Our first visit in about 20 years. Wish we had had more time to explore. I was in the SHRM conference most of the time, but Shelly managed to get to the WWII museum which he just lvoed. One night we ventured out to Frenchmen Street, three streetcars away from Upper Garden District where we stayed. We ate at the Three Muses, which had been recommended. What fun: I love tapas and the shrimp were incredible. Nice band but actually the band in the restaurant down the street (where we drank beer until a spot opened up in Three Muses) was even better. I love to explore so I wish we had more evenings to sample all the restaurants and all the music. We saw the French Quarter in the rain, but h
You never know who'll be on it. Like me, for instance. This morning Pat Rullo in Ohio interviewed me for Speak Up Talk Radio. I had no guidance on how to prepare and decided to just wing it. I'm pleased with how it came out and am beginning to hope that I'm actually getting better at public speaking. Recently I read somewhere that there's a reason writers write - they don't like to speak! Pretty true in my case. Pat is a great interviewer and kept the ball rolling. Hearing her laughter in the background was a great motivator and gave me the confidence to continue with my story. A win-win.
"One Doesn't Trifle with Love," a great collegiate love story, was written AGES ago while "Three Gentlemen Callers" is a recent creation, a love story of sorts for the older generation. Enjoy!
Lucky me, I got to attend the conference again this year, this time in beautiful New Orleans. The weather could have been better: less rain and humidity, less tropical storm Cindy, fewer warnings about possible tornadoes and such, but overall, my days there were exciting. I got to sign a few books of mine, cover a breakout session on workplace investigations (watch for it in HR Journal), and even be videotaped retelling a scary incident from my novel, Dream Job. Can't wait till next year! Trip home not so much fun. Four hour delay, much of which was on the plane, cramped and uncomfortable and starving; being hacked the second night home and unwittingly giving too much info to the hackers
* Updates: I've decided to start a newsletter for our community which will be updated every Friday. Subscribe using the contact page so you don't miss a thing! If you're curious about the world of a writer or about books or about readings or the inner world of characters or. . . * Up & About: Funny (?) photos from Our Week! Marea Needle, our Blue Ink Photographer, takes all the credit. * Caring and Sharing Contest: Win a free book! Here's how this is going to work. Dream Job readers, you remember that Melie had a tough time competing with Ted's multicolored macaw, Gladys, the First Parrot-Woman Gladiator. If you can beat this story (and why couldn't you?), send it in via the Contact page!
I've been neglecting my blog of late. Time to catch up. Dream Job has garnered two awards - that can't be bad. Hoping to see if that fact attracts more readers. Seriously thinking of doing an audiotape as I hear they are "flying off the metaphorical shelves." It seems like a lot of work though - finding the reader, auditioning, figuring out how to distribute and publicize. Oy! Very excited to state that I have a rough draft of 60,000 words on my second novel, tentatively called Inside the Walls of La Roquette. Now comes the hard stuff - revising, finding Beta readers to give me useful critiques, revising. Then finding a developmental editor to spot the real lapses in logic and weaknesses
