Alright folks! It’s official: My next food focused trip will be a road trip through the English countryside. I will be visiting a variety of destinations – like the beautiful, quaint villages that inspired Jane Austen novels or Downton Abbey –…
Getting there. New elements
Awesome progress in my writing today. Although I should have been polishing the completed book, I was hit with inspiration to add more elements. Very exciting elements. So happy I held on to my book this long. In the meantime,…
While you’re waiting…
It has been quite some since I last posted any updates on the novel. I foolishly did it – I let life get in the way. But I’m not too concerned. I am finally back on schedule and plan to…
Snow Day Writing
There’s nothing like a snow day to get me back on this project. Only ~250 more pages to go. I’m secretly pleading to myself that this will be a final* version. *By final, I mean the draft I will be…
Show, don’t tell
“Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.” – Ernest Hemingway “Show” is one of the most important tips I received thus far in editing my book. More than one of my beta-readers offered me this word of advice and I…
My Birthday: Sorting The Cards
Today marks my 39th birthday. Yup – the last of the amazing 30s. To start, I will, as always, raise my glass to wish a very merry birthday to fellow birthday boy, England’s Prince Charles. So, the media makes him…