Posts Tagged ‘“Topsail Island”’
Podcast, 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 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 MoreThe Contest: Would You Like a Vacation on Topsail Isand?
I’m thrilled to unveil the contest we’ve been waiting for! A while back, I asked you, my blog readers, for ways I could celebrate my twenty year anniversary as an author with you. Frequent commenter, Glen Pierce, took the ball and ran with it! Glen lives on Topsail Island, North Carolina, the setting for Before the…
Read MoreTopsail Island, After the Storm
One of my readers, Donna Moffett, just sent me these pictures taken by her husband Dick. They show the northern end of Topsail Island after the last spate of storms. This is the string of houses I wrote about in Before the Storm — fictionalizing them of course. It’s so scary to see how quickly…
Read MoreBefore the Storm
Finally, June first, the actual release date for Before the Storm, is here (well, it will be tomorrow), so I thought I would share with you some of my thoughts about this book. The idea for Before the Storm initially came to me in two parts. I was thinking about a story idea involving a teenager who appears…
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