-
Ankle sprain saga
The sprain took three months to heal. The second time I went out at the point where I could drive again--it was my right foot, my driving foot that got sprained--I stepped on a rock that turned and resprained it. Had I been a cursin' person, you'd have heard my naughty words from wherevere you are, even in Australia. So I had to ask myself, what is ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Hi, you all!
New Years resolution #87: Top post more often, and get back in touch with as many of you as I can. Blessings and good wishes for this year we've so recently entered. -
I'm back--again!
Hi, friends, if I still have any.
I've totally neglected you for weeks and weeks. Now, laid up with a sprained ankle and torn ligaments, and inspired by my son's intellectual blog, bookselleresversusbestsellers@blogspot.com , I'll try to to somewhat better, but I don't promise to eevn try to match his well thought out and researched blog comparing ( Read more... ) -
What if enemy soldiers attacked your home town?
Here's my first post in a very long time. Writing and revising my third novel in my series about Charlemagne's family kept my nose pointed into the WIP for at least a year. Now it's out to my critique group. The first two, Rotaida and the Runestone followed Rotaida's as, sold as a slave in Frankish King Charlemagne's palace, she searched for her ( Read more... ) -
Are you a secret Saxon?
Anybody reading my YA novel Royal Spy, or my current WIP, may suspect I am. By the time I finish this new book, the third in the series, they'll probably be sure of it ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Leave Room
Any kind of berry with spray-on whipped cream.
-
SCHOOL VISITS
Here are my illustrator, Suzanna Leigh, and me in our 8th Century costumes before we dyed the dressEs yellow, she with coffee and I with turmeric. We wore them to several school visits the last week of school. Lessons we learned: School visits are loads of fun for us and for the kids, but for book sales we need to instigate more pre-visit ( Read more... ) -
Stage Fright and School Visits
I've been so dragging my feet about doing school visits. How woud I arrange them, and with whom? What would I say or do to interest the kids in my books. I quivered. I lollygagged and procastinated. Finally, my illustrator, Suzanna Leigh, took charge and arranged a series of school visits. In rapid succession this month, Suzanna and I have ( Read more... ) -
Pictures--not!
Hi, you all, I've been trying to send you pictures of Suzanna Leigh and me and some of our customers at our Open House to celebrate Royal Spy, the YA historical I wrote and Suzanna illustrated. All I can get to show up on the post and on the preview is a square with a a red X in a tiny box in a corner of it. Will try again in a day or two, because ( Read more... )