Finished Illustrations for Book

The illustrations and cover are finished. The book, Chloe Starcatcher, written by Beverly Crandell based on a story by Chloe Pierce, will be privately published. I will post a few illustrations from the book later.

Pizza Party for Writers

Today the participants of Jano celebrated with a party. A group of local writers, who liked the idea of writing for one month on a novel of our choice, but didn’t like doing it during the month of November, decided to do it in January. (So instead of Nano, we...

50,000 Words in a Month?

Sleuths’ Ink, a mystery writers group I belong to, decided to spend a month in which each member (who chose to do so) would write a 50,000 word novel, but not in November when it’s usually done. We chose the “bare” winter month of January....

2010 The Year to Finish Projects

I plan this year to finish the five major writing or writing related projects that I’ve been working on. One: complete the editing of my biography about the life and times of Maria Sybilla Merian, a woman who captured my heart because she played with...

Ice Cream, Frozen Yogurt

Last weekend in Columbia, MO, I tried Tiger Ice Cream at MU. It was quite tasty and the scoops were the biggest I’ve seen in awhile. Last night we went to Andy’s where I had my favorite––a concrete with raspberry topping (which means the topping is all...