I’m a sucker for a good infomercial, but rarely do I actually order a product off the TV. I’m not down with that “just pay separate shipping and handling” line even if I can get not one, but two doohickies for the low, low price of $19.95.
Ride shotgun on my adventure to the Atlantic for the Amelia Island Book Festival.!
Feb 15 Amelia Island Book Festival
Rocky presented at the Writers Workshop at the Amelia Island Book Festival on Friday, February 15, 2019.
Laundry–mountains and mountains of laundry–that’s what you get with a 4 kid family, a farm, and a husband who doesn’t believe he’s really accomplished anything unless he gets filthy in the process.
The mostly true story of love, ambition, and the quest for a passable sawmill gravy
I did not discover Joseph Campbell and his phenomenal work The Hero with a Thousand Faces until my mid-forties. I credit Campbell with lighting the fire under my butt to write my own stories.
Don’t trash a visit to the landfill! Every so often, we accumulate enough junk here at the farm to warrant a trip to the local landfill. No matter what we’re hauling, you can guarantee it’s going to be an adventure.
I had one of those seminal realizations…an epiphany…as I prepped my calendars, lists, files, etc. for the new year and it has made a surprising difference. For the first time in forever, I resolved not to resolve jack!
What traditional dishes do you serve, Gentle Reader, that your darlings snurl their pert little noses at? Surely, I’m not the only mom who “tortures” her family with “disgusting foods from the Great Depression”. Chime in!
A Room with a View served as an effective sedative during the lengthy weeks it took me to trudge through it. Nothing to see here but a long overdue admission.
I set a blistering pace in 2018 with a job change, a book release, a return to graduate school, and a host of other obligations that have made the year whir in a maelstrom of conflicting schedules.
Rocky appeared at Trim-a-Tree on Sunday, December 9, 2018 at the Tanger Outlet Center.
If you want to know how it sounds, you’ve got to read your stuff out loud. Reading your work in front of a live audience can be nerve-wracking, but absolutely nothing helps you understand syntax, inflection, and pacing better than oral reading.
Two stories; two centuries, told in inexorably woven tandem. The School of Night is a masterfully written novel that toys with the very context of history. This historical thriller makes a late run for my book of the year.
The Alabama Gulf Coast is one of the prettiest places there is and a popular destination for thousands of over-wintering Snowbirds each year. Not us. We layered up and took ourselves on a little retirement recon trip to Missoula, Montana.
One of the biggest challenges for writers, particularly writers of fiction, is to lend life to the characters they create. Here are a few things to think about as you’re clicking away at your NANOWRIMO goal or having your go at the Great American Novel.
Rocky joined the Episcopal Church Women of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Foley Alabama On November 13th to discuss her books.
