Happiness Key: Tracy’s Story, Part Two
If you read Tuesday’s blog, you know that I’m sharing Tracy’s story this week. Tracy is one of four major women characters in my new novel Happiness Key, which will debut next month. Without delay, here’s part two of Tracy’s tale. Tracy’s Story, Part Two Up to that point I’d had other significant moments in…
Read MoreExactly Who ARE Those People and Why Do I Want to Read About Them? Tracy’s Story
If you’ve been following my blogs on Happiness Key, you already know that there are four major characters in the novel, four very different women. Some of you have even taken my Facebook quiz to see which character you are most like. Beginning this week, Tracy, Janya, Wanda and Alice will introduce themselves right…
Read MoreWhich Happiness Key Character Are You Most Like? A Facebook Quiz
Remember the popular movie Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner and Amy Madigan? Well, I don’t. At least not much, just two things, really. One, Field of Dreams was a baseball movie, and while I enjoyed Little League games when my sons were younger, then Cleveland Indian’s games when I lived in Ohio, I prefer…
Read MoreBook Promotion, Accidents, Writing Careers and Internet Radio
Freud may not believe in accidents, but I do. Want to hear about the accident that changed my life? I mean HEAR. Not read. You can do it right now by going here, to Accidental Radio on the website of author Wendy Wax. Once you click on my information, a cute little podcast graphic will…
Read MoreHappiness and Taking Chances
I start every morning at my computer with a familiar ritual. I enter a contest to win a house. Any house. Sometimes it’s the HGTV Dream Home, or Green Home. Right now it’s the Southern Living Choose Your Home Giveaway. I envision myself living in Sonoma, California, or Habersham, South Carolina, or any number of fabulous places. I furnish the…
Read MoreThe Way it Should Be–the Joys of Parenthood
I have the greatest admiration for any single mom or dad. Raising children with two parents is difficult. Raising children alone? Anyone doing this deserves all our support. Take Mama Bird, for instance. Remember those babies in the boot from my photo last weekend? Unformed little critters who barely resembled birds? Now look. One…
Read MoreSmall Blessings–the joys of spring and motherhood
Wondering about the eggs in the boot from a couple of blogs ago? Wondering what kind of bird fits inside a boot to lay so many perfect tiny eggs? Wonder no more. Mama Bird’s a Carolina wren, and very conscientious. The babies are alive and well, although we hope they eventually begin to look more…
Read MoreWhat Really Goes Into a Novel–Researching for Fun and Profit
Sometimes I can’t believe my own good luck. I have a built-in excuse to do the strangest things without one smidgen of guilt. Yesterday, for instance, in the middle of writing a chapter that does NOT want to be written, I got the urge to bake a pie. So I did. Without feeling the least…
Read MoreWho Does Emilie Read? Diane Chamberlain For One
Inevitably during every interview I’m asked the names of authors I enjoy. Inevitably Diane Chamberlain is at the top of my list. Diane and I became more than mutual admirers when I moved to Northern Virginia a decade ago and found she lived here, too. We began to get together to chat, then to brainstorm,…
Read MoreUnexpected Reminders–the Other Side of Memorial Day
Sometimes little miracles are easy to miss. Luckily my son saw these and warned us before we pulled on our boots for a hike into Central Virginia woods this holiday weekend. Memorial Day is a time to remember those who have passed from our lives. These tiny eggs were a reminder of new lives about to be…
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