This is a brilliant day. May 6th, post Cinco de Mayo recuperation, a Friday I hope to fill with more sunny moments. I’m writing a weekly blog post on different subjects important to being challenged as a writer. Follow me along on this journey every Friday from now until they come to take me away.…
A wonderful weekend began with a book signing author event at Watermark Book Co. in Anacortes, Washington, my hometown bookstore. I couldn’t have been happier since Hark—A Christmas Collection is my very first book with Booktrope, a new kind of hybrid book publisher that a friend recommended to me after one of this year’s more…
I have neglected A Writer’s Life blog too much over the past month or two since the Green Darner Press version of Sandcastle and Other Stories was published. “Put the book down already, and grab my tennis ball—now!” Even Kipling and Zippy are starting to wonder about my priorities. All the pets, Ajax the Gray…
Okay, I am about to decompress from packing packing packing away all of the house belongings, and moving into a temporary shelter. Next year, I’m talking to you 2013, please try to be a bit more balanced? Please. Here, Kipling and Zippy snooze out of the way while the movers approach from down the all…
The Brand New Spanking Kipling & Zippy Report: 1st Spring Goose Patrol Kipling turned six months this month of March and she’s almost half Zippy’s size and all sweet charm with a feisty side. Yes you can see Kipling here after she’s chased the two Canadian geese away from the pond . . . tongue…