I am taking a different approach to writing about growing in a family that tried to survive the best we could, an alcoholic father, husband, who sometimes raged, and for many years, all I could remember of him was passed out in his chair or in bed (after the screaming ...
My day was so horrible before the Redwood Writer’s Conference on 4/26. In every possible way, I was shaken. With the support of my husband and friends, I pushed myself to go to this conference. I had planned to go for several months.
Am I glad I did! My day was totally lifted up — way up! And I want to share the top ten things I took away.
1. Novellas can be 30,000 words, Contemporary Romance 50-70,000 words. What difference could ...
Continue Reading →Nicky Young, heroine in Shadow Heart hates her body. She only wants to fit in, and she doesn’t, often getting looks from older men because of the curves of her body and a face that looks twenty-one. She struggles with insecurity and fears that relationships will only be temporary, even with her closest friends. Finally, she feels like she’s met women she can trust, two that are wives of the players on the professional baseball team, The San ...
Our lives are ultimately a love story, aren’t they?
We strive to move through and dodge the pain, keep it away, sometimes embrace it, and other times we swear, scream, lash out, beat another down, with words, fists . . . all to make us safe, our family safe, our friends . . . because we love them.
Or we fear them. Or we want them to fear us, or love us, or forgive us.
Do we love ourselves in the same way?
Do ...
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Hi readers, friends, interested guests!
Welcome to my first blog. I’ve just written and published my first book, Shadow Heart. But you’ve already figured that out.
Who am I? You may have even read my bio, but who I really am? Well, it’s layered. We’re all layered, right?
I’m a wife of my soul mate, a man I went after, when I never before cared about any ...
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