First I must thank Rich Keller whose very special blog post carried me through the second half of December, a month that ended on a sad note. My mom, age 97, developed a serious case of pneumonia complicated by severe sepsis. She passed away on December 27th. It seems every year of our lives is …Read More
Embracing Your Creative Soul (and Feeling Good About It) … by Richard Keller
Pat, a million tiny sparks of thanks for allowing me to be part of your blog once again. We’ve been doing this for four years now, and I finally have the courage to admit this – I apologize for nothing. That’s right … the knee, the cat nip in your underwear drawer, the accusation that …Read More
NaNoWriMo is Upon Us
And I’m determined to complete the whole first draft of a novel this November. It may not be publishable, even with revisions, but it will hopefully get me writing again and help me establish a routine that I can continue on through December and into 2017. It’s day two, and I’m at 3,000 words. I …Read More
I’m Not a Big Fan of Halloween
I liked Halloween okay when I was a kid, but the experience was quite diluted compared to what city kids experienced. I lived on a farm, so my dad would drive my brother and me to a couple of the neighbors’ houses, and that was it. Huge Trick-or-Treat bags full of candy was not part …Read More
If You’ve Signed Up for NaNoWriMo…
Please stop by Chuck Wendig’s Terribleminds blog and read A Cooling Mist Of NaNoWriMo-Flavored Novel Writing Advice Especially pay attention to the part about not chewing your hands off. I finally picked a title for my NaNoWriMo project and entered it on the NaNo site. I added some things to my bio (I’m PattyPetunia …Read More
Fame, Fate, and Fun With Words … by Kathy Lynn Emerson (aka Kaitlyn Dunnett)
Back at the end of August, I had what most people would call my “fifteen minutes of fame” after Jimmy Fallon, on the Tonight Show, held up one of the cozy mysteries I write as Kaitlyn Dunnett, Ho-Ho-Homicide, and announced that “It’s got two things everyone likes—Christmas and murder.” I was stunned when I saw …Read More
Writing Beyond Expectations … by Matt Hilton
When writing my first (published) novel – Dead Men’s Dust – I made a conscious decision to write something very different from other crime/thriller books on British bookshelves. There are traditions in crime fiction set in the UK where amateur sleuths or damaged Detective Inspectors tend to be the norm, and I was infinitely aware …Read More
The Most Excellent Road Trip
I was out of touch last week as my daughter-in-law and I worked to pack up and empty my mother’s assisted living apartment in east central Illinois and then drive her to Northern Colorado to live much closer to me. It was an exhausting experience for all of us, but we had a lot of …Read More
I’m a Guest at JC Lynne’s Blog This Week!
I had some fun writing this post for JC Lynne’s blog. There aren’t too many things a writer can count on for sure, but I was able to come up with five. Please visit the blog and see if you agree or disagree. And leave a comment! If she doesn’t know you aleady, JC will …Read More
A Little Pentatonix Music, Please…
I love this a capella group so much. This little taste of their music was posted to You Tube on August 19th.
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