high anxiety
Pub date October 17 Yikes. I am anxious. Sigh. I ask myself one hundred times a day, why can't you just enjoy the adventure?If you read Rain Dodging, you will…
Kill Your Darlings
Almost two years ago, CBS Sunday Morning correspondent David Pogue paid tribute to his mentor Stephen Sondheim after his death. The subject of editing came up. I’d just talked to my daughter on…
O-M-G, Chat GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformer
Just when I wondered, what will I blog about next, I learned about Chat GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer), a state-of-the-art language processing AI model developed by OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence research laboratory founded in…
Toro, Toro, Toro
Guillermo del Toro’s animated Pinocchio is set for release today, Friday, December 9, on Netflix. Unlike most versions, which take place in an unspecified time in the 1800s, del Toro confirmed that…
Here’s to You, Erica Jong! An Author’s Powerful Feminist Voice.
Regal Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle was the most talked-of ‘learned lady’ of the Restoration period, 1660-1688. She wrote in her own name in a period when most women writers remained anonymous. In her preface to Observations…
Final-ly!
I read my manuscript this week in a hard copy, my final draft before returning it to my developmental editor. Yikes! I would like to re-introduce you to my vision…
The Flood: A True Story
Our car pulled up the driveway. Summer was officially over. Six weary travelers trudged to the back door. My mother was carrying 6-year old Casey, who was sound asleep. Father…
Meet Genevieve, My Ideal Reader
One of the processes of publishing is to identify the 'Ideal Reader." Here is mine: I visualize my readers in a rally-like crowd, for some reason, women aged 30-75, all…
What’s Going On With Rain Dodging?
I am entering an exciting phase in the publishing process for Rain Dodging: Connecting Royal History, Travel, and a Woman’s Personal Journey,* Fall 2023, She Writes Press. A few weeks ago,…