Month: July 2024

I’m a big fan of Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshswski series. I highly recommend them. Set in Chicago, the books make me nostalgic for the city I really came to love back when we lived in Illinois. We lived about three hours south of Chicago, but I never passed on an opportunity to visit.

I follow Ms. Paretsky on Facebook. She’s wonderful. Witty and caring and so on top of things. I don’t have many heroes, but she’s definitely one of them. This is all to say that I geeked out a little when she commented on something on my Facebook feed.

I can die happy now. Wait, I want a cheesy pizza first—Chicago style, please. THEN I can die happy.

Peace, people!

Today is my tenth anniversary on WordPress. Hard to believe. I don’t post much anymore. I’m too busy working on my novels and marketing them and trying to get my newsletter going. That last one’s been a pain.

One would think that coming up with content for a monthly newsletter would be easy. After all, I wrote a daily blog for almost eight years. But every time I log into my newsletter, I go blank. Totally blank.

The problem is that I don’t want to reveal secrets that are key to my books. And not knowing which of my newsletter subscribers have read which book(s), I might easily include a spoiler.

Oh, and the platform I use for my newsletters is way more sophisticated than I am. Sigh. I spend almost as much time trying to make things work as I do crafting a chapter.

But the books are doing well. I now have six novels in a women’s action/cozy mystery series and one stand-alone, somewhat spicy romance. My Facebook page has pretty much taken the place of this blog.

I considered not renewing my subscription to WP, but I’ve met so many nice folks here and learned so much that I wanted to maintain those connections. So I’ll continue to lurk in the shadows. I might not comment much, but I’m reading!

As always, peace, people!