Kineo!

Mt. Kineo is prominently featured in Waiting for Spring.
Here it is, taken by my daughter today. (On Moosehead Lake in Rockwood, Maine.)

Purely shameless plug

I'm excited to announce that Readers and Writers Blog will begin serializing
Waiting for Spring tomorrow,
Sunday, May 11.

Readers and Writers Blog was founded by a gentleman by the name of Sid Leavitt, a retired newspaper editor who once worked at the Portland* Press Herald. The site's official description: "a combination website-weblog that promotes good writing. We give writers a place to publish their nonfiction, fiction or poetry of any length at no cost and give readers a place to comment on that work." But what it is, really, is a haven for writers and a treasure trove for readers.

Currently posted work includes Gerard Jones' Ginny Good; Disconnected by J. Cafesin; and Leavitt's own Adrift in America. Needless to say I'm rather humbled by my own pending inclusion in this company, and would have touted this website even if my novel had not been accepted. The fact that it was makes it all the sweeter. So check out Waiting for Spring beginning tomorrow, along with the other very excellent writing available there.

[Note: the copy of WFS in the photo is one I had self-published at Lulu.com for my own editing purposes.]

* Maine, not Oregon

All on a rainy Saturday...

The apple orchard shivered:



The robin searched for lunch:



And Kel's grey hair screamed, "Holy shit,woman! Where'd you hide the dye?":

What's a gal to do when the power goes out...

...during a horrible ice storm?

Well, she's gonna write...naturally.

Script Frenzy kicks off in 26 days. I'm going to spend the month of April adapting my novel, Waiting For Spring, into a screenplay. Which means I'll spend the next 26 days making an extensive outline for said screenplay. Here is everything I need for that:

1.) A detailed outline of my novel.
2.) My lucky writing sweater.
3.) Pencil, pens, highlighting markers.
4.) Notebook.
5.) Flashlight. (Did I mention that the power was out when I took this photo?)

My Mighty Red Pen

I'm editing my book. Again. I wonder if I'll ever be able to just read the damn thing?