agrees with…
Read MoreThe Excellent Topsail Island 20 Year Anniversary Party!
John and I just got home from our weekend on Topsail Island. I’ll add more pictures soon, but for now I wanted to share a bit about the party. To recap, at the beginning of the year I asked…
Read MoreWhy I'm Tweeting
The short answer is: I don’t know. The long answer probably has something to do with human psychology. Or, as in the title of my long-ago college textbook, Abnormal Psychology. I don’t really care. What I can say about Twitter after three days of tweeting is…
Read MoreTopsail Island Contest Ends; New Contest Begins
Well, this contest was such fun, and so many of you were in the running with the correct answers from Before the Storm. Here they are: What was the name of Jamie’s church? Free Seekers. We also accepted Free Seekers Church or Chapel. Who was Jamie’s nemesis on Topsail Island? We accepted either Reverend Bill…
Read MoreOh My Gosh!
Well, this is so cool. I was searching back through my old blog for a particular entry and stumbled across this one. Check it out to see “me” a bit more than a year ago. I blogged about how, as I wrote ’round the clock, all I did was sit in front of the computer and stuff…
Read MoreScreenwriting Tips for Novelists
I belong to an organization called Novelists, Inc., whose mission it is to provide multi-published novelists with information and support. It’s a great organization. Recently on the NINC email loop, one of the long-published members pondered what those of us who’ve been writing forever had to learn from writing workshops. The answer, of course, is that we…
Read MoreGoing Crazy
The contest continues! Win a vacation on Topsail Island and help me celebrate my 20 years as an author by clicking here to learn more. You may enter once a day. Yes, it’s that time of year when I start to lose my marbles. It always happens around now, three months before deadline. Deadlines are always challenging,…
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