REDWOOD TREES AND US

I love trees. I don’t know why. Trees play a significant role in every one of my books so far. I am so connected to them that whenever I read or hear things about trees those facts or stories generally stick with me. Again, I don’t know why, they just do. In church one Sunday when I was younger I heard someone compare us, the human race, to Redwood trees. (I wish I could remember who said it so that I could give them the credit, but maybe it will be enough for you to know that I didn't think of it first.) I have thought of that comparison many times since this person made me aware of...

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Check me out on Wattpad.com

Hey everyone just wanted to let you know that the short little book I was writing for Wattpad turned into a short little story of around 13,500 words. I decided to shorten it for a contest that they were running in the ChickLit genre which just happened to be the genre of MY EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES ON GA GA ISLAND. It was a happy coincidence so I thought I would go with it. Feel free to check it out if you are in the mood for a light, entertaining read! It really is a lot of fun and a very different style for me. Enj...

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Forever Eating Elephants

     Have you ever eaten an elephant? You know tried do something so big it overwhelmed you? Well, I have eaten a few elephants in my lifetime and I think that I am getting pretty good at it now.           My first elephant was writing my first novel. Wow, that was a hard one to chew! It took me six years and I must say it didn't go down very smoothly—I almost choked to death a few times before I was done.           The next elephant I set my sites on consuming was a 300 mile bike ride in three days. Some of my extended family members completed the ride, and for years that elephant paraded back and forth in front of me begging to be eaten. I finished that elephant fifteen years after I told it I would...

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Life Happened

Okay so it has been a little while since I posted. What is that saying? I think it goes something like this . . . "life is what happens when you are making plans" Well, life happened to me for a little bit and now I am ready to blog. And as the heroine in my newest novel THE UPLANDERS would say, "I know we are going to have a wonderful journey together. I feel it in my center." So to update you all on the writing journey . . . I finished my first Y/A fantasy novel in October. It is the first book of a series I have planned, and after I finished writing it I wondered where fantasy had been all my life . . . I loved the story that much!Publication is also pending on that one but if you are just burning to read more of my work (and I hope you are) keep checking wattpad.com. I have a...

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Welcome!

Hey friends! Thank you for joining me on my brand-new blog! Stay tuned for more updates. I am having so much fun working on the blog, changed my template and will probably change it again. I know it's corny but can't help singing a Whole New World while I work on perfecting it. I never thought I could have this much fun with technolo...

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