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Birthdays and Smile Wrinkles
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ~Ausonius I just had a birthday. They have a way of coming around faster than they used to. When I was...
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The Joy of Grandparenting
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley Did you know this Sunday was Grandparents Day? It’s not a...
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A New Title Reveal
“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.” ~Stephen King Maybe neither do titles of those books. But a book needs a good title. Maybe even better than good. Something catchy. Something that...
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Labor Day for a Farm Girl
“Farming is not just a job, it’s a way of life.” – Unknown For most people, Labor Day is a holiday when you don’t have to work. You have the day off. You can go on a picnic, go fishing, read a book,...
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A Story Needs a Few Clouds
“A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.” (Terri Guillemets) Ah, the beautiful sky. And what can make the sky even more beautiful? Clouds, of course. And their shadows floating over...
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My Romantic Louisville Book
As those of you who read my blog posts here and have read my novels already know, I’m not a writer who sticks to one type of story or theme. Most publishing experts would tell me that’s where I go...
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A Shaker and a Sheriff
One more post about my Shaker book, The Innocent, since there are only a very few days left of the book’s 99 cent e-book sale on Amazon. Always be sure to check the price before you click the buy...
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My Oxymoron Shaker Stories
An oxymoron – a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined. (e.g., thunderous silence, sweet sorrow, Shaker romance) I always do seem to do things the hard way. Let...
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Characters – Real and Imagined
A few weeks ago after I had a book party to celebrate my new release, A Chance for Kallie Mae, and had fun answering questions those there asked me, I invited you all to throw some questions about my...
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A Trip Back Through Time in a Shaker Village
Have you ever met a Shaker? Probably not unless you’ve been to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine where two Shakers still reside in the only active Shaker village remaining. The other...
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Small, Ordinary Pleasures
When I was looking for something to share on my FB author page today where I share tidbits of Shaker history. This morning, I hunted up an excerpt from my Shaker story, The Innocent, about my...
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Stuck? Road Blocks on the Story Roads
“You’re not stuck, you just forgot you can change your mind” ― J.R. Rim A few posts ago, I invited readers to ask me a question that they might have asked if they could have been at my book event and...
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Story Glimmers
Since The Innocent is on e-book sale right now for 99 cents for a limited time on Amazon, I found this post written a few years ago for a different blog when the story was newly published. I rewrote...
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Pray Anyway – Carlyn’s Story
In my books, while I never have everything thought out, I do have my main characters. In The Innocent, I begin with my female main character, Carlyn, and her dog Asher. I have the setting. For The...
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Do You Have Enough Reading Time?
“How did it get so late so soon?” ~ Dr. Seuss Somehow, Wednesday keeps sneaking past me and here it is Thursday already. The days can slide past but only minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day as...
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The Sun, the Sky, the Ocean & a Good Book
“Dance with the waves, move with the sea. Let the rhythm of the water set your soul free.” —Christy Ann Martine A few years ago, we went to the beach with a couple of our kids and their families. I...
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Pop-up Characters
The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.― Raymond Chandler Readers like you and like me love words, especially when they go together in that amazing way to make...
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Word by Word by Word
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ~Albert Einstein I had my book party Saturday. It was fun. It would have been even more fun if all of you...
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The Power of a Determined Woman
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” ~Tommy Lasorda The initial interest that led to my research into the history of several of my books was...
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Have You Ever Been to a Book Party?
Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments! ~ Jordon Klopp Sometimes, you have to throw yourself a party. A few years ago –well, more like twenty plus years ago — I published my first...
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