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Memoir and more ---
Writing has been taking a back seat lately to redesigning the website and a few other things like a new great grandson! I try to keep the site tidy and broken links mended. But if you find a broken one, drop me an email, if you would be so kind. I've included a Code Amber ticker to my website for years. Please check the ticker message crawl at the top of this page, you could possibly help reunite a family.
When I decided a few years ago to publish a book I self-pubbed my autobiography, Eight Miles of Muddy Road. My family is very important to me and I did it mostly as a gift for them. With some trepidation, I presented copies to my four sisters and three brothers that Christmas. You never know how family might react to airing the family secrets! But they were very kind and supportive. Eight Miles of Muddy Road can be ordered through Amazon, other online booksellers, the author, and the online publisher, Lulu.com. As well the book can be ordered through any brick and mortar bookstore.
My siblings encouraged me to finish the mystery novel I'd been working on for lo, these several years. I did finish it and it's garnered several rejections but is now being considered by a commercial publisher. Keeping fingers crossed that they will accept it.
I've had stories published in print and online. Several are archived on the web and can still be read, if you should be so inclined. If you 'Google' my name, they along with the pages of this website will come up. Also my affiliations, Short Mystery Fiction Society and the Authors Den online.
I'm a member of several writers groups in my local area. Click on the links for each organization to find out more about them. FLOW-For Love of Words, is a very small group which has been meeting in my hometown for ten or twelve years. Members of the Lost State Writers Guild, a somewhat larger group, have been together a little longer. The Appalachian Authors Guild and Associates, which includes writers from all over the area covered by the Appalachian Regional Commission, is newer but is already making its mark.
Below are the covers of anthologies in which pieces I've written have been included. The first, Rocking Chair Reader, Coming Home, is the first of a nationally distributed series published by Adams Media, FW Publications. Mystery of the Green Mist, published this year by L&L Dreamspell, includes my story, "Reservoir of Death." The other two are collections of my stories which I published through Lightning Source. I also did a second edition of Eight Miles of Muddy Road, cover shown above beside my picture.
