Hi everyone! Well, it looks like I have a lot more work to do than I expected on my next book. So….I’ve essentially started over with revisions and racing to beat the clock. 🙂 So, if I don’t answer comments right away, you’ll know why, but I will set aside time to answer all comments at least once a day! …
Happy 2020
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Year and that 2020 will be Grreattt! as Tony the Tiger used to say. I never thought I would hear myself say that I like routine, but it’s nice to be back in a routine! With the holidays coming in the middle of the week, Wednesday seemed like Monday, which made …
Last Week’s Answer and Winner~
This will be my last blog post for 2019…I’ll be getting ready for Christmas and working on Crosshairs, the second book in the Natchez Trace park ranger series. Although there is a chance the book will be renamed Obsession. We’ll see. I’d like to take a minute to thank you for reading my blog each week. I love the comments you make …
Fun Facts Week 3
I love this time of year and often think back to my childhood. Christmas was a magical time, even though we didn’t have much money. In late October the Sears Roebuck Toy Catalogue would arrive in the mail and I would spend time going through it, looking for cap pistols, not dolls even though this photo of my sister and …
Fun Facts
Edits are in. Check. Christmas Tree is up. Check. My own porcelain ornaments that I’ve made over the years dabbling around in clay are hung. Check. Air horn is under said Christmas tree. Check. Blog post up…not checked. But since you are reading this, it is now up. 😉 It’s been a busy week trying to finish edits which I …
More Strange Facts
I was rolling right along with my NaNoWrMo count this week when edits for Standoff, the first Natchez Park Rangers book came in! So I abandoned ship. 🙂 I finished said edits Thursday night and will now read through the manuscript once more before turning it in the first of the week. Then I’ll go back to working on the …
Little Known Facts
I’m at Camp NaNoWrMo starting my second week participating in NaNoWrMo (National Novel Writing Month), and I’m on target to hit the 50,000-word goal…if I keep writing 1667 words each day. While you’re supposed to start a new project, I didn’t. I have that February deadline, and I’m using NaNo to push me through the first draft! Actually this won’t …
A Few Dumb Crooks
A week has passed and we discovered we’d been hit by Hurricane Olga three hundred and fifty miles from the coast. Most of the power has been restored to our community and I want to thank all the wonderful workers at ACE Power here in Alcorn County for their hard work! And for the men in my church for calling …
What Do You Do When Your Power Is Out?
You write a blog post! Whew! As I sit here typing on my laptop, I’m thankful the backup battery had a full charge when the power went out about seven hours ago. Before dark fell, power saws droned in the background as people in my small town picked up debris left behind after either straight-line winds or an F1 tornado …
More Insurance Claims
Autumn has finally arrived in North Mississippi! While it’s been close to 75 degrees this weekend, there is still a nip in the air. Unfortunately, we had a really wet summer and then it turned off hot and dry, so our leaves aren’t turning like the usually do. In fact, I’m afraid they’re going to go from green straight to …