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Wow…Just, Wow!
It’s been a pretty cool few of days. In spite of the fact that I’m buried under a couple of heavy-duty editing gigs and am in hermit mode, I’ve managed to collect some great news. My novel Rule Number One is now available on Amazon.com. If you haven’t had a chance to get it yet, here’s a brand new opportunity, <grin>. And, pretty please, if you do have an Amazon account, if you’d stop by and “Like” my book, that would go a long way to supporting me in this little venture. Merci, in advance! My friend and fellow writer, Robena Grant is a finalist in the RWA Golden Heart…
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The Feast or Famine Dilemma
Okay, so it’s not truly a dilemma like Kennedy’s Cuban Missile Crisis or whether it’s appropriate to wear my white jeans after Labor Day, but being a freelance editor does often present difficult choices. It seems as if work comes in groups. Sometimes I spend a couple of weeks with no work at all and only a project or two way out on the horizon. When that happens, I start to panic and so I send out little reminders to my clients that I’m still around and available. It’s not a begging for work thing, just a gentle reminder that I’m here if they need an editor. My clients are…
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Mea Culpa
I’m not sure this is really a case of mea culpa or more a case of Nan realizing that something she hated is actually not all that bad, but here goes. Last July, I posted a rant about smart phones—all about how much I hated them. How I despised texting and how rude I thought it was when people texted while they were supposed to be conversing with me at lunch or dinner. Although I’m now of a new mind about smart phones, I’m definitely not changing my mind about the texting part. I still hate it when people put their phones on the table next to them during a…
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Back in the Hot Seat…
…but this time with answers! My answers to the questions that you all posed while I was at Robena Grant’s blog are up there for you to read. Thanks so much to Roben for having me and to all of you for being interested enough in me and my novel to ask questions. Please come by and check it out!
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I Believe…
…in the spiritual precepts of Simple Abundance. You may know Sara Ban Breathnach’s timeless Daybook of Comfort and Joy that was published in the mid-1990s. It is my go-to book when I need to rediscover my own spirituality. Her truths are just as valid today as they were 17 years ago, and every other year, I take up my now-battered copy of the book and reread the meditations—starting on January 1 and reading one each day. I love finding notes that I’ve scribbled in the margins and excerpts I’ve highlighted—ah-ha moments from past years. The six principles of Simple Abundance are gratitude, simplicity, order, harmony, beauty, and joy. Sara calls…
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In the Hot Seat
I’m in the “hot seat” over at Robena Grant’s blog today. It works like this: You comment on today’s blog with a question for me about anything at all, Roben collects all the questions and at the end of the week, she sends them to me to answer. I answer them and then she posts the answers on her blog next week. I’m ready–come on by and ask my anything about my writing, the process, getting published, being a editor…really just anything at all…
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Okay, So Now It Is All Party, Party, Party…
What’s better than gathering all your dearest friends around you to celebrate a joyful moment in your life? Not a thing! Last night, the menopause fairies, my sisters, and my two critique partners all came over to help me celebrate the release of my novel, RULE NUMBER ONE. It was a hen party pure and simple, and I had a blast. So far, the phone calls and emails I’ve gotten this morning indicate that everyone else did too. Twelve of us sat around my big dining room table, drinking wine and eating pizza. Patty brought brownies because even though she’s not quite old enough to qualify as a menopause fairy…
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It’s Not All Party, Party, Party…
…over here at Nan’s house. I am still floating on a little pink cloud over the release of Rule Number One on Tuesday and the fact that today, it hit #2 on the BookStrand Mainstream Top Sellers list (Woot!), but I also have to keep maintaining what passes for normal in my life. So, I went swimming this morning, did a load of laundry, thought about what to make for supper, decided on shrimp, and got back to work on my work-in-progress (WIP). I’m a little bit stalled on this one, so I’m doing something I don’t normally do—I’m plotting. Ordinarily, I just sit down and write and let the…