Excerpt from Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together Puffy was a tomboy through and through. She was a great hunter and settled in quite nicely to our new home. Even though she was a medium-sized sleek black cat who was a half-Siamese mixed breed, she believed she was a black panther. Even though we fed her well, she went out … [Read more...]
Never Finished Changing
Famous last words of a stuck mentality: I never did it that way before. I don’t know how to navigate the social media sites. I don’t have a platform. I don’t know how to self-publish. I just don’t understand all that high tech stuff. Whatever famous last words you use an excuse doesn’t matter -- as long as you allow them to stop you they are … [Read more...]
News from My New Hometown
Please excuse my proud mom moment! My son, Keegan, has a new company called Eternal Returns. My new hometown of Nashville and one of our very own local (and family) businesses, Eternal Returns, took center stage in the July 22nd airing of America’s Most Desperate Kitchens on HGTV. The Home and Garden Network, HGTV, aired the Collectible … [Read more...]
Even in Joy
Even in joy there is a shadow of sorrow once you have experienced great loss. This week that shadow hung over me as I prepared to depart the plane at SeaTac to visit my dad. I knew ahead of me in the airport was the spot I had stood when I first realized my mother was dying over four years ago. In January of 2011 I stood outside the gates at … [Read more...]
In Celebration of New Experiences
I have been to a lot of business events over the years running the gamut from INC 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America, regional and national soap conferences, meetings for micro and small businesses, Amway meetings, cruises, aromatherapy events and even a bison conference, but I have never been to anything quite like BlogPaws. First let … [Read more...]
International Book Awards Winner
Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together is the winner of the narrative animal/pet category in the International Book Awards. USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 21, 2015. Awards were presented for titles published in 2013, 2014 and 2015. Jeffrey Keen, President and … [Read more...]
National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist
I love all things Indie. I was especially tickled to get this letter from the National Indie Excellence Awards regarding my book Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together. Congratulations! It is our great pleasure to inform you that you are a Finalist in the 9th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards. Your book truly embodies the … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing for Business 101
In January we went to a bison conference with the National Bison Association. One of the speakers had previously owned a marketing firm. Due to the way social media has drastically changed marketing, he closed down his business and became a bison rancher. Well, virtually a bison rancher. He owns no land and does no ranching. He outsourced and … [Read more...]
Quick Tips for Kindle Formatting
I read a lot. I do the majority of my reading on Kindle. Yes, I miss the feel of real books and all the reasons many readers don’t make the change from paperback to Kindle. I was won over by the ease of reading from a lighted surface, the ability to highlight passages as I go and easily find it again with a quick search, and the lower prices of … [Read more...]
DIY Kitchen Chemistry with Kayla
My inbox has recently been flooded with panicked messages from fans of DIY Kitchen Chemistry with Kayla on YouTube. Yes, the videos are gone, but the recipes are not lost forever. Every single recipe is in my book DIY Kitchen Chemistry: Simple Homemade Bath & Body Projects which is available on Kindle for only $2.99 and paperback for $8.99. You … [Read more...]
Drenched Dreams
My kindergarten class was putting on the grandest of all Christmas programs that year. My mom could not sew. I can’t sew. It is a hereditary thing. I think it has more to do with lack of patience than anything. I first learned of this hereditary inability to sew when our kindergarten class put on what we thought was the largest production of Sonny … [Read more...]
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