I’m pleased to announce that my novel She has been shortlisted in the Novel – Futuristic category in The Word Guild Awards. “On June 13, The Word Guild will present Canada’s top Christian writing awards for 2012, rewarding the best in Christian writing during 2011. Awards Administrator Mary Ann Benjamins reports a record of almost…
Category: News
Anything new in my life and work or occasionally in the news that’s related to me, my books, or the people I wrote about in “Lifeliner” a biography.
What is Good Standard of Health Care?
Standard of care. It’s a phrase that gets tossed around a lot. Let me tell you a story about what it should not be, especially for a person in a drug research trial. Before I begin, a note on my background. I grew up as the daughter of a clinician-researcher who is to this day,…
Easter Interrupts ScriptFrenzy
I took Easter weekend off from ScriptFrenzy. I wanted to be like a government worker for a brief moment and took off the whole weekend: Good Friday, Waiting Saturday, Celebratory Sunday. and Easter Monday. When Tuesday came, I was not ready to return to my regular routine and ScriptFrenzy. I wanted to continue to sit…
Four Days, Eighteen Pages, ScriptFrenzy, Fifth Day, I Rest
Well, five days of ScriptFrenzy have suddenly appeared and gone, or at least four days have. The fifth day, today, seems hardly to be believed it’s here. One day, I’m worrying, thinking, pondering, ignoring, stressing out about the first day of ScriptFrenzy, the first day of writing another piece of fiction — in this case,…
Two Days of ScriptFrenzy
I’ve begun ScriptFrenzy! I fretted and worried over whether I’d have an idea by April 1. I wasn’t sure I could do it this year, I have so many other writing projects to work on, like my brain injury book, like my novel Time and Space, like waiting and waiting for the edits to be…
Tis Preparation Time for ScriptFrenzy!
It’s that time of year again, when one attempts to write in a foreign format and finish it within thirty days, the time otherwise known as — ScriptFrenzy. My calendar told me it was time to decide what to write. For the past few months, I keep seeing the same two characters on…
Read An E-Book Week Is Here And So Are Hot Deals On My E-Books!
March 4 to 10 is Read An E-Book Week! To celebrate, Smashwords is running a promotion all week, and I’m pleased to announce that I’ve enrolled all my ebooks in it. To participate as a reader, all you have to do is go to Smashwords, choose any or all of my ebooks, enter the appropriate…
New Site Design
I can’t help myself. I say don’t do it, not interested, tired, in pain. And I do it anyway. I redesign my site. You may have noticed. The background texture is handmade Japanese paper I photographed, uploaded to the computer, and futzed around with in Corel Paint Shop Pro X4. I used layers, the Color…
New Gift for New Subscribers — Free!
It’s been awhile since Lifeliner came out, and I thought it was well past time to update the gift I send those who subscribe to my website using the form in the right sidebar. I pondered what to give for a few weeks. I wanted to give something unique and attractive, something I hadn’t done…