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Its about writing, editing, and books—including my short book reviews—and how to market your work on a shoestring budget. I've lived, written, and edited books on board a sailboat for over thirty-five years. Come aboard!
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September’s Anniversaries and Memorials (opens the original)
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Last Friday, when I posted the latest book reviews, it never crossed my mind that the following day was my book’s three-year birthday, or publishing anniversary, or whatever it’s called. It only occurred to me Saturday morning when I looked at the date—September 19th. The day that “Honeymoon at Sea” (HatS) came out is a date that’s imprinted on my mind, because it was such a huge moment in my life. Not only was it the end result of twenty years of writing and publishing stories about that first
Marriages, Crypto, and a Trip to Oz (opens the original)
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I downloaded an ARC of The Big Day by Lisa Cheek on May 27, 2026, which happened to be the 37th anniversary of my wedding day (and yes, we are still happily married). Thi
One of the Best Books of the Year (opens the original)
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The reviews in my series of book-reviews-as-memoir are linked to events in my life, and I could write this whole post about how author Libbie Grant and I have some crucial things in common. Like me, she was an actor in her childhood and continued to do theater for many years into adulthood. Like me, she gave up on pursuing an acting career after a few good roles and plenty of almost-but-not-quite-there misses. Like me, she was always interested in books and writing, but hadn’t taken the time to
Girlz ‘N the ‘Hood (opens the original)
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Back in 2019, I read a ten-page advanced submission at the Southern California Writers Conference in Irvine that really surprised me. The memoir took place in Southern California, and parts of it played out not far from where I grew up in East San Diego, a mixed race neighborhood whose houses featured barred windows, graffiti-covered walls, and chain link fences around their dirt lots. The memoir’s story was a common one in that ‘hood—young girl grows up in a broken family, gets pregnant as a te
Marketing is Meeting People (opens the original)
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I have written quite a bit about book marketing in the three years since the summer of 2023, when I started this Substack. Most of what I have posted here on the subject can be summed up in the line: Marketing is Meeting People. So when writers tell me they hate marketing, and add that they feel like marketing is bragging about themselves (it isn’t), I think that they’re really saying they they hate meeting people. I know that many writers are introverts, or at least more of introvert-extroverts
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