Yes, I am a NaNoWriMo winner! I wrote 51, 246 words in November (National Novel Writing Month). Let me tell you, it wasn’t easy. There were days when I really didn’t want to write, but I needed to do this. The…
Me and my writing life
A blog about books, my ideas and what I've learned as I live life as a writer.
Yearly Archives: 2012
#NaNoWriMo winner!
Tagged with: books, Fiction, Holidays, National Novel Writing Month, novel writing, November, Thanksgiving, writing
Posted in New stuff
Posted in New stuff
What’s on my bookshelf from my grandfather?
I apologize to those of you who follow my blog for not posting as regularly last month. I took a break from posting because, two weeks ago, my grandfather passed away. He would have been 79 on November 29. It’s…
Tagged with: books, English, Fiction, Grandparent, Hunt for Red October, Literature, Memorials, National Geographic, Social Sciences, Sum of All Fears, thriller novels, Tom Clancy, tom clancy novel, writing
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Marketing and PR on your own as an author
One of the things that has bothered me since I started my journey of being a writer and author is how to market my book to an audience when I’m virtually unknown. Beyond my small hometown and my circle of…
Tagged with: Author, author tips, Book, David Meerman Scott, E-book, New Rules of Marketing, New Rules of Marketing and PR, Public relations, social-media, writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
Posted in Writing tips
What’s on my bookshelf? 11-9-12
I’m currently reading the book Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier (and loving it), and that got me thinking that I hadn’t written a “What’s on my bookshelf?” post in a while. So today I will be talking about the books by…
Tagged with: Book, bookshelf, Daughter of the Forest, irish mythology, Juliet Marillier, Literature, love story, Marillier, Shadowfell, son of the shadows
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Posted in On My Bookshelf
Cover art for sequel to “Into Fire”
In honor of #WriterWednesday, or #WW, I am excited to show you all a sneak peak at the new cover for the sequel to my first novel. Over Water is the second novel in my planned trilogy about Leora, the…
Tagged with: Author, books, Debut novel, Fiction, Leora, novel, Sequel, writing
Posted in My Favorite Things
Posted in My Favorite Things
Me and NaNoWriMo
Yes, I will be one of the many participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, for those of you who aren’t writers) this month. This is the spur I’m going to use to get the third novel of my trilogy…
Posted in Writing tips
Suspenseful, Thinking Movie. Who knew?
On Monday, my husband and I sat down to watch a scary movie. It’s Halloween time, and it was the only day we had nothing planned in the evening. We had narrowed it down to two: The Grey with Liam…
Tagged with: Biel, drama, entertainment, Horror film, Jessica Biel, movie review, Tall Man, thinking movie
Posted in Intrigues, Movies
Posted in Intrigues, Movies
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