Imagine watching your spouse go from perfect health to total dependence on you for everything. That’s what happened to Delores Warner. Her husband, who had always been in control, was diagnosed with ALS, and he made her promise she wouldn’t put him in a nursing home. She not only took care of him, but also of their small farm with Continue reading
I’ve been talking about Banana Scrabble a few times now. If you look for it in the stores, it’s actually called Bananagrams. However, I looked for it in every store I went to and could never find it, so I finally ordered it from Amazon. At the same time, I ordered the Official Scrabble Dictionary, and it arrived today. We’re in business! Continue reading
Way back in the beginning when I was first writing this blog, I was editing a book for a first-time writer, Delores Warner. I have asked her to keep me posted on her progress since I finished with her, and she recently told me her book is being published. I asked her if she would write a guest blog about the process she’s been through, and she has. Here is Delores’ post: Continue reading
We have 12 days before we leave, so things are a little mad around here, but I came across something last night I thought I’d talk about briefly. As I have become familiar with web comics recently, I keep seeing the word “Woah!” It has Continue reading
The Northwest Association of Book Publishers recently had Shanelle R. Boyd, an attorney, come and talk about copyright. I have had clients ask me questions about copyright, so I contacted Ms. Boyd and asked her if I could share her notes on my web site. She Continue reading
Yesterday I wrote about the talk Lisa Nowak gave at the SCBWI picnic on June 23rd. Today I’m going to share the resources she shared. All of them come from a list she put together, and other than any typos on my part (of which there are hopefully none!), she is responsible for the content:
Yesterday I attended my first SCBWI event; an indoor picnic! There was time at the beginning and the end for networking, but most of the meeting was a talk given by Lisa Nowak. She is an author who is self-publishing a series of books about boys and stock cars. Her whole talk was a comparison of different publishing methods. She gave the Continue reading
Neil Gaiman gave his words of wisdom to the University of the Arts class of 2012. The words are relevant to anyone doing creative work, and so I share them here with you. (Just click on Neil’s name above.) The vimeo is 19:55 minutes long, but well worth the Continue reading
This morning after church, I was making myself a cup of hot chocolate, and somewhere nearby, I heard a conversation going. At first I thought it was someone describing a movie they’d seen or a book they’d read, and I wasn’t paying a lot of attention. But then I heard Continue reading
I had a 45 minute call with my business mentor, Elge Premeau, today. She was very pleased with my web site and my blog. She’s going to try to help Jamey (my technical administrator) figure out how to make this an RSS feed so I won’t have to e-mail everyone Continue reading