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To-Do on the Business End of Writing Read all those emails from the writers and entrepreneurs that already know what I need to know. Make...

YIKES! (That’s the nicest word I could think of.) Are you telling me I have to get out there and talk to people and collaborate with...

I was looking for a quote for the graphic on Ms. Gabaldon's website and found one that looked interesting. However, it didn't make much...

High above Fifth Avenue, Wahoo the Raven daydreamed on his string bag hammock. His iridescent black feathers sparkled in the sun. What...

After putting out my first book last week, I had an endless list of things to do to market it. I was overwhelmed and exhausted and could...

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Chapter 1 A New Beginning Nana’s memorial service (arranged by Sophia MacGregor, Life Celebration Planner Extraordinaire) was over....

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I was deciding what to write about today and then it occurred to me. What else could I write about but my anxiety about getting...

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Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...

Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day. The consistency, the monotony, the certainty, all vagaries and passions are...

In June, I began building a new website and updating social media sites from a composer/writer frame to an indie children’s book author...

One of the major themes of Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series is the creation of her own unique family as an orphan. This would...

I try to begin my day in stillness each morning. I admit to a fetish for candlelight and prefer votive candles in stained glass holders...