The Blog and Me

I appreciated being chosen a 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist last week and being included on Aimee Jodoin’s blog Foreword Reviews along with four other books that she declared “offer hope to teens who suffer from mental illness.”  It is...

What Makes It All Worthwhile

I recently got one of those letters that makes this journey one of the most rewarding of my life. It was from a high school English teacher in a small, rural town. She told me how she recently assigned an independent reading project shortly after the school librarian...
Poetry, it’s in the air, and a family affair!

Poetry, it’s in the air, and a family affair!

April is poetry month, and poets thither and yon are reading, writing, speaking, thinking, and honoring poets and poetry.  Last week I sat in on a gathering of like-minded souls to hear unknown and/or well-known poems read by the authors or poetry lovers. My future...

Two books/two give-aways!

On Saturday, March 7 I had the privilege of sharing the spotlight with two power-house authors at the WNBA-Charlotte Authors’ Showcase. Tamara Jackson, a Certified Group Exercise Instructor through the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) who has appeared on the...