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Friday, February 22, 2008
The Basking Continues Unabated
8:53 pm pst
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Still Basking, but working on Those Revisions, too.
By the amount of emails I have received, "All That Glitters" has sold to everyone in my immediate circle, including a
cousin in England. Thanks have been given to all of them, and now it's time to come down from whichever cloud I have
been sitting on for the last few days.
I'm working on the Chapter by Chapter outline of "Rose Tattoo" as I continue to call it to myself. Some writers
work off an outline, but I prefer not to, as it seems to stifle my creativity. I feel too confined. If I want
to pursue an avenue that has opened up in my plotting, an outline waves at me: "You can't go there. It's not in the
game plan."
So, I pedal backwards--the outline is to ensure I cover all the plot points and resolve them all, too. It's to
make sure my timelines are correct, etc., etc.
This time, I'm working with colored text: red for plot points, green when they're resolved. Magenta for background
info. Yellow for day changes. Aqua for timelines.
Intricate plotting requires more intricate outlines.
Friday, February 8, 2008
"All That Glitters" has hit the virtual bookstore!
Publication day finally arrived and "All That Glitters" is the newest release at Awe-Struck. Here's the direct
link to check out the cover, blurb, favorable reviews, excerpt and even to purchase:
I sent out an email to friends, aquaintances, fellow writers and anyone else who has ever sent me an email (that part
is just a joke, folks) early this morning, right after I had made coffee and checked Awe-Struck's site myself. By 8:44AM
I had already received a congratulatory email from one friend who had also purchased.
More kudos arrived as the day progressed. I was able to check them out when I got home from work at 6:30PM.
It was a long day, but somehow, after checking my inbox, it didn't seem like it.
There's just nothing like a release date.
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Hobbies:
Travel. Anywhere, at any time. Two years ago I spent New Year in New York with a friend who
lives in Lower Manhattan; took a trip with my son to Death Valley, Bishop and the Alabama Hills in the Spring; spent a
long weekend with friends in a cabin in Mammoth late summer and 5 days in November visiting friends in Houston.
Last year, I returned to Houston unexpectedly in February due to a very dear friend's illness, visited more close friends in
Spokane, Washington in April and took a research trip up to Maine for the 3rd book in the "Rose Tattoo" trilogy, "Maine Issues"
(working title,) and then Salem and Boston for pleasure/business in September. This year, my son came with me up to
Portland Oregon as we both have wanted to check it out for the last couple of years. EPICon made it a business trip
with 2 days of pleasure on either side. We drove the Columbia Gorge and hiked to a waterfall. We had dinner in
Chinatown. It was too early in the year to go hiking up to Mt. St. Helen's or visit some of the other attractions.
The only day we had to drive to the coast, rain was forecast. We may just have to go back...
Other hobbies: Hiking and camping with friends in the Sierras. I've even learned to fish.
Reading (of course!)
Researching (why do people think research has to be boring?)
While growing up in England, I read everything I could get my hands on. The bookshelf my parents
gave me became overloaded with everything from the classics through mysteries, romances, science fiction and even horror. I
not only read, but began writing and won a novel contest while in high school.
My other time-consuming interest became travel. After trips to Italy and the South of France during childhood,
I took a cruise around the Mediterranean with my godparents, visiting Malta, Portugal, Egypt (I saw the Pyramids and
the spectacular Cairo Museum,) Turkey, and Venice, Italy.
After that, I decided to immerse myself in the French language by living in Paris. There I met two friends
who even today remain among my closest. We traveled from Paris to spend the summer in Florence, Italy, and
then with one of them, I went on to visit Portugal and Morocco extensively, then on to Spain, where after touring from one
end to the other and spending a summer on the coast in Marbella, I met my future husband in Madrid and stayed four years
before coming to the U.S.
I've continued my globe-trotting ways by crossing the continental United States twice and living in six States.
Now the divorced mother of two grown children, I currently live in Monrovia with Taffy, the Canine Escape Artist.
Throughout these years, I not only benefitted from enriching, colorful experiences I've since woven into my
novels but also learned how to communicate effectively in three languages and how to be flexible and productive, whatever
the challenges.
My writing started with a 500 page historical (that resided somewhere in the bottom of a closet until my last move,
when it finally went into the shredder,) and then progressed through romances to mystery and suspense. I've also
published short fiction and non-fiction articles and completed the first draft of a screenplay for "tweens" (ages 11-13.)
Always looking for new challenges, while living in Boston, Massachusetts, I produced, wrote, directed
and edited two documentaries that aired on cable access (NewTV13.)
My e-published short contemporary romance and romantic-suspense novels are hopefully only the beginning.
I have many other stories to tell, and I'm a prolific writer, so expect more from me in the near future.
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