I’m not a big fan of surgery. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been fond/grateful to a few surgeons for their profound talent in keeping me going. Another, my son, remains close to my heart because he’s my kid. But after more than my fair share of slicing and dicing, surgery falls into the same category as dental treatment […]
“The End” such sweet words!
Can it be real? It feels impossible after so many months – has it been twenty already? So much crazy time has been spent writing, researching, revising, editing, soul-searching and binge eating Cheez-Its to get through this project! Three hundred sixty pages of historical fiction. It feels surreal, like giving birth – a whole book… so hard to […]
What’s on Your Nightstand?
The year is 1906. Birth control and abortion are both illegal. What’s a girl to do?
Angry? Try Writing!
I’m not especially comfortable dealing with anger, my least favorite emotion. Gauging the ‘correct’ reaction to a slight has never come easily. As an avid observer of others, I look for good examples of anger management and occasionally try them on. Typically the fit feels awkward. Now, as a writer striving to amp up my work with tension, […]
Eliza Doolittle – Me….
I finished my last draft! Next, professional editing. Eighteen months – over 2,100 hours of research, writing, editing, classes and reworking the story. Still struggling with the title, but it’s ready to hand off to a real editor. I’m the Eliza Doolittle of the writing world, an unpolished fraud attempting to find my way in – to tell […]
My Local Library
It is with great embarrassment and shame that I admit the last time I was in a library, there were card catalogues. It must have been twenty years ago or more! Back in the 1970’s, toward the second half of high school, I worked in the township library shelving books. At that time, I was intimately familiar with […]