Aug 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
There I was, at dinner with a co-worker. We were far from home in a tiny town, after a day of roaming the woods and puzzling over a project we had been assigned to analyze. I don’t know how it came up, but this person who shall not be named revealed a personal...
Jul 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve given up feeling guilty for not writing more this summer. There’s just..so much. The summer is really short here, and I feel compelled to be outside as much as I can, as much as working ten hour days will let me. There’s time in winter, those...
Jul 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve now sold two books, one with an agent and one without. Before I had ever sold one, I read many opinions on which was “better.” I’ve decided that it really depends on YOU. Do you want to be in control at all times? An agent may not be for...
Jun 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sometimes my life just takes an unbelievable turn. My agent emailed me last week and said that my memoir, which she has been shopping for some time, had received an offer. Since I am the least business minded person ever, I wanted to scream, TAKE IT. This, however, is...
Jun 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I sometimes hear rumblings from authors about people passing books around to friends or checking out from the library. Maybe I’m just not monetarily motivated, but this doesn’t bother me. After all, I love the library. Once I lived in a sagebrush town,...
Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
We don’t have home mail delivery in my town. Even though the post office is only half a mile away, getting there during its open hours seems to require ridiculous feats of time management. I often realize it has been weeks since I got my mail. What’s not...
