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WHEN WRITING GETS HARD AND YOU NEED A PUBLISHER

Posted on July 1, 2020     1 Comment

Here I was in the late summer of 2019 with a completed young adult novel and no place to go. I knew I had revisions ahead of me, so I returned to the advice of my old friend, Margo Dill, from Women on Writing (WOW). She has a website Editor 911 devoted to helping authors […]

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WHEN A DISABILITY MAKES WRITING HARD

Posted on June 14, 2020     5 Comments

The title of this article is taken from #amwiting last year. Another writer discussed how difficult it is to keep working with physical ailments. Some folks know a little of my story. I have not divulged a great deal about what happened to me because I was so engrossed in a comeback to my writing. […]

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THE WORK OF PUBLISHING

Posted on October 31, 2019     4 Comments

How does it begin? Seems simple on the face of it. Meet a publisher or agent at a conference, get their card, and snail mail a copy of your manuscript or send a manuscript file as an attachment. Seems simple enough, right? And in some rare cases, and I do mean rare, it might work. […]

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AN AUTHOR’S PLATFORM

Posted on October 24, 2019     Leave a Comment

It’s another beautiful day here in New Orleans. October brings with it sunny, mild weather and I’m really looking forward to getting outside for a walk. But before I do, I want to write about my PLATFORM. As I began writing my novel, I also checked around with other writers on websites and YouTube. As […]

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New Orleans Proud

Posted on October 14, 2019     1 Comment

Greetings to all on a beautiful Monday in New Orleans. So I’ll start with the ‘city that care forgot’ today. I am expecting some out of town guests later this fall who have only been to this wonderful place for two days, and of course, they visited the French Quarter when they weren’t in conferences. […]

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A LOUISIANA AUTHOR

Posted on October 7, 2019     2 Comments

This is my brand for me new website. Why Louisiana and not just New Orleans? The city where delicious food and jazzy music abound is exciting and mysterious. There is even more to the state, and as I’ve discovered, so much to write about. There are the Acadiana parishes around Lafayette, small Cajun towns along […]

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