THINK AND GROW RICH…if I must!

Maybe you’re familiar with oh…say…pretty much every self help book out there designed to help you do what you love for a living and be both financially and creatively successful, or maybe not. But either way, it is often believed that Napoleon Hill...

The work before the party…

If you’ve been following my blog, you will know that my life has been an alternating pattern of writing and painting. I write for a while, then I paint some more of the interior of our new house. Well, we’ve been here six months now and the kitchen and...

I’m about to surface again!

Well, I did it. I just sent my critique group my new revision. Now I wait for their brilliance and insight, do another (hopefully not too long) pass through, and send the book off to my agent. Wahoo! And just to add a little icing to the cake, I got an email the other...

RULES and THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS

RULES by Cynthia Lord – I can’t remember who mentioned this book on their blog, but boy am I glad they did! As you know, I’m not always a big Middle Grade fan, but this one rocks! My husband always calls me a rule follower, so he probably thinks...

The home stretch…

I’m in the home stretch of this revision so if I disappear for a week or so, make sure you come back again! I will, I promise. And I’ll be updating Need To Read too, so stop by there. Happy writing (or whatever it is you do that makes you happy)!