“Joey!” I called out. The word hung in front of me, trembling in the air but traveling no further than the space around me. “Joey!” I tried again, only to have my voice swallowed by the thick atmosphere surrounding my presence. I took a deep breath and screamed his name once more, using all of …
“Mom, watch out!” he cried, the terror in his voice breaking the moment without warning. I jerked my head forward as a semi-truck straddled the yellow line on the windy road, coming straight at us. With no shoulder on the road, there wasn’t anywhere to pull over on my right. Instead, the right hand side …
My friend and colleague, Robert Digitale, is not only an excellent journalist, but he is also a man who appreciates a good story. He is the author of Horse Stalker, has headed up several multi-authored collaborations between both novelists and journalists, and keeps a blog with our local newspaper named Digitale Stories, dedicated entirely to …
Digitale Stories shared a huge excerpt from my book! Read More »
We didn’t hear the first knock on the door. But the second knock was unmistakable, vibrating the pictures that hung on the wall. “I know you’re awake,” the muffled voice called from the hallway. “I’m trying to sleep, and between your racket and Joey talking in his headset, it’s kind of hard.” John groaned in …
Today for my day job at the newspaper, I got to write about indie writers. I’m pretty proud of this article, and love the authors I got to interview for it. You can read it here: http://bit.ly/10WDg2M What I love most about it is that it shows that success really is possible, but also tells …
I’m sick as a dog today. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good, because I get to stay in my jammies all day long, blog and write to my heart’s content, watch a little TV, and take a nap if I want to. Those are always key ingredients to a …
It’s nearing the end of my 2nd day of my Kindle promotion for A Symphony of Cicadas. This morning, I watched as the numbers barely moved at all. It reached 100 downloads, and I wondered what the heck I could be doing wrong. So I toyed with the genre, classifying it as Women’s Literature (basically, …
A Symphony of Cicadas is FREE for Kindle owners – but only till April 3rd. So hurry and download yours for free! http://amzn.to/ZwhBLZ So in efforts to get my unknown name out there amongst the massive amounts of books at Amazon, I have taken advantage of a program called KDP Select. This is an exclusive …
I went for a run* tonight, and this is what I got to hear: *Side note: “Run” is a very loose term for what I did. But because “moving up and down while putting one foot in front of another at a slightly faster pace than walking” is too long, we’ll just go with “run”. …
It’s here. Today. My book’s official publishing day. But wait, you say. I thought we had another week!, you say. Surprise! It’s early! What do you say when the biggest thing you had on your bucket list is suddenly crossed off? I have waited so long for this very moment, and here it is. My …