Pearlie Blue and Me

Adoption Day for Pearlie Blue

So, she isn’t blue. She is a brown tiger with a tail that looks like it should be on a raccoon. Her name was Samoa, but I didn’t like that. I wanted to name her something that would be dear to my heart so I chose Pearlie Blue after the title of a bluegrass song […]

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First Edits Done

The first round of edits are done on the manuscript I’m working on for Ambassador International. It feels good and bad at the same time. Good because I’m glad I’m done. Bad because I know I have more work to do. I need to read through the story in one sitting–76,000 words and edit as […]

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Zetta’s Mark by Sandra Aldrich Book Review

Zetta’s Mark by Sandra Aldrich is a story about a Kentucky widow woman’s quest to raise her young family, fend off would-be, oh-so-wrong-for-her suitors and survive day by day after returning home without her husband who was killed in a coal mining accident. Sandra Aldrich weaves a sometimes heart-wrenching, always triumphant story. She is a […]

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Getting Ready

I’m getting ready for big things in 2020. I made a shopping list of foods on sale this week and next so when I start my life program with MWLC I will be ready. I submitted the about me, dedication, author marketing questionnaire, manuscript, head shot portrait and W9 to Ambassador International Jan. 2. Now […]

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Email to John Morra American Realism Painter

Good morning John! I had a wonderful night waking, thinking about your art, falling back asleep and dreaming of it. Your art makes me happy waking or sleeping. This painting (a group of books in disarray) stands out to me as well as the “Tomato Ensemble”. I am a writer. Books, pens and paper are […]

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Writing life

So I’ve been struggling with writer’s block for months. March 22, 2018, I lost my muse, my mother. It was for her that I wrote. Now I’ve been sucked into the void that is writer’s block and am wallowing in its darkened passageways. I need to find another reason to write. I just feel so […]

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NEORWA Conference

I’m here in Ohio for the North East Ohio Romance Writers of America conference where I will pitch two books to an editor and an agent. I’m excited by the prospect of telling them what I have and seeing if they would like to take a look. I am also working on two works in […]

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