Nov 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Winter, we keep saying, is coming. Even though it was sixty degrees yesterday, and there isn’t much snow in the mountains. We need a big winter here. Last year was disastrous for this state and especially for Washington. The good thing about winter is that it...
Oct 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
All I’m saying is, if you have accomplished something, you’d better be ready. Not that reporters have been flocking to my door, but one came from our local paper. He was very nice about a) me wanting to sit outside instead of in; and b) my cat, Puffin,...
Oct 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
1. Even if you start out thinking, it’s enough just to publish a book even if only my mom reads it, you will eventually start thinking bigger. Like, I want to sell a bunch of copies! Oprah, are you there? 2. Even though you carefully did not base any characters...
Oct 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
When you sign with a small publisher, they don’t have the money to send every author out on a book tour. I have no regrets with my publisher at all, though it would be nice to travel and get paid for it. (I guess that’s called “work travel” and...
Sep 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
I got my book in the mail today! And the first thing I thought was…it’s so…tiny. It’s not many pages at all, and I spent so many years on it. Shouldn’t it be more? But it is what it is, I could have put some filler in, in the end though,...
Sep 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hello out there! Does anyone read this? I’ve been absent for a variety of reasons: house under evacuation order, working on fire support for the past three weeks… Once I let a co-worker read an essay I had written. “It’s so..personal,” he...
