Publishing your own books comes with a lot of extra baggage in terms of learning. You do your own cover. You do your own marketing. You do your own blurb. You do your own formatting and copy editing. You do your own marketing. You choose whether you will use Amazon or Ingram for your publisher/delivery [...]
I needed information for one sentence I was trying to write …
We have a family story about a barrel of flour falling off the wagon as it was brought home from the miller. In 1863? The barrel broke. Since it was the family’s winter supply of flour, it had to be scooped up from the ground and used anyway. In the course of looking up other [...]
Happy Halloween
In my current novel the heroine needed a patron saint, and she ended up thinking about Saint Waltruda, whose feast day is April 9. This is also the heroine’s birthday and, though it is a Very Important Day in my own family, it was chosen in the book because I was following the liturgical calendar [...]
Blog mission creep++
Last summer Tony and I joined a CSA. This was not some branch of the Confederate States of America. It isn’t even Crop Share Associations, which is where my mind always goes. CSA means Community Supported Agriculture. In practice it IS crop sharing, where you pay a farmer so much per week for so many [...]
Paradise Lost, first impressions
Last week I flew from Santa Fe to Denver, and towards the middle of the trip I looked down. Below were mountains with sharp crests, outlined by a sprinkling of snow. The white line appeared on the eastern edge of range after range. I’m not familiar with the local area, but assume that the wind [...]
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