Wornoutwoman

In just a few weeks, I'll release one of my favorite books to date. When I started writing, I didn't set out to write a series.  I started with just one book, Finding Kylie, a contemporary romance and family saga about two women and their journey through past and present to learn about love and becoming survivors.  I left the ending somewhat open, while still having closure for the main character. I could have left it alone after Finding Kylie, but the story was so endearing to readers - that I got email after email asking 'what happens next?'.  Hence, the sequel, Facing Redemption was born, but it didn't happen overnight.  To tell the other side of the story, I had to put myself into some shoes that weren't savory and to do that it meant I had to learn to fully forgive.  You see ... these two books are very personal to me for very real reasons.  Read the forward of Facing Redemption and you'll know why. Once I was ready to move forward in my per...

We're almost 1/2 way there to our goal!  I wanted to say THANK YOU to everyone, who has supported this kickstarter to date.  In two days, we're half way along.  Granted the goal is very minimal, but in seeing how many of you have stepped forward to help - I'm humbled and blessed.  Please share this post with as many people as you can, to spread the word. Click this link - which will take you directly to our kickstarter, where you can read about the project details and back the project..  Please consider giving us a five or two.  Thanks again from John and myself.

For those of you who love my books, and are looking forward to the hard read, for Finding Kylie , becoming a reality - I've launched a kickstarter   campaign.  All John Schwab , my writing partner, and I need are a handful of friends to support us with a few ones or fives. In his words, "We just need a few pals to  support as if buying us couple drinks ... that's not  much." We don't need much, but it will take a bunch of you  to donate a little - and every bit means the world to  us as we've worked so very hard to make this hard  read a reality. Just click the link below to read about our project.   We only need 2K and have until September to raise it  - but need everyone's help to make it happen.  We've  got a few prizes tied to certain donation levels.   Check it out and please consider donating to a very  worthy cause. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/findingkylie/find...

Throughout my life and travels, I've had some really neat things that I've been able to participate in or accomplish.  Not to list them out or name any names, as this is not a brag-book - but to say that I had the most fun in my entire life this weekend is truly special. Since we've not had a summer vacation for our family in a while, we planned a quick four-day get-a-way this past weekend.  We wanted somewhere close but far enough away from Oklahoma City, that we felt like we were going 'somewhere'.  We'd already done Dallas, Ft. Worth, Kansas City, Branson, but weren't ready to go as far as Missouri, Arkansas, or Tennessee.  So we figured Texas, as large as it is, would have a fun suburb that could hold some potential fun for our family - hence... Frisco, Texas, where we found iFly. iFly  has been around for a while but is just now making it's way to Oklahoma City.  Since we knew of it's pending arrival, we thought it would be fun to try it ou...

After finishing book 5, I put down my pen and decided to read a few books.  A general rule for me is that when I'm writing - I find it hard to read.  It convolutes my scenes with other author's works, and I'd rather keep my brain free from clutter to keep my characters mine. So now that I'm ready to read, I've had some really great recommendations from some of my readers on my FaceBook page .  Some of them being: Gone Girl The Book Thief T he Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society The Goldfinch And these all sounded really good, and someday I'll tackle them. However, to be quite honest - I didn't want to spend upwards of five dollars to over twelve for a digital book.  Call me cheap, but I was in the mood for two things when surfing the Amazon book list.   Cheap or free An easy read So out of curiosity, I searched with the terms: 'free kindle romances' After days of downloading a few freebies here and there, and perusing...

This won't be a formal review going over how Joy has to work together with her other emotional pals to bring balance to her child.  It won't be a raving review about how many humorous jokes that were laugh-out-loud funny, even though there were some moments that had me bursting out with obnoxious laughter. I won't tell you my favorite parts, because I don't want to spoil it for you. What I will tell you is this: The beginning of the movie and the end are amazingly funny and on the nose with their sarcastic viewpoint about how we all relate and communicate. However, the middle, where Joy and Sadness have to find their way back to headquarters, draaaaaaaagggggggeeeed on FOREVER.  I know they had to make the move a certain length, but the middle section had hardly anything that kept the adults engaged. HOWEVER, that being said, the movie is NOT for adults.  The target market, your kids, will love it! My kid, at twelve, was probably the oldest there, and he...

After Finding Kylie was published, a film producer from London reached out to me asking to be a part of the script, insisting that it would be perfect for the screen.  He also warned it was a TON of hard work invested with a LONG turn around as the film industry can take years. 
 I thought, 'Okay a couple years. I can handle that.' However, here we are about eight years later and a major door finally opened.    For the last four years, we've been trying to get a hard read set up.  For those of you who have no idea what a hard read is, I'll explain.  It's basically doing a dry run or a read with real actors, to make sure it is what we think it is 'off the paper'. We've written the script, and in our heads (in 2D) it's perfect - but when acted out or read aloud in 3D - it may not sync.  This just helps me and John , who is the film producer and my writing partner for the script, see it in person to finesse it so that we can ...