For the past four years, Barry and I have taken an annual winter writing retreat. It helps us reconnect with our writing projects—and with each other. We’ve come to really look forward to these. This year, we chose a cute boutique hotel near the Indiana Dunes, one of our favorite places, though we usually visitContinue reading “Hooray for Writing Retreats”
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In The Shadow of Rainbows: A Collection of Songs of Presence by Selma Martin
Dear Readers, Today I am so honored to share an interview with a great friend of this blog and a woman whose poetry I admire very much. Her collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows, has been out for a few months now, and I’m sorry to have waited so long to tell you about it.Continue reading “In The Shadow of Rainbows: A Collection of Songs of Presence by Selma Martin”
Adventures in Chaotic Home Improvement
This is the story of how my accidental writing hiatus turned into an accidental home improvement extravaganza. But first, a couple of pieces of great news. One, Southern-Fried Woolf is a Semi-Finalist (to date) in Literary Fiction, The Best of Indie, 12th Annual Kindle Book Awards. Huzzah! The second is something I’ve been waiting forContinue reading “Adventures in Chaotic Home Improvement”
Life After Your Favorite Café Closes
I was incredibly honored to be a guest fiction editor for The Louisville Review’s fall/winter 2022 issue, available now. Please consider supporting this journal that has provided publication for so many stories over the years, including my first published fiction back a decade or so ago. The quality of material in it is top notch, and I reallyContinue reading “Life After Your Favorite Café Closes”
“Because He Knew the Song”
Only one more day of celebrating my virtual book tour left. If you’d like to win a copy of my book or a bookshop.org gift card, go here. Quick note: the café where I write is indeed closing. There are seven more days to visit it, and I told them I will be here everyContinue reading ““Because He Knew the Song””
Figure of Eight
When I told my daughter that I feel freer having this novel out in the world, no longer struggling to decide what it wants to be because it just is, she asked what I feel freer to do now. What a marvelous question! I told her I want to think on that. Obviously, novel numberContinue reading “Figure of Eight”
Let’s Talk About V.!
Welcome back to the blog tour. Here’s today’s link. Thank you to One More Exclamation. In today’s news, my favorite café, the place where I’ve written many stories and parts of both of my novels, may be closing permanently due to ongoing staffing shortages. I’m writing from there today, trying to wrap my mind aroundContinue reading “Let’s Talk About V.!”
It’s All Relative
Welcome back to my blogging marathon, LOL! Here’s a link to today’s share. Don’t forget to go enter those giveaways! Yesterday Uncle Randy and Aunt Brenda, his wife, came in. He’s my dad’s only remaining sibling, and his youngest one, too. It was fantastic to see them and to give them autographed copies of myContinue reading “It’s All Relative”
Is February the new January? :-)
Hey, friends! I took yesterday off from blogging. It was a topsy-turvy weekend, so I worked from early in the morning until about 1 p.m. on a project yesterday, then cooked for the week and vegged the rest of the day. In the middle of my project, I apologized to my hubby and said IContinue reading “Is February the new January? :-)”
Day 11: “Parton” Me for Telling this Story…
Welcome to Day 11 of my virtual book tour! I’ll try to remember to supply the link for the day when it’s available. It means so much to me that these book lovers are sharing about Southern-Fried Woolf. I do have another story kin to Dolly Parton. My hubby had a regular Sunday afternoonContinue reading “Day 11: “Parton” Me for Telling this Story…”
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