Eyes Wide Open, and Pen (?) in Hand
** Be sure to read to the end for a chance to win an autographed novel. Yesterday, Monday, was celebration day. On Sunday I sent Sunset Bridge to my editor. These days that’s as “easy” as attaching the manuscript to an email and clicking “send.” Of course everything that went before? Not so easy. Months…
Read MoreYou Say You Want A Digital Revolution?
If you read my recent blog on writers and friendship, you know I spent last week at the Novelist’s Inc. workshop on St. Pete Beach, my old stomping grounds. It’s always a surprise when I go home to find not the huge changes we sometimes see, but a re-creation of the past. My neighborhood looks much the…
Read MoreWith A Little Help From My Friends
Earlier in the fall I asked my Facebook readers what topics they would like to see here at Southern Exposure. Brandi Jones asked about my relationship with other authors. She wondered if we critique or brainstorm together, help each other out of writer’s block or even lend ideas. She was surprised at the lack of…
Read MoreThey Don’t Call ‘Em “Dead”lines For Nothing
I spent yesterday searching for hidden objects. What time I didn’t spend with nose to ground–a skill I learned from the local beagle–I spent watching half the appliances in my house fall apart. Ah, some people look for signs of changing seasons, colored leaves gently drifting to the ground, that first tracing of frost on…
Read MoreThe Write Way: Come On, Did I Really Say That?
Time for another The Write Way blog, so listen up. For those of you in the know, once a month–or thereabouts–I present my take on how to write a novel. Pop over to the “categories” listing to the right and click on “The Write Way” to see all those that have gone before. If you’re…
Read MoreThe Challenging Life of a Minister’s Wife, Part Two–An Interview With Emilie Richards
I’ll confess that when I recently interviewed Aggie Sloan-Wilcox for this blog, she was only too happy to comply. However there was a caveat. Aggie claimed that to be fair, I ought to submit to an interview with her, as well. Aggie’s nothing if not determined. And those of you acquainted with her know that…
Read MoreSniffing Out A Story, One Piece of Evidence At A Time
I’m still not quite sure how this happened. One moment I volunteered to dog-sit for the pathetic puppy that my son and daughter-in-law had rescued from the path of a bush hog and nursed back to health. The next I was on the telephone with my husband, who was out of town at a conference. …
Read More“I Was Adorable”–Eddie Fisher and The Men We Love
Eddie Fisher died this week, and now, thanks to this morning’s excellent Washington Post obituary, the man and his “impact” are on my mind. I’m a novelist, after all, and understanding the human heart is my job, maybe even my responsibility. I’m just old enough to remember Eddie Fisher as someone other than the father of Carrie, the…
Read MoreThe Book That Will Not End–When One Novel Becomes A Series
Two weeks ago I asked my Facebook “fans” to suggest topics they’d like me to blog about here. Then I sweetened the pot by doing a giveaway in conjunction. Three commenters were chosen at random and received autographed copies of my novels. See what you miss if you’re not hanging out with us on the page? …
Read MoreThe Challenging Life of a Minister’s Wife–An Interview With Aggie Sloan-Wilcox
Please welcome today’s guest, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, who has chosen this interview over the Women’s Society monthly meeting at her church. The Women’s Society’s guest speaker will be Browning Kefauver, Emerald Springs’ mayor, who may be running for re-election next year against the Women’s Society’s own Sally Berrigan. Aggie preferred not to witness the slaughter. Of…
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