It’s here!!! Recently, I pulled out a big envelope from my Winterville post office box. Inside, were my two author’s copies of the October 2011 issue of The Writer magazine. The magazine smelled of fresh ink as I flipped through and found my Breakthrough column, “Conference feedback and an authentic voice led the way to…
“Wanna go to a movie?” My grandmother Myrt asked one hot summer day of my childhood. Our Athens movie theaters, The Palace (a parking garage is there now), and the Georgia Theater (newly rebuilt after a devastating fire) were the only air conditioned places I knew back in the late 1950s, when Myrt issued her…
Winterville’s Front Porch Book Store opened for business one year ago in a tiny building on Marigold Lane that once housed city hall. In just a few short months, this store, which provides funds for the Winterville library, has become a community gathering place, as well as a great source of reading material at reasonable…
I’ve been a published writer for more than 20 years, and since the late 1980s, I’ve written fiction for children and adults, including five or six children’s middle grade novels, a fat, strange novel for adults, and the world’s most horrible romance novel. In 1998, I decided to add “online used and out-of-print bookseller” to…
I had the pleasure of participating in my first Southern Festival of Books in Nashville this weekend. The trip up through the mountains was beautiful and I couldn’t help but remember my only other visit to Nashville as daughter Jenny and I took in the Tennessee sights. It was way back in the 1970s when…
Today I end my blog book tour for Gone From These Woods by stopping by Eddie Suttles’ blog, Georgia Books and Water. Click on the link to visit Eddie’s blog and read an all-new question and answer about writing and publishing my debut children’s middle grade and YA novel. And don’t forget to come back…
Today, I’m stopping by Elizabeth O. Dulemba’s blog for a visit and a question and answer session. Check it out here!
Today I’m stopping by fellow author Lynn Coulter’s blog, Seedlings. Recently, Lynn asked me some interesting questions about my debut novel, GONE FROM THESE WOODS, and I (hopefully!) gave her some interesting answers. You be the judge when you stop by Lynn’s blog. And don’t forget to check out her books!
Today, September 15, 2009, marks the beginning of my GONE FROM THESE WOODS blog book tour. My tour started this morning with a stop at Leandra Nessel’s blog: Madame Queen. Leandra works in the main library at the University of Georgia as a Development Office and moonlights as the Madame Queen on her blog. Check…
I spent a delightful weekend at the 4th Annual AJC Decatur Book Festival and I must say, IT WAS THE BEST ONE YET! Don’t get me wrong, I’ve attended all four DBFs and they’ve all been outstanding. But there were three things — no make that four things — about this year’s festival that made…
