Joy left home at 18 with a boy her minister father didn’t approve of. Joy and Mike marry in Vegas and arrive in LA. Shortly thereafter Joy discovers she’s pregnant and before she gives birth Mike is killed in a motorcycle accident. Broke, pregnant and widowed, Joy calls home. Her father, Art, says, “You’ve made your bed. Now lie in it.” He hangs up on her.
In art we seem to perpetuate the stereotype of the weak female who can’t think for herself or one who isn’t willing to risk her own safety to save someone else.
The Red Bud series is shaping up, starting with Book One, IF YOU KNEW, to be released late 2018. IF YOU DARE is the story of Doug Winston’s chance at redemption. Doug is the villain in IF YOU KNEW, persecuting the heroine, Devonny Campbell and using her background in the…
Hot guy has breached the neutral zone, shouted her internal alarm system.
In the end very few people really care what you do with your own life. Maybe for five seconds they care, but beyond that they are too wrapped up in their own lives.
“The world is not against you. Nor is the world on your side. The world just doesn’t care.” –Thomas Hardy
Is $10 per book unreasonable? That’s equivalent to two Venti white mochas at Starbucks. A movie in the theatre costs almost as much. But these senior citizens probably aren’t going to movies. Or buying white mochas.
But like most experiences we think of as bad, it’s actually just a turning point or a lesson we can learn from as we move forward on our life journey.
That’s as it relates to blogging, not necessarily anything else. I started blogging several years ago when I first set up my web site because a WordPress blogging platform came with the web site. I didn’t know what blogging actually was. I loved writing. I loved essay-ing. Mostly I wrote…
Starting today I am hosting some of my writer friends as guest bloggers. I came up with the questions. The answers are entirely theirs. I am pleased to have author Tina Wainscott as my first guest. Tina was my very first writer friend and she’s always been tremendously supportive as…
