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It’s My Birthday!

New author, Uncategorized | Posted by admin
Jul 07 2011

It’s my birth­day today. I’m sev­en­ty years old and feel­ing good about it. It’s been a remark­able sev­en­ty years. I’ve been places, done neat things, had three great careers.  Now in my sev­en­ti­eth year I can say I have a pub­lished a book and am work­ing on my sec­ond nov­el.  Life is still interesting.

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The Baby is Delivered—The Book is Published

Fiction writing, New author, new book, Romance genre, Uncategorized, World War II | Posted by admin
Feb 21 2011

My book Bat­tered Wings is now avail­able for down­load on the Whiskey Creek Press web­site. It has been like car­ry­ing a baby for nine months. The pain of the bur­den of nour­ish­ing the “child” with good words and edit­ing. The con­stant wor­ry about how the “baby” will turn out. Well, as with most child­births, the baby is healthy and well, and today I got con­fir­ma­tion of that when an old friend wrote to say the book was won­der­ful. I did a hap­py dance across the floor.

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A White Christmas in North Carolina

daylilies, Fiction writing, gardening, New author | Posted by admin
Dec 26 2010

The old year is almost gone but toward its end it has hand­ed  us a love­ly White Christmas.

It has been way too long since I last post­ed to this site so I need to update my life since the last post.

It has been a busy year with lots of gar­den work and work on short sto­ries and my newest nov­el.  With­in in the last three weeks I worked with my edi­tor from Whiskey Creek Press http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com, on the final edit on my book.  Now I am wait­ing to hear from the cov­er artist and then the book will be ready for it’s debut.

What an excit­ing time it is for me but what a won­der­ful sup­port sys­tem Whiskey Creek has for its authors in the form of email robin of oth­er authors.  There is a con­stant flow of ques­tions and infor­ma­tion back and forth between the more knowl­edge­able writ­ers and us newbies.

This past sum­mer was mis­er­ably hot and humid so our daylily gar­den suf­fered from lack of atten­tion.  Final­ly in the autumn we were able to get almost all the weeds out of it and had it trenched for good water runoff.

That’s about it for this time around.  I am deter­mined to do a bet­ter job of keep­ing up my blog and make it more interesting.

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Hello world!

Fiction writing, New author | Posted by admin
Feb 10 2010

Mother's Day 2010Wel­come to my writer’s world.  This is the home of a new author who is still try­ing to find her way through the fog of man­u­scripts, pub­lish­ers and agents.  I have just com­plet­ed my first nov­el and am about to send it out into the harsh world of reality.

It’s scary.  I’ve nur­tured this sto­ry for a long time.  I’ve lived with it, argued with it and rewrit­ten it numer­ous times.  Even now when I reread it I find some­thing that I have goofed up or not clar­i­fied.  One won­ders if it will ever be fin­ished in my mind.

I would like to take the time to thank Celine Rose Mar­i­ot­ti for her help in edit­ing the man­u­script and for her encour­age­ment — espe­cial­ly for her encour­age­ment.  Thanks Love for your support.

I also thank the nice peo­ple in my writ­ing work­shops for their input and suggestions.

Final­ly, I thank my son for help in set­ting up this web­site and my hus­band for his moral sup­port and edit­ing help.  Thank you, thank you.

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