Here is the cover of my third anthology which will launch in a week or two on Amazon. Research estimates the average person who sleeps 7 hours a night makes 35,000 choices a day. Most are routine, but some are important enough to change lives. Personal essays, poetry, and fictional characters’ stories give examples of […]
Multiple Projects Can Get Out Of Hand
I’m a Type A personality, always busy, never bored. A writing friend calls me Nutzoid when I take on another project. She’s right. A cliche says “proof is in the pudding”, for me “proof is in the projects on my plate right now” (yes, another cliche and one in the title). Sometimes it’s fun to […]
Look For The Promise In A Story
In my writing class today, we talked about the story’s promise. A few members brought in novels and read the promise on the first page, often in the first paragraph. I asked if the author followed up with the promise to the end. They assured me the authors did. The examples were across genres, a […]
Book Launch Party For Voices of the Valley: Word for Word
California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch hosts a launch party for their anthology, Voices of the Valley: Word for Word, in Pleasanton, CA on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Several writers will read excerpts from their prose or poem. Refreshments will be served, and copies of the book will be available for sale […]
Historical Fiction Sample in Written Across the Genres
Reme Pick is writing a book called The Yoke. It’s a true story set in the Philippines. The excerpt in my anthology, Written Across the Genres is about Reme running from the Japanese planes with her newborn son, Charlie, her mother and younger sister, Alice. They left their nipa house and headed for a boat […]
The Free “Time To Write And Color Mini Book” Is Available Now
The sign up is ready. Paula fixed the glitch while she was traveling. She’s the best. People who have signed up for this blog years, weeks, days, hours or possibly minutes ago will still need to sign up to receive the mini book and alerts to my new posts. Plus, the first person who comments […]
Story Accepted for Publication
Los Positas College accepted my story called “Waiting” for their 2015 anthology.