Monday, March 25, 2013

Last Snow of the season - I hope!

March 25, 2013

New snow on the ground this morning and I hope it is the last of the season, but at the same time it is achingly beautiful. The world is frosted white and pure for as far as  my eye can see. I love it even though I'm tired of it and ready for spring.

I've decided Ivy and Esther needs to act as an addendum to Timeless Star.  It is the back story for the Timeless Star quilt. I've never quite seen anything like it in a novel but I think there is no rule against it. An addendum, I mean. Jamie will get the book formatted and it will be ready to send off to the printer. Oh happy day!

So, we have to plan our sales program for Timeless Star and I am starting to think about the next book.  It is going to be about Caroline and Always in Stitches taking part in a Civil War re-enactment. I am excited about learning the ins and outs the re-enactors go through behind and before the scenes.

All about change . . .

March 25, 2013

Not the kind of change you carry around in your purse, but the kind that occurs in your head.
I have decided Ivy and Esther needs to be an addendum to Timeless Star. I don't think I've ever seen a novel with an addendum, but I don't think there is any rule against it. So . . . we are going to do it.

Jamie has to format the story and make a few corrections in the first (already formatted) section of Timeless Star, then we will send it to the printer. Oh happy day!

We have been at this off and on for four years. It is time to be done with it and get it out there where people can read it. I'm excited about that.

I've found a man who is willing to take me with him to some re-enactor week ends so I can find out what goes on behind the scenes and in front of the scenes before I start to write. I hope to be ready to write when the fall comes around again but I plan to enjoy summer in the mean time. I have such big plans for my gaarden and swimming and time at Dickie's lake and the farm. I don't want to let the summer get away from me again.

I also have a book abut the loss of my son that I have been working on all year. Haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with it. But I am thinking about it and will decide soon. I might try getting it pulished or I might just have it printed up for the family. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it.



Sunday, March 17, 2013

Happy St. Patrick's Day

March 17, 2013

I have to be the worst blogger in the history of the Internet, but I am persistant and I'm back again.

April 4, 2012 my son was killed in Afghanistan by a twelve year old suicide bomber. It has been devastating to the entire family to lose him. We are trying to move on but it is very hard. We miss him. He left a wonderful wife and a (now) nineteen month old son behind. War is indeed Hell.

Life does go on and we are trying to move along with it, keeping him in our hearts each day.

Writing and my family have helped me survive this loss. I have a wonderful, new grand daughter who is eleven weeks old. Her parents have named her Shawnessy in memory of her uncle. She is a joy and so are the rest of my grand children. God loves them and so do I.

So... Timeless Star, our second quilting novel will be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Jamie, my daughter-in-law and I have finally gotten it together to put the ISBN number and the bar code on the cover.

You are going to love this book. It is a mystery featuring the Quild in the Granary ladies and a few nes folks. Agnes and one of the young shop girls go to a two week quilt retreat where bad guys wreak havoc and generally mess up the weeks for the retreat-goers. Again somebody dies. I think ervery mystery should have a body. Don't you?

Mary Clark, our partner in Crime, has been sick for months after a routine gall bladder surgery became un-routine. Her intestinal track was accidently damaged and she has been healing for months. We have called a meeting to get all of us back into the saddle again.

The next quilting novel is going to involve Civil War re-enactors so I'm planning to spend some time this summer hanging out with them - re-enacters I mean to learn the lingo, etc. I'm looking forward to this and I can promise you there will be a body in the story. Beyond that who knows. Writiing is all about spinning straw iinto gold.  We will all have to stay tuned to see what CAroline and the ladies from the guild get into this time.

Our writer's Group is growing like crazy and we will soon be starting our fourth Summer Scribbles writing contest for middle and high school writers. You can see the details on the Writing Group web site so aptly handled by Liz Thompson. The address is http://grovecitywriters.wordpress.com/member/websites . Check it out.

I am trying to get organized and move on with my life and my writing. It has been a long winter and I like most peoppleiin central Ohio am looking forward to spring. I have onion sets ready to go into the garden and lots and lots of work to be done in the yard. Ye Gods!

My goal will be to blog every Sunday and see where that takes us. Cross your fingers for me.