Feedblitz has an impossible design template, a confusing layout, but it doesn’t fatally crash my website. Who knew that MailPoet, a plugin by the makers of this website’s software backend, would regularly throw up bugs and, in a final act of petulance, create a fatal error requiring hours to fix: time with support, restoring an…
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.
Ebooks Up for Pre-Order — At Last!
Ebook pre-order announcement time! As some of you may know, I’d wanted to create an accessible ebook for Brain Injury, Trauma, and Grief: How to Heal When You Are Alone back when I released the paperback in 2022. But I failed. I never could figure out how to create an accessible ebook. Meanwhile, Smashwords had…
Cover Reveals Title
Today is the day! I’m ready to reveal the title and cover of the first book in my trilogy!! But first, drum roll, please, with a final cymbal ring, as I reveal the trilogy’s title. The Q’Zam’Ta Trilogy As I pondered, tested, googled various trilogy titles using the word “resurrection” or some English synonym, I…
Updating My Writing Steps
Updating my writing steps: Getting back into fiction writing means reminding myself how I got from idea to finish manuscript.
Leaving Twitter and Facebook
I’ve been putting off this moment — leaving Twitter and Facebook — but it’s time to say bye to Twitter and Facebook. I’m not deactivating my accounts, but I’ve become so uncomfortable posting even article links that I can’t anymore, tho I’m missing my peeps very much. I’ve been on Tw since 2008, FB 2007.
The Writing Workshop Life
Not sure why but this year, I’ve impulsed my way into writing workshops, events, and this week a series of conversations on the artisan author. I think my subconscious decided I needed a kick to get back into novelling. And it worked. The retrofitting ended…almost…but it took a year longer than planned, and technical and…
MailPoet vs. Feedblitz
MailPoet is easier to design with and integrated in my website, but Feedblitz seems to work better at getting the posts update newsletter out and on time. I think, too, more subscribers see and engage with the ones Feedblitz sends out. I’ve returned to the Tuesday early-morning time for the posts newsletter. Let’s see if…
Storygarden Summit
I signed up for the Storygarden Summit on a whim. I’d enjoyed Plottr’s writing craft book club on Story Genius so much I wanted to keep inside the writing sphere. I’m so glad I signed up! I haven’t worked on my novels or books for over a year. Too many other things going on, and…
Circling Story
Story. Stories. Storytelling. Beats the heart of the novel. I’d never thought of how it’s the story not the writing that makes a novel a novel until I began reading on Thursday night Story Genius by Lisa Cron when I was two-thirds of the way through Madeleine L’Engle’s memoir A Circle of Quiet. A week…