Official Teaser Reveal: Gnarled Bones and Other Stories

I'm pleased to offer the official teaser reveal today! This is for my first book, Gnarled Bones and Other Stories. In this collection of five short stories, strange and sometimes spooky events have a profound effect on characters’ lives. A newly divorced woman goes back to school to begin a new chapter of her life …

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From Struggle Comes Creativity

Photo Credit: Struggle, Robert Demachy, 1904, gum bichromate photograph, originally appeared in Camera Work, No. 5, January 1904: Lexaxis7/Wikimedia Commons /PD US “[W]e are writers and make art out of our struggle…” (Nin, letter to Henry Miller, p. 114) Last month, I wrote in the transformative power of art. It’s not only trauma that art …

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Déjà Vu Blogfest 2016: Hidden Influences

***This post is part of the Déjà Vu Blogfest 2016, hosted by author D. L. Hammons***    “Everybody comes into your life for a reason. There are no random personal relationships” (Dream Intuition, 2016, 3:04). A friend of mine, Charlotte Elea, who, in addition to tarot readings and dream work is also a writer, posted a …

The Nurture of Creativity

 Photo Credit: Pregnant woman, black and white, uploaded June 2016 by unsplash: Unsplash/Pixabay/CC0 1.0 “The true creative impulse chooses life rather than death, and love rather than hatred.” (Nin, Chap. 8, location 3592-3599) Much has been said about the creative impulse. In an article by author K. M. Weiland “Make War, Not Love: Be Creative”, …

Gnarled Bones and Other Stories – Full Cover Reveal

I’m so pleased to announce my first upcoming book, Gnarled Bones and Other Stories. Release Date: January 19, 2017* *The book is available now in paperback at the Amazon link below but will be officially released and available also in ebook at the date above. In this collection of five short stories, strange and spooky …

The Power of Silence

 Photo Credit: Le Silence, Odilon Redon, pastel, 1900, The Museum of Modern Art, New York: BetacommandBot/Wikimedia Commons/PD Art (Yorck Project)   “‘I want to write a novel about Silence,’ he said; ‘the things people don’t say.’“ (Woolf, The Voyage Out, p. 245) Cynthia Cruz’s “The Vanishing Act” talks about silences. One of my obsessions as …

Edited to Shreds: Agnes Moorehead’s Aborted Performance in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

***This post is part of the Agnes Moorehead Blogathon, hosted by the In The Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood blog.*** ***Spoilers.*** “Fanny… (though not an Amberson) may be the main character of The Magnificent Ambersons…” (Emerson, par. 51) As many of my blog followers know, I am a huge classic film fan. Huge. And whenever an …