Quoth Og Mandino

"Make every hour count and trade each minute only for something of value."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Lee Moyer dissects the cover art of my first two books

This past week, artist Lee Moyer and I lunched at Portland’s Veritable Quandary to discuss cover art for my next two books. Spending time with Lee is always a treat—he can converse brilliantly on a wide range of subjects—but he is never more in his element than when he’s talking about art.

At that lunch, Lee [...]

Today is my birthday but the gifts are all yours

Depending on what data you choose to believe, the average lifespan for an American woman is around 86 years. And as I am posting this within the first few minutes of my 43rd birthday, I stand before you balanced right on the fulcrum of my very existence.

Or, in other words, it’s all downhill [...]

So what’s with this Kickstarter thing you’re doing?

When I was a little girl I used to make my own books out of typewriter paper. I wrote the stories myself, I drew the illustrations, stapled them together, and kept them on my bookshelf.

How excited I would have been in those days, had I been able to gaze into a crystal ball [...]

2012! (Jeez, finally …)

I’m kind of embarrassed that this is my first post of 2012. So let’s see what been going on so far this year, and what there is to look forward to …

I finally got a new camera! Remember how I’m always bitching about how crappy my phone camera is? Well, I broke down [...]

Those were the days …

Once upon a time, I used to blog a lot more. Sometimes even twice a day! Nowadays, a tweet or a brief share to Facebook seems to be all I can manage. It’s kind of sad, because one of the things I liked about regular blogging was that it kept a record of my [...]