Look who’s at it again with a review of my second book, Headwinds! Yes, it’s the amazing 13 year-old Erik Weibel, a.k.a. This Kid Reviews Books, who’s been blogging book reviews since he was NINE. Read what he has to … Continue reading
If you read the previous post, you’ll know that RT 2014 came with extra drama. But the following year, as memory and these photos remind me, the sun SHONE on Red Rover and her occupants. Our blessings started with a … Continue reading
For a novelist with a blog, I gotta say, I RARELY blog about my novels. But watching some eagles wheel in the sky the other day, it hit me: could there be better binge-reading during a national lockdown than a … Continue reading
You’ve heard of NaNoWriMo? (That’s National Novel Writing Month–an annual, Internet-based creative writing project that takes place during the month of November.) Well, today this clueless author is celebrating something more personal: WriBoYoWaWri. That is… writing the book you (or I, … Continue reading
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Face it–we all love Drama. Even when we say we don’t. Period. We also love being read aloud to. IF the reader is animated. IF the story catches our attention. IF we’re not too distracted by when’s dinner-what-time-do-I-have-to-get-up-tomorrow-wonder-how-bad-traffic-is-did-I-even-remember-to-thaw-that hamburger-oh-shoot-I-forgot-to-call-so-and-so to … Continue reading
Humbling experiences aren’t always fun. Or tasty. The other day, I had one that was both. I got together with a bunch of people to press apples into cider. It started out totally fun, as I’d expected. A huge pile … Continue reading
I have finished another landscape quilt, and I’m bursting with pride. Please, look at my pictures! But don’t look too close. “The Enchantments”–based on my Happy Place in the central Cascades. Detail of the bottom. I like to have the … Continue reading
If you’ve been paying the slightest attention, you would know that Russia is not a good place to be gay right now. If you have any doubts, Ben Steele’s documentary, Hunted: The War on Gays in Russia, clears those doubts … Continue reading
Before I published The Flying Burgowski, the question that used to tense me up was “So, are you published?” Now that I’m an Official Author, this is the question that clenches my gut. “So how many books have you sold?” Insecurity? … Continue reading
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