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On writing and life, with a little chocolate thrown in from time to time.

#SizzlingSummerReads

5/31/2017

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The Romance Reviews and a whole lot of authors (including yours truly) are partying all month!
​There will be contests and prizes daily, and you can enter to win a $50 Amazon gift card for all your summer reading fun.
​You're invited, of course. So get out the beach chair, slather on some suntan lotion, and drop by often for your chances to win.
TRR Sizzling Summer Reads
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#Snaps Monson Village

5/16/2017

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A wonderful hike with friends, a gorgeous spring day, and a new phone with a better camera than I've had before led to these pictures. 
​I'm so grateful to live in a place where woodland hikes like this are an easy car ride and walk away.
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Cover Update The Lilac Hour #amwriting #reads

5/10/2017

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As some of you know, I'm going do-it-yourself with republishing The Lilac Hour. To that end, I've updated the cover just a tad. The photo is the same one used on the original cover. It's a picture of  Hendrick's Head Lighthouse by Alex Kerney.
​I'm hoping to have these three short stories out again at Amazon as an e-book on June 1.
​Meantime, there's more on the stories, including a short excerpt, on The Lilac Hour page.
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A Path in the Dark Wood

5/8/2017

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The Dante quote above could be changed to ‘in the middle of my writing journey’ and it would be a perfect way to describe the last year or so of my writing life. 
Like in most things, opportunities come and then pass away again. I’ve spent a long time writing and publishing and trying to get a toe hold into the slippery slope of book sales.  The upside—I love writing, I love making stories, I could no more stop than I could stop breathing. The downside—publishing is hard. Sometimes, from my end of things, it seems like there are more books than there are people to read them. When one of my publishers, the one who’d been pubbing my women’s fiction, shut down for lack of sales, I felt disheartened. I was lost in a dark wood, metaphorically speaking. 
It’s taken me a long time, but I’m finally taking another first step into pub world. I’m re-releasing The Lilac Hour, the short story trilogy that first got me noticed by publishers. It had gotten a few scant good reviews in it’s former life. Here’s hoping the resurrection will be a success.
The other part of Dante’s quote resonates with me, too. The path forward is never straight. Sometimes it feels as though I’m walking in circles. But if I can distance myself and really look, I notice those circles are concentric. Each a little bigger than the last, each encompassing a bigger piece of life. My life, both writing and personal, expands. Like the universe. May it always be so.
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    This writing journey, this life,  is a long road full of pitfalls and wrong turns. Also, incredible beauty, kindness and friendship with those I've met along the way.I'm so glad you're here to share the road..


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