I once worked for a very wealthy couple who owned and operated their own business. They lived in a mansion in one of the nicest parts of town, both drove big luxury cars, and sent their kids to the best schools in the country. And when their kids graduated college, they either gave them jobs…
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Six Sentence Sunday ~ 11/20
Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday, a chance for writers (like me) to post a sampling of just six sentences from one of our projects. I’d like to offer another six from my current novella release, Adrienne’s Ghost. Last week’s post highlighted the yearnings that Rachael and Jackson were starting to feel toward each other. This…
Twitter Etiquette – Where’s Miss Manners when I need her?
I’m relatively new to Twitter. (I joined within the past couple months.) So I’ve had to learn a whole new language, things like “tweet” and “retweet” and “DM” and hashtags and who knows what else. I’m more filled with questions than anything. I need rules! I need guidelines! I keep asking: Where are Miss Manners’…
Fathers matter
This is a story for you fathers out there, a sad story about a man whose name I’ll say is Stan. I used to know him when I was a very young girl, but we lost touch at some point, and as the years passed, he gave up trying and I gave up hoping. Stan…
Six Sentence Sunday
Welcome, everyone! Thanks for stopping by!Today is Six Sentence Sunday, a chance for writers to share bits of their stories, but just six sentences. Today my six are from my new paranormal romance novella, Adrienne’s Ghost. FBI Agent Jackson Yates and paranormal psychologist Rachael Sullivan have joined together to find a killer but discover there…
Really? A blog about words??
About six months ago I started a blog called “A Voice from Silence” intended to dump all the angst inside my soul onto the world. (Lucky world!) It’s been wonderful, a fertile ground for me to get my thoughts on “paper,” and think about new story ideas, or story elements. They tend to be more…
Indie publishing: The real reason I did it
It’s only Monday morning and I’m already exhausted–not a good sign when the work-week is stretching before me like the first mile of a marathon. The worst part? There’s no particular reason for my fatigue. No big weekend behind me, causing me to run from one activity to another. No special events that spent my…
Thank you, New Jersey
New Jersey gets a bad rap. I know that because I spent most of my growing and adult years in the state named for its gardens but known for its highways. It’s the state where I raised my children, the state where I learned to drive, learned to cook (well, sort of), and learned the…
Competition is for the Competitive
By now anyone who follows motor sports knows that IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon was killed yesterday (October 16) in the 12th lap of the Izod IndyCar season finale at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The two-time Indy 500 winner (and reigning Indy 500 champ) started at the back of the pack, and was racing toward…
Greed ~ Enough is Enough!
As chaos overtakes Wall Street and cities around the country, and people rail in the streets against “the machine” in all its forms (corporate, financial, governmental), we in the St. James household have tried to maintain a sense of balance. We’ve tried to look at both sides, tried to understand each side’s perspective, and I…