| I post new photos below my writer's cave photos. Pictures from my Lake Erie signings, 2009 garden and family, and COFW conference are below. Check back frequently for new pictures. |
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| Me at my signing table at the Northeast Ohio RWA Workshop. This the first time I used my new businesscards and bookmarkers. |
| Me and Joysann at the Northeast Ohio RWA's "Got High COncept?" workshop on May 16, 2009. She's from Barbara Vey's "Beyond Her Book" at the Publisher's Weekly website. The website featured The Winds of Fall and gave it an excellent review. I was honored by such unexpected news. |
| Sheena is more cat than dog. She'd sit on window ledges and look out, if we had ledges. We have a family joke, she's half cat because of the looking outside and because of how she pounces on prey, half rabbit because of the way she jumps (sometimes vertically), and half wolf because of her howl. According to my oldest son, she's a "hair factory" because she sheds so much when she sheds. My dustbunnies are hairbunnies, but I don't care, I still love her. On August 23rd, 2008, she added a new suffix to her name: the dreaded mouse\rat\cat\groundhog\bat killer. She nabbed a bat in midair in our house and killed it before I could stop her! Bats eat tons of mosquitoes and other pesky bugs each night so I was a bit upset. |
| My office as seen from the living room. As you can tell, I LOVE books! If you look carefully, you can also see bits of my other loves, Star Trek and my art desk for when I have time for doing drawings with various media. |
| Me and fellow Mid-Ohio Writers Association members with Stacy Dittrich at a signing for her latest release, Mary Jane's Grave, on June 6, 2009. Stacy spoke at the MOWA conference in 2008. We're all blonde writers, guess that should put the jokes about blondes to rest. |
| A black oil sunflower that popped up behind my garden this summer, 2009. The head is over a foot and 1\2 across. I feed many backyard birds so I'm surprised I didn't have one of these til this year. |
| My granddaughters playing "Let's smash Daddy" in their bedroom, 8-30-09 |
| My granddaughters getting off the bus on Elizabeth's first day of kindergarten, 8-26-09. |
| A fabulous car at the Port Clinton, Ohio, memorial car show on 8-1-09. I'll take it! |
| Amy Fitzgerald and me at the Clyde, Ohio, Book Exchange signing I had July 31, 2009. The cup you see is full of an addicting punch served by the Our Town's Brewin' coffee shop two doors away. Amy and I couldn't stop drinking it. Not to mention eating their chocolate cookies that taste like fresh brownies! |
| Some of the authors at the August 1st multi-author booksigning at The Book Exchange, Port Clinton, Ohio: author Holly Jacobs; authors Lori and Tony Karayianni AKA Tori Carrington; and me. |
| Some of the people at the August 1st multi-author booksigning at The Book Exchange, Port Clinton, Ohio: Mike Fitzgerald; Holly Jacobs; Annette Fitzgerald; Lori and Tony Karayianni AKA Tori Carrington; and Susan Gable. |
| Author Georgia Evans at The Book Exchange on August 1st. She's English and has written a trilogy of Wordl War II novels set in England. The first is the people of England. It's not as odd as it sounds, I love it! |
| Port Clinton, Ohio, murder mystery author, PJ Grondin, at his and my table in the front window of the Book Exchange. We had a perfect view of all the old cars in the Jerry Lippus Memorial Car Show. |
| Joysann of Barbara Vey's Beyond Her Books blog on Publisher's Weekly took this picture of the talented authors at NEORWA's Cleveland Rocks Workshop on Saturday May 16, 2009! From the left: Jamie Denton, Olivia Parker, Mary Ann Chulik/Solange Ayre, Erin McCarthy, Tiffany Bryan, Lori Wilde (workshop presenter), Donna MacMeans, Dianne Miley, and me. |
| I sat on the dock of the bay off madison Street not too far from the draw bridge in Port Clinton and couldn't resisit snapping these seagulls sitting on the woden poles. The lavender smelled wonderful. |
| The authors and customers talking to each other and enjoying Tori Carrington's home-made Greek baklava. |
| To the left, me and Leisure Historical Fantasy author, Leanna Renee Hieber. Above, me and a fellow COFW member at the Central Ohio Fiction Writers 2009 Readers and Writers Holiday conference in September. |