Today is the first working day in California when I’ve been unemployed as a Workamper. Mark has this week left to work and then we have a couple weeks to get packed up and head to Oregon for several weeks. So I’ve spent today doing research for my editing business and working on my web site. Continue reading
Please welcome Susan Hornbach, an author/writer of children’s literature. I met Susan on LinkedIn and she seemed to have some good advice for writers who want to publish, so I asked her to write a guest blog for my web site. She did so in the form of an interview: Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have a friend named Jared Souza who has been working on the illustrations for a comics miniseries called Sparrow & Crowe. His wife, Jade, is one of my best friends. They have three children, and the family is about to go to California for the summer to spend time with relatives.
My current client recently told me that she used to want to write children’s books, and now that she has written a book for adults, she doesn’t think she wants to write any more books. Here is food for inspiration: