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BECALMED: Fun with Book Covers

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!     The proposed cover by the designer at Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas. I figure where there’s a cover, there’s bound to be a book someday. And here’s the Back Cover Copy: When a Southern woman with a broken heart falls for a widower with a Read more →

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Signing on the Dotted Line: Publishing Contract Number Two

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SAILING OUT OF DARKNESS Sold (Finally) Perhaps the manuscript’s saga will encourage you to hang on and believe in your dreams, too. Picture a sailboat and a sailor and years from there to here. During that more-than-a-decade, we ventured forth on oceans and seas, living a life that changed us Read more →

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Fading into Silence?

What does it mean when a cruiser’s sailing blog slips into silence? Sometimes, the sailor is busy sailing. He can’t write, because he’s at sea. She doesn’t post, because she’s too busy living the seafaring life. Wouldn’t it be jolly if that were my excuse? Well, I’m sorry to say, Read more →

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Becalmed No Longer

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Tadie Longworth wouldn’t stop poking at me. She was tired of her quiet, monochromatic life and all those breezeless days. I could sympathize. After all, we’re both sailors. I finally have good news for her and her Beaufort friends. My agent, Terry Burns, forwarded a contract yesterday that will let Read more →

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Calling the Crew: Readers and Writers

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I’m a sailor — temporarily land bound — and I write stories of women who sail. Some of them sail small boats, some large ones. Most love the water, though I’ve a WIP in which the protagonist is a wife who follows her husband’s dream. How’s that working out? Well, Read more →

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