This is an experiment to see if I can get this embedded video to post. If it works, you should watch it, because it is the awesome Marshall Chapman, a Nashville singer-songwriter, in a video for her new book, They Came to Nashville. Plus, she sings. Okay, here goes:

I'm in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tenneesee, with a family of bears for company. (See below, or above, I'm not sure where this photo will post.) Until just moments ago we did not have an internet connection at our lodging, hence the lack of blog posts. But now I am connected again and have […]

Hey, I Won An Award!

Online PhD Degrees I am pleased to announce that I won an award: a 2010 Top Creative Writing Blog.   The contest was sponsored by Onlinephdprograms.com, and there were 50 of us who won. The funny thing is that several of the other award winners are blogs that I read often, including What Kate Did Next, […]

If things look wonky on this site….it is because my web designer is doing the coding for a new design. Yay! Stay tuned.

I forgot to tell you guys–I have a guest post up at my friend Linda Busby Parker's blog. She's familiar to regular readers because she's guest posted here several times. Read a bit about her trip to Europe, too. Here's the link: http://lindabusbyparker.typepad.com/lindas_blog/2010/06/this-writer-in-paris-and-guest-blogger-charlotte-rains-dixon.html

Just to let you know, that although I usually blog Monday through Friday, this Monday (tomorrow) is a holiday in the states. And I'm going to the beach. So no blog post until Tuesday. But I shall return then with the second part of the series on mental energy and thoughts on rock concerts and […]

Friday Mini-Critique: Christi Corbett

Welcome to the first Wordstrumpet mini-critique. Today's victim volunteer is none other than Christi Corbett and she bravely sent me a couple of excerpts from her novel, Along the Way Home. You can read another excerpt on Christi's blog, here, and you might also want to check out her book trailer, which is very cool, […]