Why write?
When the words aren’t flowing and the manuscript gets rejected and your back hurts from too many hours at the computer, writing sucks. After fifteen completed novels, it doesn’t get any easier. The...
View Article50 Resolutions in 50 Days Before I’m 50: Resolution 7
I’m at the 7 week mark and my resolutions have been swallowed up by my busy life. Excuses abound. I have to go to a meeting or be in court, I have to drop off or pick up the kids from school or...
View ArticleFifty Resolutions in Fifty Weeks Before I’m Fifty. Resolutions 9 and 10
So I missed blogging last week and therefore, I’m throwing a resolution at the problem. My ninth resolution is to write at least one blog post every week. Perhaps the power of the resolutions will...
View Article50 Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: 12 – More Meditation
Does meditation work? For me, yes. My mind runs in circles. It’s not gathering amazing bits of information for future books. Not generally. Most of the time, the focus of my thoughts involve a lack of...
View Article50 Resolutions Before I’m 50: Number 13 Being Happy with Me
I had new author photos taken this past weekend. I found the most amazing photographer, Lori Mann, who looks at photos as art and helped me show the exact feeling I wanted to portray. After having...
View Article50 Resolutions Before I’m 50: Number 15 Live My Passion, No Matter What
Today is my daughter’s last day of high school. It’s hitting me harder than it is her. I taught her to read and homeschooled her until seventh grade when I thrust her into a school setting and told...
View ArticleResolution: Keeping Sane When Everything Falls Apart.
New Orleans in 2005 and 2015 So everything fell to sh*t last week. I made a stupid assumption that if I worked hard, I could control the outcomes in my legal practice, my writing career, my family...
View ArticleFifty Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: Aren’t you 50 Yet?
A lot of people have been asking me when the hell I’m turning fifty, since I’ve been blogging on and off about the transition for over a year. The truth is, I’ll be fifty in February. My goal was to...
View ArticleFifty Resolutions Before I’m Fifty: Pacing
My newest resolution? Working at a solid, steady pace, not rushing myself into an unworkable frenzy. For the past few weeks, I’ve been finishing a book. It’s done. In the process, I fell away from...
View ArticleI am Fifty
It’s here. I’m beginning my fiftieth year. Fifty. It’s been a long road to get where I am through swamps, over mountains, across oceans, and under my covers. I spent the last year trying out fifty new...
View ArticleWhy write?
When the words aren’t flowing and the manuscript gets rejected and your back hurts from too many hours at the computer, writing sucks. After fifteen completed novels, it doesn’t get any easier. The...
View ArticleCOVER REVEAL!
The cover is here for Christmas Blizzard Rescue. The book is up for pre-orders and will be released on October 24, 2023. Pre order now at AMAZON BARNES AND NOBLE KOBU BOOKS-A-MILLION...
View ArticleMy favorite heroine is back!
My favorite heroine is back! Untrue Colors by Veronica Forand It’s been two years since Untrue Colors has been available. The book is now up on Amazon and available on Kindle Unlimited. Enjoy the...
View Article