Lately, I’ve been binging on Helen Hayes movies. I always liked her as I was growing up. I stumbled across her mystery series called the Snoop Sisters. I don’t remember ever watching them before. Then I discovered she also played Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. I’ve seen the movie before, but not […]
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From Indecisive to Indie
My Author Journey: From Indecisive to Indie One of my major goals for this year decade is to create my own indie publishing company and make my books available in print, digital, and audio versions. That will involve re-releasing the first three novels of the Flowers of the Field series under the Words are Forever […]
What I Learned While Revising My Novel
This spring, I accomplished something I’ve been putting off for a long time: revising my current novel. This wasn’t just a rewrite or an edit; this go-through required a major re-structuring of the plotline. Some of you are aware that that I changed the premise of my plot direction and had to come up with […]
Midnight Insight
Author at work on the current novel: Setting–destination wedding in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Some exciting things are going on at Words are Forever during this time of isolation and unrest. My summer classes failed to materialize, so I’m dedicating the time to writing, rewriting, networking, and mastering the technical issues involved […]
News for Non-fiction authors
If you’re thinking about self-publishing, here’s a valuable new resource. Available for purchase soon on Amazon. Here’s a copy of my review on Goodreads. Stephanie Chandler has been the go-to person for entrepreneurial authors for the past decade. I still have a copy of her 2007 book From Entrepreneur to Infopreneur on my shelves, so […]
Take Your Inspiration Where You Find It
This has been a tense, but exciting, week for me. I’ve been putting the finishing touches on my first online course for writers: “I Have a Draft! Now What?” It went through beta testing in December and, other than the inevitable tech challenges, was ready for an insider’s look by President’s Day. Too bad the […]