Fiction Friday: Part Three of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? I’m sharing the beginning of One Mountain Away today and every Friday through the end of the month when it makes its debut at bookstores. You can read prior excerpts by clicking on Goddess Anonymous under Categories at the right. Start reading at the bottom. Part Three, Chapter Two, part one: Charlotte…
Read MoreThe Little Picture or the Big One? What’s Your Pleasure?
After knee surgery in the spring, I began taking walks each morning. Little by little I’ve increased the distance and speed that I walk, most of it up or down hills, until I’ve gotten back to what’s always been my regular route. But this past weekend I must have exercised with too much resolve, because…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Like Pointed Shoes Too Cheap for Elves to Wear
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. More poetry today about the charms of summer. John Updike’s Chicory certainly brought back a wonderful memory. Years ago my first summer in Virginia followed a spring of new and spectacular beauty for me.…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Part Two of One Mountain Away
Tuning in late? You can discover what we’re doing and why here as well as read the first section. Part Two of Chapter One from Charlotte Hale’s First Day Journal: One of Maddie’s friends is on her way to the dome right now to make sure Porter doesn’t push her. This child, olive-skinned and lean, is…
Read MoreHappy Endings? Yours or Mine?
I’m going to make a confession. I like to smile at the end of a novel. I like to think that problems have been resolved, that the characters I grew to care about will start the next phase of their lives with fewer burdens and a healthy dose of optimism. I like, dare I admit…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: Golden-Buttercup-Wild
Welcome to Sunday Poetry. If this is your first visit you can read about the purpose and inspiration of my Sunday poetry blogs here. Wow, it’s been hot, right? Maybe not for all of you, but many of you have been suffering under the heaviest hand summer has employed in memory. While our weather here in Western NY…
Read MoreFiction Friday: One Mountain Away Begins
What could make more sense one month from the publication of a new book than a preview for my faithful blog readers? So today Fiction Friday begins. For the next six weeks stop by to read the first chapter and a half of One Mountain Away, the first book of my Godesses Anonymous series, one…
Read MoreJune: What Busy Feels Like
I’m always busy. You probably are, too. We zip from project to project, destination to destination. We multi-task and feel guilty we can’t do three things at once instead of two. We put memo pads beside our beds in case we remember something else we need to do in the middle of the night. We…
Read MoreSunday Poetry: A Special Giveaway
Welcome back to Sunday Poetry, after my short hiatus. Those of you who’ve been following along this past year know this blog began after I heard poet Billy Collins speak at Chautauqua Institution several years ago. I was so impressed that I checked out the Library of Congress site he began, Poetry 180, which was…
Read MoreMy Seventy Book Latest and Greatest Giveaway
My best novels happen when ideas collide. Take two seemingly unrelated but interesting situations, then watch them tango warily around each other until suddenly they’re dancing cheek to cheek, and the plot for a book has begun to form. Today, as I was handling papers and packing books for my move to somewhere this week,…
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