Reflections on a Debut Year

My book debut year is coming to an end.  I’m half sad to see it end and half relieved it is behind me. You only have one debut year, just like you only have one first child, and I can’t resist putting these memories into my “baby book” to be savored forever.  If...

POWER TO CHANGE LIVES

  I don’t know about you, but I can still tell you the names of a couple of teachers who had the most profound influence on my life.  One said I would be a teacher someday, and sure enough, she was right.  One said I would never make it as a writer, and I believed her...

Better Late Than Never

  An article in the Oct. 2014 Writer’s Digest caught my attention.  It was titled, “The Late Novel” and it set about to prove, by a healthy list of famous authors, that it’s never too late to write your first novel. Since I’m not the youngest debut author on the...

Breathing the Rarified Air

With Dannye Romine Powell, Book Editor at the Charlotte Observer Last week I was honored to be invited to rub elbows with four NY Times bestseller authors at the Charlotte Observer Holiday Author Event  (https://tinyurl.com/me2n7ke) held at the Mint Museum.  The bad...