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(My sugar skull costume for one of the weekend’s Halloween parties) There is one phrase that has become clearer and clearer to me in the last year: ‘Life is what you make it.’ It makes sense that this...
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THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is the final, scanned image for the cover of ‘Dyad’! I could not be more pleased with how it turned out!! Liz Lindstrom did an amazing job capturing the essence of this...
View Article‘Dyad’ Is Live!
Get your copy here! Remember – it’s FREE November 6, 7, and 8! Note: To read ebooks via Amazon Kindle, you do NOT have to have a Kindle. A free app can be downloaded onto smart phones and tablets, and...
View ArticleLettuce Give Thanks
(Romaine lettuce – coming in well in our fall garden) November, the month in which Thanksgiving is celebrated, usually sparks posts about giving thanks. I usually avoid that which is cliched, but I am...
View ArticleOverwhelmed
(S and I at a football game on Saturday) When things continue to go bad, or we have a series of unfortunate events, or circumstances worsen significantly, we tend to become overwhelmed. Our minds are...
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(My favorite wall. It’s in my kitchen. Here hangs the original artwork for ‘Dyad’ and the map with S and my travel plans through June 2015). Well ‘Dyad’ took off with a bang! In the three days it was...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Happy
(Trees outside the hoop house in our backyard) Living a life opposite of societal ideals can be a little depressing sometimes. Rather than aiming for amassing money or climbing corporate ladders or...
View ArticleForward Motion
(Ice on the back of a waterfall on a cold day in Chattanooga) Just because time is constantly moving forward doesn’t mean that we are. As humans, it’s easy to get ‘stuck’ in one place, one mindset....
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(Very early stages for the cover of ‘Sortilege’) CAN YOU BELIEVE ‘SORTILEGE’ IS BEING RELEASED A WEEK FROM TOMORROW?!!?! I’ve been working on this book since 2004 and it didn’t seem like it was ever...
View ArticleDifferences
(Snake S and I met at the zoo last week) *I apologize for the empty post that went out earlier! The wrong post was cued and I just caught it* Facebook is kind of weird. I’ve been thinking about it a...
View ArticleWater, Water, Water
(It rained all day yesterday and Katie insisted on sharing a seat with me) I spent all weekend working on my book. I spent 5 hours on Saturday on the final edits, perfecting the formatting for...
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(The most revealing preview yet!) ‘Sortilege’ comes out TOMORROW!!! I can’t believe it’s time! It’s surreal to think that this book, this portion of my life, is over. Here I am at age 14 writing the...
View Article‘Sortilege’ Release!
‘Sortilege’ is now available for purchase here on Amazon as a Kindle ebook!!! Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me through the years! Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. I plan to...
View ArticleRaw
(Chocolate on chocolate on chocolate) It’s a terrible thing to stop feeling – and I don’t mean nerve endings and pinpricks and stubbed toes. I mean feeling the life that you’re living, the weight of...
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(The notebook I’ve been writing ‘Sciamachy’ in – the second full-length novel in ‘The Empyrean Series’) Last week was an exciting week! I’ve celebrated four major accomplishments: 1. ‘Sortilege’ has...
View ArticleChoosing
(Katie cuddles) It’s December, folks. I know we’re all going to mad Christmas parties and participating in consumerism, but how about we stop and think: 2014 is coming to a close. How did your New...
View ArticlePhysical Copies Are Here!
Dyad and sortilege are now available for hard copy purchase! It will be 3-5 business days before they appear on amazon.com. Until then, they are available at createspace.com. Find Dyad here Order...
View ArticleBelieving
(A Tennessean sunset) Tomorrow S and I leave for Washington, D.C. We will be there for a few days, come home for 48 hours and then drive to Texas, where we will stay until after Christmas. S finished...
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S and I are in D.C. right now, so not a lot of actual writing to report. However, the paperback copies of ‘The Empyrean Series’ has made it to Amazon! ‘Sortilege’ can be bought here. Find ‘Dyad’...
View ArticleD.C.
S and I have been in Washington, D.C. since Tuesday. Not a lot of time to write, but here are some pictures from our fabulous trip so far: S and I in front of the Capitol Building, with the Christmas...
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