
Behind the Scenes
A look at what goes on in my writing world
This person tried to get the balloon up but it kept sinking. It didn't appear to be a good day to fly!
Seeing hot air balloons is nice bonus of living up "north"!!
That's north Alabama…
February 2022
2021 ended up being a busy yet sad year. The busy part? My husband and I moved from south Alabama to north Alabama. From a small town to a metropolitan area. From no interstate highways to two several interstate highways. From warm to COLD.
The sad part? We arrived with three dogs and only have one now.
In memoriam: February 4, 2020 - December 29, 2021.

2021 not kind to Sadie either. She was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. Two days after we lost Millie we were in the vet ER with Sadie who had pancreatitis. The next few weeks were up and down with her as she lost weight, suffered a stroke or seizure, and in general did not fare well. An x-ray also showed serious spinal issues.
In memoriam: October 1., 2011 - February 2, 2022


This is Daisy all grown up.
December 2020
And now there are seven again! A newly arrived neighbor brought some ducks from her father's lake and now we have 3 Khaki Campbell ducks added to the duck family we already had.
2 Mallards, 2 Pekin, and 3 Khaki Campbell. Only the Mallards can fly. The other ducks are domesticated and the most they can do is a few feet of low level flying.
Mr. Mallard, Will-I-Am, Baby Dee, Huey, Cher, Chet, and Clarice. Yes, I name them!


We started feeding them waterfowl food because they had no idea how to find food. Three years later two mallards joined the flock, drawn by daily feeding and females!






Way back when I started the Tassanoxie stories, I thought it would be nice to have a logo to put on the books.
Although I never used it, here's what Su of Earthly Charms created for me.
I'm still trying to figure out how to use it. Ebooks don't lend themselves to something like this because covers are pretty small at the distributor outlets.
It's already July, 2018. I lost most of June trying to untangle a computer knot that meant I couldn't upload website updates to my host server. What a headache!
I enjoy quotations from writers and posted this one on my Facebook page not long ago. I thought I'd share it again.

I put all my covers together to make a Facebook banner.


This origami swam is a folded manuscript page taken from my next release, Butterfly Bride, Regency historical romance.
Isn't it darling?



The idea for new covers started with Stealing Destiny's cover. I couldn't figure out a way to give Ransom's Bride a similar look. The books have some common characters and I wanted readers to know they were related stories.


As you can see, I think we've achieved that goal.