A Writer Who Loves Flowers
Some days you just have to go and hang with flowers.
I hope your day is filled with books, flowers, and peace.
Do You Have Premonitions?
One woman on an island who sees things she doesn’t want to see.
Two eccentric aunts in floppy, flowery hats.
One mother who lied. What could go wrong?
All About Evie, out October 29th.
A Scratched, Dented Violin And A New Story
Years ago I was in a dusty, old violin shop in our downtown buying Adventurous Singing Daughter a violin.
She was very young and she loved playing the violin when she wasn’t playing outside. The one we bought was 80 years old. There were a few scratches and dents.
There was a slight stain that looked like blood in a butterfly shape. It played beautifully.
She loved it.
When I left that shop the spark for this story, The First Day Of The Rest Of My Life, was in my head and churning/spinning around.
It’s on sale for less than six bucks now.
https://www.amazon.com/First-Day-Rest-My-Life-ebook/dp/B004SIDTTE/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Listening To A Cookbook…
My novel, No Place I’d Rather Be, is on sale, as an audiobook, for $3.99.
Do you like cookbooks? Recipes? History?
Then you might like this one. Olivia Martindale finds a 100 year old cookbook in her family’s attic buried in a box. Her ancestors wrote the recipes, and their life stories, within the pages.
Now if only her Grandma would tell her about her secretive past…
https://www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/338547?fbclid=IwAR19Alw0ty8wm5cQ-ictizPbbj2Lcai3Yf01SL-dVDaYdT6Kr5uiyB9isUo
An Island. A Secret. Floppy, Flowered Hats
Coming October 29th…
Have you been to the San Juan Islands? Then you know where All About Evie is set…
Evie Lindsay has premonitions. They’ve haunted her her whole life.
There’s one premonition that ends her life. Maybe. Possibly.
In the meantime, she runs her bookstore and hangs out with her mother and aunts who wear floppy hats and do crazy things.
Montana And A Tired Writer
Sometimes Montana calls my name.
Or, uh, maybe it’s my fun and funny sisters begging me to move there and live next door. Hard to tell…
Innocent Husband Cracks Me Up
Innocent Husband cracks me up sometimes. Well, often.
We’re sitting around drinking coffee, reading the newspaper, the kids’ cats all over meowing, and he says, as if TOTALLY exasperated and shocked,
“This is HORRIBLE. Kylie Jenner officially unfollowed Jordan Woods on Instagram. Well, it’s about time!”
I thought his eyes were going to roll so far back into his head he would lose them.
And on we go, creaking along…
A Wedding Dress In A Tree
I can’t believe that it has been 12 years since my first book, Julia’s Chocolates, was released. By then I had had many discouraging, head-bashing rejections of other books, and if Julia’s Chocolates hadn’t sold I was going back to teaching school. The kids were getting older and I had to save for college.
So, this was it. If it was a no-go with Julia’s Chocolates, I would have been teaching about the Oregon Trail and multiplication tables come fall. I sent 40 pages of Julia‘s Chocolates to three agents and an editor. I never heard from the editor. The agents all wanted to see the full book. I had not written one more word past those initial 40 pages. I figured it was going to be rejected anyhow, so why put more effort into it?
Finally, my favorite agent, the one who I am still with, asked for it. Then I told a tiny lie, I said, “I need to do a little more editing, then I’ll send it back to you.” Ha! So, with three young kids and a freelance writing job for our state’s newspaper, my schedule was packed.
I wrote from 10 at night until 2 in the morning for months. And then…miraculously, unbelievably, the agent liked it, my publishing house liked it, and it sold.
The first scene is of a woman throwing her wedding dress up into a dead tree on a deserted street in North Dakota. It’s dusty, it’s hot, and she’s crying. It was an image I had in college. Julia’s Chocolates is my favorite book. I hope you like it. It’s on sale for less than six bucks.
Distractions And Signing Up For My Newsletter
Friends,
I am easily distracted by Innocent Husband, Darling Laughing Son, Adventurous Singing Daughter, and Rebel Dancing Daughter.
They call, I want to talk. They want to go and have fun with Mom, I’m on it. Innocent Husband wants to take me out fishing, I’ll read a book like a pro in the boat and eat nutritious cookies.
Plus, I like to laugh at my weird cats and garden and read books.
However, now and then, rarely, hardly ever, I do gather myself together and put out a newsletter. If you would like to sign up for my newsletter, you can do so below. If you put your name and email in and then hit SUBSCRIBE it will instantly vanish. Don’t worry, it went through.
Cheers and happy reading to all.
