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My kids just started school. I got my first “smarty pants” phone. I’m editing my second novel. This weekend I’m meeting editor(s) to talk about a third that I haven’t yet written. Tomorrow, I need to make dinner. I feel like I don’t know… Continue Reading “Things I don’t know. Things I do.”
The kid who rang up my groceries last night broke my heart. Somehow, as he scanned my zucchini and frozen waffles, he got to talking about his mom. How great she is. How she raised him alone. How he owed her everything. And about… Continue Reading “What I Wished I Could Have Said”
All three of my kids started school yesterday. Yup. All three. For the first time. My daughter is in first grade. My boys in a young 5’s class. I homeschooled last year. This year, I’m dropping them all off at the curb of the… Continue Reading “Why I Cried”
This morning, I had a first! I got to sit in a RADIO STUDIO! Star 105.7 (the big top 40 station here in Grand Rapids) and record an interview with Tommy and Brook (hosts of the morning show). Seriously, they have beautiful speaking voices.… Continue Reading “Radio!!!!”
Writing means edits. Editing is writing. Slash those words. Kill your darlings*. Cut and add and fix and all that jazz. I don’t mind editing. Actually, I like reading the ideas my editor has for my novels**. When something structural needs to be fixed,… Continue Reading “Humbled By Typos”
Today I’m happy to host Wendy Paine Miller! Join me in welcoming Wendy to the blog! I can’t say when it was that I realized several of my novels depict scenes that revolve around labor. I know women care about such events and… Continue Reading “Writers “Go There” — Guest Post With Wendy Paine Miller”
Last November, I sat at this table in the Gerald R. Ford Airport. A cardboard cup of vending machine coffee had made a ring of brown on the table. I’d spilled because, to be perfectly honest, I was nervous. I was meeting Megan Sayer.… Continue Reading “9,796.6 Miles”
Today, I’d like to introduce you to April McGowan. Her first novel, Jasmine, just released in paper back. Go on over and check it out! Jasmine tells the story of a women returning home after having run away twenty two years earlier to… Continue Reading “So Far Away – Guest Post from April McGowan”
I’ve never been the kind of writer who thinks of her work as a baby. The analogy has been used so many times, I’m kind of over it. So, I struggled to figure out a more fitting one. Something that better exemplified my writing… Continue Reading “Letting Go – Kids and Writing”
Today, my friend Patt would have turned 71. Today, I edit a scene that reminds me a whole lot of her. Today, I’d like to share with you a little post I wrote a few years ago. I miss my friend. My mentor. My… Continue Reading “My Friend Patt”
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