Good Friday morning everyone! How have you been doing lately? I tell you, not to complain, but it’s been busy in this mama’s life with work, revisions on my submissions to two agents (where I have been feverishly working to either delete or rework a character), I slipped in a quick family vacation down to San Antonio, and now I am enrolled in a two-week Fast Draft Course with the wonderful Candace Havens that is totally blowing NaNoWriMo away! Phew!…
How have I gotten to this point in my life without reading a book by John Grisham? I can tell you that I have seen many of his books-turned-movies like The Firm, The Client, and The Pelican Brief. All wonderful movies, and I’m sure even better books. My husband is a huge fan of his and on one of our weekend trips, he had us listen to the audio book of Playing for Pizza, which I have to say was really interesting. But…
So, with action still being the name of the game, comes the first of the book reviews that is part of my “challenge” this year. I’m participating (I can’t remember if I mentioned this before) in a reading challenge from a fellow author named, Roni Loren (www.roniloren.com), where she suggested that you challenge yourself by pushing your reading boundaries. First of all, I started reading many moons ago, when my father would take my sister and I to the bookstore…
Having a birthday on New Year’s can certainly put your life in perspective, especially when you miscalculate how old you are going to be and discover you are going to be older than you thought. (yes, that did happen this year) Not mentioning any numbers, but what I found really stressful is that I thought that I had at least one more year to enact my “plan.” You know, when you think that you are going to have A,…
When I sit down and talk with friends and family about what our favorite books are, I am always amazed by the fact that the list is a growing and ever changing one. It’s not a stale list that has the same favorites that it always had, it is something that is living and changes as often as the world revolves around the sun. And I like that. Who wants to talk about the same books, every day, for the…