When I write, I like to have a few concrete images to provide “spark” for what I am trying to convey. Sometimes, these sparks help me to notice details that I wouldn’t have necessarily written. For example, in The Roaring Redwoods, the RiverWood Lodge and Casino is based on a …
It was a lot of fun to get to hire a book cover designer for The Roaring Redwoods and Kalen deserves an award for patience as I stumbled my way through the process. The photo we had was good. And Kalen found the backgrounds to use and used graphic design …
Episode Two of The Roaring Redwoods is out! And I wouldn’t be doing my capitalist, entrepreneur, publishing-is-a-business best if I didn’t tell you to buy it on Amazon, Nook, or Kobo. (You can get a Kindle app for your phone or computer too.) Okay, pitch over, where was I? This …
So I started writing many years ago and then got more serious. Then not so much. Then I said something to DH- probably when we were dating and I was trying to be show-offey because he’s so smart and talented- and I made it sound like I was a serious …
So my devil-may-care, martini-joking self hides a worrier. And of the assorted things I worry about, Alzheimer’s or some equally terrible disease sucking away my brain is one. I don’t know why I am preoccupied with this. It does not seem to me others are as concerned. My Great Grandmother …
(I’m going to do some posts on writing. Something I never thought I would sincerely blog about because there are SO many blogs out there about writing. But I figure- what’s one more? And- I have zero intention of providing anything remotely instructive. I intend my writing posts to be …