Category: About a Blog

  • Feeling Published

    Remember flame wars? In 2002, this same week, I got torched on a Yahoo Fan Page. Which led me to leave a group I’d really loved. It was so hard, and so much on my mind, I told my son about it. I shocked myself when cried a little bit before wiping my tears away…

  • Stealth Book Giveaway

    In September, my blog birthday month, I like to do nice things for people who visit my website. A few years ago, I extended the giveaway to my friends on social media. This year I did myself one better. I had an IRL spontaneous giveaway of my new novel. It was so fun. Everything just…

  • September Surprises

    It’s September, which is the month, 16 years ago, I started blogging on this site. It continues to be such a joy to me and I love interacting with my readers. I have arranged with my publisher to put the Kindle edition (also Nook and ePub) of my new release Lily White in Detroit on…

  • 15 Years

    15 Years

    15 years ago this month I started this blog. Back then, I called it “A Writer’s Diary” as a  homage to the Virginia Woolf book of the same name, the one with all the writing related entries from her journals assembled by her husband after her death. I read Woolf and other writers’ biographies, memoirs,…

  • Last Post

    Last Post

    I just bought a home in a Florida beach town. I’ve lived in Michigan all my life except for a brief season in Key West when I was on the brink of twenty and recovering from a teenage marriage. I still live in Michigan, as my husband is not yet retired and I very much…