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My sister was nearly a firecracker. Born on the 5th of July. As a little girl, I believed that we held sparklers and watched those weird smoky snake things wiggle in honor of the birth of Betsy Lee Riggs. Watermelon and popsicles and fireworks… Continue Reading “Born on the 5th of July”
I’m near the end of my edits for A CUP OF DUST (my novel in progress). Thus far I have bled 7 purple pens dry and used 3 yellow legal pads full of paper. I can’t even come close to guessing how many cups… Continue Reading “The Book I Want To Read”
Friends, today I am completely uninspired by the idea of blogging. Completely. I’ve written and deleted no less than 6 rambling attempts at a blog. Each one had some potential, I guess. Still, they all stunk. So. I deleted them. I thought about heading… Continue Reading “Beating Up Inspiration”
Monday I drove through one of the worst stormy-rainy-dark-terrifying half hours of my life. The rain came down so hard that it made a pool of the highway. The highway where semi trucks were racing down. The highway that had a mile-marker telling me… Continue Reading “On Dark Clouds, Hydroplaning, and This Writing Life”
Did you know that, over the summer months, kids have a learning loss of between 5-15%? They actually slide backwards, putting our teachers in the position of having to re-teach during the first few weeks of school rather than charging ahead on new/fresh/EXCITING education.… Continue Reading “5 Ways to Keep Kids Reading Over the Summer”
I’m in the middle of editing my novel in progress. It’s called A CUP OF DUST. And I have to write the title in all caps because that’s how we roll in the writing biz. I happen to love editing my own work (not… Continue Reading “Editing, Geodes, and Shiny Stuff — And Ask Susie Post”
The past few weeks have been full. End-of-the-school-year, hustle-and-bustle-of-summer, answer emails, market books, clean-clean-clean. I’m not going to lie. The writing suffered. And when the writing suffers, the inner voice screams. And when the inner voice screams…well…I feel like I’m faking this whole I’m-a-writer… Continue Reading “Getting Away”
I get a lot of questions these days about writing. It’s not because I’m the absolute authority in the writing life or because I’m awesome. More than anything it’s because I’m the only author many of my friends know. So, it makes sense to… Continue Reading “I Think I Want To Be A Writer…Now What? And Other Writerly Questions.”
I’m thrilled to have Wendy Paine Miller here once again. She was here a few months ago, talking about her novella The Disappearing Key. She’s recently released her full length novel The Flower Girls which is on my to-read shelf. The Flower Girls… Continue Reading “A Story For Sisters — A Guest Post With Wendy Paine Miller”
I found out this morning that a friend of mine passed away. Hedy was a grandma or friend or mama or sister to everyone. You pick. She’d be what you needed. I don’t know that Hedy would have been comfortable being called a Prayer… Continue Reading “Thank you, Hedy”
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