A little late

What is the measure for snowmen? Should you build them as big as you are or as big as you think they should be? This was the snow earlier this month. Alabama doesn't get enough snow to build a snowman often, this was a treat for the girls.

Summertime and the living is easy

I'm soooooo ready for warmer weather. Wish everyone at the Springmingle, good luck with critiques and wish I was there but money, budgets and work makes it impossible to make all the events I would like to attend. I'm looking forward to the Historical fiction workshop in Nashville on the 13th.

I did something today I've not done in many years... I took Kane and Ella to a birthday skate party at the skating rink and I skated... yep the old girl still has it ... well not as smooth as it was thirty years ago but I went forward and backward and I only had to balance out of a near fall once. You know arms waving and skates making that thump thump sound as you try to get them under your body.

Who knows I might go bungee jumping next...NOT

Well it has been awhile since I posted something I wrote... this is the first page of the very first thing I tried to write...




Prologue


Spring’s first breath had renewed life in the middle Tennessee countryside. The red bud trees in the back yard were starting to show their colors and the cottonwood tree down by the barn had put out purple buds. Buttercups, tulips and crocuses bloomed in the flowerbeds around the porch. Katherine Conner gazed out the screen door, but she didn’t see any of God’s springtime glory. All she saw was the little black and white dog waiting at the end of the sidewalk. Belle, Joey’s blue heeler stared down the driveway. She was looking for Joey.
Katherine walked outside and sat down on the porch steps, then called Belle to her. Looking into the dog’s intelligent eyes, Katherine sobbed.
“He’s never coming back, you know. There’s no need to sit and wait for him.” Sitting on the porch steps, holding onto her dead husband’s faithful dog, Katherine released the heartache of the past two days.


Okay I confess, I removed three adverbs and two passive sentences before I pasted it in this blog. HA

When is it time to stop playing around?

Okay, I'm in a cycle here and I can't get out... hahahaha that makes me think of that commercial "Help I've fallen and I can't get up!" See... I'm in a cycle here... I can't stay focused on things. I'm quilting one minute, playing with the dog the next, watching American Idol the next (and darn I only picked one of the four that was booted) and then I have my notebook doodling... YES I said doodling not writing. This new short story is running in my brain all the time and I keep changing it. Okay... I'm writing it down so it has to happen... I will write Flamingo Rodeo this weekend. I will not quilt, play with the dog..I will fed her and if a ball gets thrown, so be it, but I won't call it play...I will not write in my notebook or any single sheet of paper but sit and type this story from my brain into a word doc
Okay I feel better.

I feel like the Panda at the top... it was fun getting there but what do you do now??

March is Celebrate Women's History

How to Celebrate Women’s History @ Your Library
Telling the story of women’s work is never done.

I pulled the picture and blurb from the ALA magazine. Find women that helped shape America then write an article or book about her Here is the link to the entire article.

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/womenshistory2010

Focusing on women as a library market segment offers so many more creative opportunities for reaching out to your community
“Writing Women Back into History” is the theme for National Women’s History Month, March 2010, the annual celebration of women in the United States. For years women’s contributions were routinely underestimated or ignored even in the history of our own profession. While this still remains the case for much of history, the second wave of feminism reinvigorated interest in, and work on, “women’s history” at the academic and community levels. Now children learn about Sojourner Truth as well as Betsy Ross and we understand that Abigail Adams contributed to the founding of this country as did her husband, John, our nation’s second president.

Making my list and checking it twice

I was looking through blogs and checking 'Coming Soon' at Amazon and Books-A-Million making my wish list for books that will be released in the next three or four months. Here is one that I'm going to look at when it's released. Has anyone done a arc read on this book.

Monster Slayers written by Lukas Ritter Release date 05-10-2010

When vicious, dog-headed gnolls kidnap everyone living in the small village of Hesiod, only Evin and his fighter friend Jorick manage to escape. With help from an ancient guidebook of magical beasts called A Practical Guide to Monsters, the two boys and a new friend--elf wizard Betilivatis--must trek through ancient ruins and face one menacing monster after another in order save their families.

But Evin soon realizes that not everything is as it seems. Someone--or something--has taken leadership of the gnolls and has dangerous plans for the kidnapped villagers. Betilivatis often disappears mysteriously and has strange conversations with someone only she can see. And Evin is having unusual dreams of a place he's never been, a place that feels more and more real with each passing day.

The pace never falters in this page-turning adventure, as Evin, Jorick, and Betilivatis bravely battle gnolls, a chimera, an ormyrr, and a lich, and it ends with a shocking twist that will make readers want to start the story all over again.

I'm chuckling to myself because my spell check went crazy on that posted review. hahaha

More titles to come

which jacket ...?

Now I need some city girl help here... I'm country and wouldn't be caught in the pink one but I sort of like the other one. Of course both of these are expensive and way out of my price range, but you know if I sell this story I might just treat myself to the little black one.

Just for your information the boots yesterday were on sale at the site I found them on...389.00 regular 500.00 lets go buy two pair hahahahha

Just because the shoe fit ... it might not fit the situation

You know yesterday I said my character was like a flamingo at a rodeo... here are the boots that get her into a romantic situation... what do you think, cute or totally wrong.

Wait, I know they are wrong but Carrie is city not country girl... city girl that is a girlie girl and has never been to a rodeo. Now, cute or wrong.

Hayden is going to save her... I'm going post opinions for her jacket tomorrow.

Hey I might be old but I didn't have to look on the Internet to get ideas for what Hayden would wear or how he looks ... uuuulalala... What? It doesn't hurt to look at the menu as long as you don't order. :) Okay let me state that this is not a children's story but adult romance with a little heart fluttering and goo goo eyes but that is all. How much can you put in 800 words.