It may be Spring, but the stormy weather in my neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest) has me searching for something to comfort my muse. I thought I’d use my blog time today to discuss community.
It’s been almost five years since I joined my first writer’s group – my local RWA chapter. I dusted off my professional suit, tried hard for a good hair and make-up day, and marched off to my first meeting.
I had written a book and I wanted to share that news with people who understood …

Digging through computer files, I found a little journal about my first time experience with edits and I thought it might be fun to share:
After accepting an offer for publication on my first book, I anxiously awaited my first ever edits from a publisher. And yes, I said anxiously. It’s my first book, after all. Finally, after an agonizing wait, they arrived. I was giddy. Yes, giddy. And emailing all my writer friends, plus some of my family, in CAPITAL LETTERS.  It’s been a couple days now. Reality has set …

I’d like to thank Jeannie Ruesch and Happy Endings for letting me join this motivating group of authors. For my first official blog here, I thought I’d talk about gossip. Agent Steven Axelrod said something in one of his blogs that we, as writers of fiction, gossip about imaginary people. I fell in love with that phrase, even though I’ve never really considered myself a person who gossips. But really, isn’t that exactly what we do?  And I’m going to let you in on my dirty little secret.
I like it.
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