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.
I am haunted by my unfinished works. Every once in awhile, I take out one of those novels I started years ago and never quite finished. Or I finished it but…there’s always a but. It still needed work. It got rejected and I gave up on it. I got tired…
THE FOREVER KIND OF GUY QUIZ Is he A FOREVER KIND OF GUY? Take this quiz and find out. 1. Your car breaks down on the freeway. When you call your guy for help he: A) Tells you to lock the doors, sit tight, he’s on his way B) Suggests…
God on a Harley by Joan Brady. This is the second Joan Brady book I’ve read, and maybe ? it’s the first she had published. It’s a short and simple spiritual fable. Even if you’re fairly far along on your own spiritual journey, there might be some reminders for you…
Rainwater by Sandra Brown. Has Sandra Brown ever written a bad book? If she has, I suppose they didn’t make it to publication. Maybe she’s got a few trunk novels under her bed or hidden in a closet. Sandra Brown is one of the few authors I will pick up…
In this case, about 15 pages of male dialogue between two male colleagues (hey, at least they’re in a bar drinking beer) about women, relationships, emotions, motivations. One line at least was so flowery, I came close to throwing the book across the room. Instead I heaved a huge sigh as I often do and thought to myself, “Men do not talk like this.”
So…the editors that bought those books saw something in them. Bottom line? They were good enough to be published,
