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Personal Update: Robert and I are headed to France! And we’re excited to experience France’s cultural motto: joie de vivre! We want to squeeze as much French culture: its natural and architectural beauty, food, history, and people as we can. And what better way than to experience it through planes, trains, and automobiles. We’re flying into Paris, catching a train …
My fellow Lady Lits and I were featured on the Refuge Podcast hosted by Jennifer Elwood. Amazingly, this was pre-recorded in July, so it included Nancy Ness, the “founder” of our Lady Lits mastermind group. Sadly, Nancy passed away in July, so I’m grateful that through the podcast, others can get a snippet of this extraordinary woman. (You can read …
Tribute to Nancy Ness: This newsletter is about a five-minute read Before I give you an important writing update, in honor of my friend, I’m diving into the sad news first. There are friends who impact you profoundly in a short time that it’s hard to believe you didn’t know them longer. That’s how my dear friend and fellow Lady Lit, Nancy Ness, affected …
A 1950’s-Styled Anniversary Celebration This newsletter is about a 5-minute read A few weeks ago, we celebrated my parents’ 60th wedding anniversary with family and friends. They had a 50’s theme, so Robert and I wore black replicating a scene from Grease. The greatest takeaway of the celebration was watching my parents enjoy the night. Their outward expression of love reflects …
My writer friend, Jill (her pen name is J Bea Wilson), has a monthly interactive newsletter called Lift, where she features a short story. But the twist is, she enlists her subscribers in a contest where they offer a premise for the story based on a theme. She selects the winner of the contest and the short story for the …
Personal and Writing Update: This is about a 4-minute read On Memorial Day, my husband and I went hiking for a few hours. We went to our tried-and-true spot, Oxley Nature Center. It was the setting for our engagement photos, as well as where we had one of our first outings as friends. Besides having a great time, the hike …
I’m working on my developmental edits for my novella, Christmas at Sonshine Barn, this weekend (working 10 hrs/3 days) tackling macro and then micro elements. Pray I’ll make significant headway since my goal is to send a revised draft to the editor for line-by-line edits by June. And hopefully, I’ll have a mockup for the book cover by June or July as well …
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Join the Sonshine Barn Team! With Christmas at Sonshine Barn in the developmental editor’s desk, I’m working on the marketing plan for a late fall release. I’m like a kid discovering a new sport as I’m learning how to launch a book, but a little unsure how it’ll all play out. I’m praying for guidance, wisdom, and peace. Have you experienced this …
Travel to Amalfi, Italy I’m revising Rescue in Amalfi, a short story about my protagonists, Garrett Bettencourt and Celine Monroe. When they’re twelve years old, they meet for the first time in Amalfi, Italy. You might’ve already read the original version since I emailed it to subscribers. But after hiring someone to copyedit it, I made changes. It’s an important story because it inaugurates …
