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After working for twelve years putting together AJ Jackson’s memoir, AJ and I are excited to announce the upcoming publication of This New Mountain by Casa de Snapdragon Publishing. Here’s the blurb...
View ArticleBeginnings: Dealing with Comfort Zones
I wasn’t the first to suggest AJ Jackson’s “adventures” would make a good book. Nearly everyone she came in contact with said the same thing. One of the major appeals of her stories is that she’s a...
View ArticleBeginnings: The Goal of the Memoir
When I first met AJ Jackson, her reason for wanting a book written about her life was to leave a record behind of the things she’d done in the business of private investigating, repossessing, and...
View ArticleBook Giveaway
It’s been a few months since I posted news about what’s happening with This New Mountain, the memoir of AJ Jackson, so I thought I’d get you caught up on what’s going on. AJ and I had several book...
View ArticleMemoir Writing: Organizing Your Life Stories
There are times when a writer sits and stares at a blank page or screen without a clue as to how to start a story. This is not a classic case of writer’s block, it’s more like the gear shift hasn’t...
View ArticleTo Blog or Not to Blog
After taking several months off from blogging, I’m back with a few questions I’ve had to answer for myself. Why blog? Why Not to Blog? You do not have to blog, and if you don’t have much interest in...
View ArticleA Private Eye Gives Up Her Gun
At Diana Jackson’s blog, A Selection of Reflections, she shares “true stories in the present and past” and tells about Norman Campbell who shared his story with her, “all 103 years of it!” A novelist...
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