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What “The Sandlot” Can Teach Us About Writing Memoir (Lesson #1)
You know how sometimes you take one day off from your life and then you spend the next 4 being punished for it? My Memorial Day weekend in Saint Louis was well worth the time off from the interweb, the...
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What “The Sandlot” Can Teach Us About Writing Memoir (Lesson #2)
I meant to get Lesson 2 up earlier in the weekend than Sunday morning, but I think you’ll understand the delay when I tell you that I spent the time finishing my second book, “There Is No Why Here”....
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What “The Sandlot” Can Teach Us About Writing Memoir (Lesson #3)
Happy Tuesday! I’m pulling off another 10 minute burst of blogging-while-stuffing-my-face-with-lunch, so without further adieu, let’s play ball! Click here if you need to play catch up on Lesson #1 and...
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What “The Sandlot” Can Teach Us About Writing Memoir (Lesson #4)
Click here if you need to catch up on Lessons 1-3! I’m a fair weather baseball fan – literally. I hate watching baseball on TV, but I love going to a live game. Given this, it might seem odd that I’m...
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Why A Borrow Is As Valuable As A Sale
As an author trolling the blogosphere, I see a lot of posts/questions about sales numbers. These questions range from ridiculous (When will I be a bestseller? My book that hasn’t been edited or given a...
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Spinning Criticisim: An Unexpected Lesson In Writing
I have a very small family. Well, let me be more accurate - I have a very small family that I still speak to. There is a larger family in Missouri that I used to be a part of, back before Dad’s plane...
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The One Time My Dad’s Ghost Scared The Bejeezus Out Of Me
SInce my ghost post yesterday has stirred up some conversation – and some laughter for those who think my husband is oh so funny and I’m a big baby! – I’ve decided to tell you about the one time I’m...
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Trying Something New
For 11 years – the first notwithstanding – I’ve taken July 1st off of everything. The first few years I hid in my bedroom watching television. I usually didn’t want to see anyone. I really tried my...
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This Is What I Know
I won’t write a long post about July 1 and how it feels today for me to realize it’s been 13 years since N256DN went down in that field. I’ve written a book that says just about all I can say on the...
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Guess Who Finally Finalized A Book Blurb (hint hint – it’s me!)
If you follow me on Facebook, you may remember that my darling yet evil husband has been taunting me with a book cover for my new book There Is No Why Here for weeks now. He won’t let me see it until I...
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Oh Baby, Do I Have An Announcement For You!
Announcement #1: I am the last person to use motherhood (wow, still weird to say) as an “excuse” for not meeting writing goals and deadlines. So while I haven’t been the most active of ladies on the...
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Tips To Avoid A Memoir Backfire
I’ve mentioned Dawson’s Creek a few times on this blog, and I’m about to do it again. It’s not just because I was a kid of the 1990′s who happened to be one year behind the fictional Capeside kids and...
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My Biggest Tip For Working In CreateSpace
I have to laugh at how absolutely clueless I was while preparing Taking Flight for publication. It’s okay to be clueless - obviously I have a ton to learn about this business! But as I wrap up book 2,...
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Do We Have The Right To Review A Book We Didn’t Finish?
I haven’t checked my reviews in a while, mostly because the nerve wracking tension of waiting for the screen to refresh and show me how good or bad readers thought Taking Flight was can’t be good for...
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Bloomberg Businessweek’s Cover: Costly Mistake Or Genius Marketing Tactic?
I was blindly sorting the mail at work yesterday when a co-worker walked by and asked what I thought of the cover of Bloomberg. I hadn’t been paying attention – I sort a huge pile of mail every day and...
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Is The Secret To Self-Publishing Success The Size Of Your Inventory?
Every now and again, prestigious newspapers feature stories on self-publishing. Yesterday, the WSJ had a short article on four different authors and their routes and reasons why they self-published...
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Day Jobs and Dreamers – A Lesson From “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead”
I’m 29 years old and sometimes I feel like I’ve never left the responsibilities of my first job. As an aide in a toddler room, I was told immediately upon being hired that I was the grunt worker. I...
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Bringing Taking Flight To Oshkosh
Oshkosh AirVenture is coming up in less than a week. For you non-aviation folks this may not be a big deal, but for those of you who are even somewhat in touch with the aviation community, you know...
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Oshkosh Memorial Ceremony
I’m posting from my phone for the first time ever, so forgive me if I butcher this. I’m at the EAA Memorial wall, awaiting the start of the 2013 ceremony. There are tears drying on my cheeks and...
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The Girl and the Pineapple
I ventured to Oshkosh for the first time in years. I had promised myself that I would go and see the Memorial Wall once I had finished my first book. Taking Flight was published in October 2012, and I...
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