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Weekly
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January
is National Mentoring Month
XX“Once
you are ready for a mentor,
the mentor will appear.
But it’s going to
take a while. As a beginner,
you are supposed to be working
on your writing practice,
showing up daily for work.
What’s the point of
having a mentor if you aren’t
writing, and getting comfortable
good mental habits?
XXThe
mentor isn’t going
to write for you.
XXDon’t
waste your mentor coupon.”
~Heather Sellers, American
author, teacher, and writing
coach in Page after
Page: Discover the Confidence
& Passion You Need to
Start Writing & Keep
Writing
XX“[P]ractice
and coaching are the two
means by which we learn
just about everything we
know. Firsthand knowledge
and secondhand knowledge
are the only two kinds of
knowledge there are, and
no matter what task we master—pooping,
cooking, investing, bobsledding—that
mastery is always a product
of direct experience and/or
of listening to those who
have had direct experience.”
~Daniel Gilbert,
American psychologist and
Harvard professor in Stumbling
on Happiness
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October Celebrates a LOT of Things! |
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October celebrates a lot
of national months: Breast Cancer
Awareness, Domestic Violence Awareness,
Family History, Hispanic Heritage, Italian
American Heritage, LGBTQ+ History,
Women's Small Business Month,
and many, many more. There's even October
recognition months for pickled peppers,
apples, pork, cookies, pizza, popcorn,
pasta, pretzels, biscuits, and more!
The "celebrations"
that speak to me at the moment, however,
are Emotional Wellness Month, Depression
Awareness Month, and Positive Attitude
Month. With all of the stress of the
pandemic, politics, wars and withdrawals,
the economy and unemployment, and ever
so many deaths from gun violence, it's
easy to feel depressed and a lot harder
to maintain our emotional wellness.
So I'm going to focus on these three
Recognition Months and try to avoid
depression, have a positive attitude,
and foster emotional wellness in me
and in others. Let me know if you need
a pep talk!
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10/3/21 |
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New Glasses |
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Along with getting new glasses (now that
my right eye is healing!), I have been
cutting my hair all by myself since Covid
hit, and I do believe I'm doing pretty
well! The first time I accidently ran
the clippers up the back of my head and
balded myself! I tried to "even it
out" and ruined the whole back of
my noggin. Fortunately, my hair grows
fast, but I was still forced to deal with
wearing a cap for close to three weeks.
By the third attempt, I had it down, and
I do believe I will continue to do it
even after the pandemic is over. That's
$20-30 bucks I could be spending on books
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9/21/21 |
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Labor Day Greetings! |
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Peter J. McGuire, a carpenter
and labor union leader, was the person
who came up with the idea for Labor
Day. He thought American workers should
be honored with their own day. He proposed
his idea to New York's Central Labor
Union early in 1882, and they thought
the holiday was a good idea, too.
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It's Independence Day ~ 4th of July! |
A
great big thank you to the service women
and men who protect our country at risk
to their own lives. And with praise
and gratitude to those who remain faithful
to the ideals of this "Great Experiment":
to maintain allegiance to the Republic
and to foster one nation, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for ALL.
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New Post at Women & Words |
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CLICK
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article,
Pandemic
Puzzles
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What I've Been Thinking about Lately |
And I've
also come to realize that I'm not doing
a very good job carving out time for
my writing. This week from today until
Sunday the 28th, Jessie Chandler is
here, and we're having a mini-writing
retreat to move forward on our novels.
Wish us luck!
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New Post at Women & Words |
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CLICK
HERE to read the newest article,
Suits Me To A Tee
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3/8/21 |
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New Post at WOMEN & WORDS |
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the wake of the election, I wrote a post at
Women & Words titled Together
We Rise.
CLICK
HERE to read about my delight that Kamala
is representin' for us now and also a little
bit of commentary about who helped push the
dems over the top to victory.
If you missed last month's post, Life
is Short ~ But the Days and Nights are Long,
then
CLICK
HERE. |
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11/8/20 |
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De-Stressing Ideas During the Coronavirus Pandemic |
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4/8/20 |
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New Review of GUN SHY |
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after all these years, someone periodically reviews
my novel, Gun Shy. The latest generous
soul is the incomparable Ruth Hohnke writing at
DIVA. CLICK
HERE to read what she has to say! |
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Check out this Interview! |
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Jessie Chandler and I had some things to say
when we were recently interviewed by Shawn Marie
Bryan
CLICK
HERE to listen! |
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One of my favorite people on the planet
and a great mystery writer, Ellen Hart,
with me at Once Upon a Crime Mystery Bookstore
in Minneapolis |
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Lee Lynch talks with me in THE ADVOCATE
on "Lesbian Mystery, Police Raids,
and Fairy Godmothers" |
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had the great honor of doing an Advocate
conversation with award-winning GCLS
Trailblazer Lee Lynch. |
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Time's
Rainbow: Writing Ourselves Back Into American History
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Sparking
Creativity
Excerpt
Coming
Soon!
Pub Est.:
Winter
2022
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Pub Date:
May 31, 2017
TIME'S RAINBOW
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Lesbians
on the
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Jump
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| Movie
Trailers
for the Books |
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Brenda Adcock's wizardry, there are now movie trailers,
complete with music, for two of my books. Click below
to see - make sure you turn on your speakers, too. |
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Shimmer
& Other Stories |
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Snow
Moon Rising |
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| Bound/Printed
Books |
| My novels and short story collections
can be purchased through any bookseller or online. If
a store doesn't happen to have copies on hand, they will
order them for you. CLICK
HERE if you want to contact me to get autographed
copies. |
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| E-Books
at
Bella Distribution |
| The gals at Bella carry books by an
enormous variety of authors, and they're distributing
my eBooks and print books. CLICK
HERE to get the books in Mobi and ePub formats.
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| Kobo
E-Books |
| Kobo Ebooks also carries LGBT books
by a variety of authors. CLICK
HERE to get my books for the Kobo eReader. |
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| Kindle
E-Books |
| Amazon.com carries my books in the
Kindle E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Kindle eReader. |
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| B&N
E-Books |
| Barnes & Noble - BN.com - carries
my books in their Nook E-Book format. CLICK
HERE to purchase novels and short story
collections for your Nook eReader. |
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| Recent
Interviews |
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| A.J. Llewellyn at Dark Diva's Blog did an extensive
interview with me. CLICK
HERE to find out all my deep dark secrets.
The interview shows up on the March 4 entry. |
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| VIDEO
INTERVIEW
- With Jody Seay, the amazing interviewer at
Oregon PBS's "Back Page" program,
who sat down and talked to me for her weekly
TV program with Pacific NW writers |
| CLICK
HERE - for the interview with author
Jae who has written so many wonderful novels |
| CLICK
HERE to read an interesting discussion
in the "Spotlight Interview" section
that the gals at Ylva have been doing |
| Earl Kemp's online 'zine, eI,
has featured a memoir piece I wrote called "There
is No Reason Not To Trust that the Act of Writing
Will Be Enough."
CLICK
HERE if you'd like to read it. |
| MYSTERICAL-E
featured a long interview with me about
writing, creativity, book themes, etc. There
are several great stories featured in this issue
as well as other podcasts and interviews by
a variety of terrific authors. |
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