How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

How to Rock an Author Event: Five Tips

So you’ve become an author, have you? Published by a small press, or else a large one with no publicist, so that the onus of selling your book falls upon you? Welcome to life as an author, 2012. Because I’m an extrovert, marketing via public appearances...
900 words that didn’t make the Novel

900 words that didn’t make the Novel

http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-sign-up.html “Are you really slack-jawed over a mailman?” a gentle voice behind her said. Startled, Amy whipped her body around, causing vertigo. Amy looked at the gentle speaker, clothed in a luxurious robe and...
I’m a fiction writer… I lie for a living!

I’m a fiction writer… I lie for a living!

A year ago, our expensive supplemental insurance gave us a free membership to LA Fitness, so I became a gym-rat. That is not a lie. My husband is my personal trainer. That is fact, too. What’s also fact is that I’m a woman of a certain age: not over the...
The Affable Presence of Celebrity and Recognition

The Affable Presence of Celebrity and Recognition

I live in a celebrity scene. Near-constant sunshine, miles and miles of beach, and clusters of people to worship it all. Celebrity sightings are usual and the stars are casual about the recognition that accompanies publicity and fame. Stars of the movies, stars of TV,...
Apollo – and the Moon – Prevails

Apollo – and the Moon – Prevails

Apollo, the Moon – and the American Spirit Prevails! Though everyone can recite Neil Armstrong’s “one small step for man, one giant step for mankind”, as he stepped onto the surface of the moon…arguably the most famous Apollo flight was...