When I first moved to Tulsa and began looking for a writing group, I happened upon the Tulsa NightWriters. “We are an eclectic group of published writers and soon-to-be published writers,” the president said from the podium. And from my first visit, I felt embraced by this group of seekers – sharing craft and promotion ideas, encouraging one another on …
NaNoWriMo – Who’s In?
Some of you will know instantly what I mean by that title. Others of you might scratch your head and go huh? Sometimes I forget that not everyone in the world is a writer! But there are a LOT of people who think they have a story in them. Some estimate as many as 80% of the folks in the …
Road Tripping
Sorry I’ve been absent this week. I’ll take a detention. The truth is, sometimes you just have to get away. And what better excuse than speaking to a group of writers? And then tacking on a four-day vacation. Well worth a detention and then some. The Siloam Springs Writers invited me to speak at their fall workshop a while back, …
On the road again . . .
Tomorrow I’m heading south across the Red River!!! It’s that time of year – the annual ACFW conference – held this year at a Dallas hotel smack dab in the middle of DFW. There I’ll meet up with 700 like-minded people to talk writing, marketing, who sold what to whom, and who just got a new agent. I’ll …
Book Review Week: AT EVERY TURN by Anne Mateer
My agent recently said that September is the new January – It’s like the lazy, hazy days of summer came abruptly to a halt and everyone is scrambling to kick off fall. I’ve always loved September because a new school year seems like a good place to make a fresh start. My schedule is already filling up fast! Recently I …
STARDUST Book Video
In three short weeks, STARDUST will release. I can’t wait for y’all to read it! Everything about this book has been pure delight – from the research trip to East Texas to letting the characters dance onto the pages to seeing the cover my publisher created to holding the first hot-off-the press copy in my hands. It’s a feeling I …
Sweet Giveaway – A Sweethaven Summer by Courtney Walsh
Thanks, everyone, for helping launch my new website and your fabulous comments on Friday’s post. I’ve drawn a winner: Her comment: Wow, after reading the few paragraphs – it has whet my appetite for the entire book . . . CONGRATULATIONS to Judy Abbott! I’ll be sending autographed copies of Lisa Wingate’s books, A Dandelion Summer and Blue Moon Bay, …
Thirty Days of Thanksgiving – Day 23
Day 23. The Letter W. Today is a grab bag of things that I’m thankful for that begin with the letter “W”, and at the end of the post, a special surprise for you. Words: No secret here – I’m in love with words. I’m in love with Writing words. I love it when I think about it for two …
>An Evening at the Harwelden
>The Harwelden mansion is home to the Tulsa Arts and Humanities Council and is lovely. Rich wood and great slabs of stone in this Collegiate Gothic-English Tudor home speak in hushed tones of a grand era. Indeed, the home is located on the famed Black Gold Row among rolling hills, lush greenery, and overlooks the Arkansas River. It’s one of …
>ACFW Conference, Part II, Genesis Winners
> St. Louis, 2011 ACFW Conference It’s always a little difficult for me to encapsulate what the ACFW conference is all about. Yes, it’s a professional organization dedicated to benefit the members by instructing, providing services and a community of like-minded people – people who want to write books with an eye toward publication. It does all that, and every …
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