I’ve discovered that, as a writer who writes by the seat of her jeans, that something else keeps creeping into my storylines. They are what I call the Backstreet Capers: those little teaser storylines that seem to have nothing to do with the book’s subject manner and are often seen as played for laughs. So I’m starting a contest called the CHICKEN CAPER.
In today’s fiction my main character is certain to be female and forty plus, sometimes decades plus, yet she will still be a vital, smart, sensually attractive, HARD-WORKING fully-alive human being. Fiction has caught up with a Baby Boomer truth: Life doesn’t end at forty or fifty. It doesn’t even slow down.
The Sisterhood Outreach Summit and Showcase in Memphis, TN June 6-7 2009
Ma’Dear, Momma, & Me Mother’s Day Event
Eureka Springs this weekend at the annual BOOKS IN BLOOM Writers and Readers Festival!
I’m now part of the Youtube experience, thanks to my publisher. Here’s the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvUiWmBX2rE.
I know. It’s been a week since I blogged. Broke a promise I made to myself to blog at least 3 times a week. I better have a very good excuse. I have FIVE. You’ll get one a day for the next five days:
1) I’ve been out of town
I flew to NYC last Sunday to [...]
Photo by Gary W. Paris
For the past month, I’ve been in full promotion mode. That means I’m spending hours each day, checking the web for book clubs, online reading groups, and because of the subject matter of LOVE ON THE LINE, answering questions on threads about African American, biracial, and multi-ethnic people at sites like MULTIPLICITY, GENERATION-MIXED, AFRICAN AMERICANS ON [...]
It’s Thursday. I’ve done three radio interviews this week:
ARTS SCENE
#4 is a written interview.Will be published and then posted on the website soon.
Read my work at a Honors English Society engagememt at UAPB onMonday. Prepared and taught a creative writing workshop on [...]
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