Bless me, Father! It’s been a couple days since my last post!

My posts may be rather sporadic during the month of July as we get ready to move.  We had a garage sale last weekend, but didn’t sell as much as we’d hoped to, so we’re going to have another garage sale this weekend.  We’re still looking for homes for our cats.  We’re sorting through what to put in storage and what to get rid of and what will fit in our Continue reading

Final notes from the SCBWI picnic

My last two posts have been notes from Lisa Nowak’s talk at the SCBWI.  I took some of my own notes from her talk too.  A spare tidbit for you writers is that you don’t have to stick with one way of publishing.  You can self-publish and get picked up by a traditional publisher, as Christopher Paolini did.  (He wrote the Inheritance series; a fantasy Continue reading

My other job

My husband, Mark, returned from his last run as a long haul trucker on Monday.  I chose to become a freelance proofreader/copy editor so that I could be free to be with him in whatever the future holds.  We have a phone interview tomorrow morning with an organization where we’d be traveling around the country together.  We have also been Continue reading

Don’t buy too many green bananas

Yesterday I finished up with the book I’ve been editing for Delores Warner.  She’s written a memoir about the 18 months she spent taking care of her husband, Vern, after he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).  It’s her first book, but she’s doing everything right.  She has shown it to some of the people who walked through that journey with her Continue reading

My next assignment

I had a teleconference with my business mentor, Elge Premeau, today.  I told her about all the authors I’ve connected to on Twitter since I spoke with her last week.  She said, “Well, those would be your end users, but you need to research publishing houses.”  She suggested I turn my Twitter list into individual lists that people can follow if they want, so Continue reading

My laptop wish list

I think it’s been about a year since I had a laptop.  When mine died I couldn’t afford to get a new one.  (I don’t use credit cards!)  I have been saving for one, and I have enough saved up now to buy one.  I’ll need one to take with me when Mark and I take our act on the road.  I’ve been giving some thought to what features I’d like my new laptop to have, and here is Continue reading

Many Windows On the World

My husband, Mark, is a long haul trucker.  He has been in nearly all the lower 48 states with the exception of a few in the NE corner of the country.  He’s seen all sorts of beautiful sights and had many adventures.  Wherever he goes he takes a camera, and he’s always ready to shoot something spectacular or interesting.  He took the picture I’m using for my Continue reading