Nancy’s Thoughts
Truckin’ Along
That old saying “When it rains, it pours”? Well, there’s a mini rainstorm going on over my head, very happily. After signing a contract for my middle-grade novel, I’ve also sold a picture book manuscript. This is a story about a family member who did long-haul...
Publishing Update
Great news! A couple years ago, I decided to write a middle grade novel focusing on an angel, a fairy, amermaid and a witch. As a kid, I loved so many different kinds of books, but one was definitelystories about the supernatural, and especially, these four beings. I...
Writer’s Groups and Regrouping
Where does the time go? Last time I wrote, I was musing on January resolutions. Now suddenly,it’s the other new year…school start-up.Having been a teacher for 37 years, the September new year seemed more of a real restartthan January. The end of that long and glorious...
Resolved 2022
Mostly, I am not much for New Year's resolutions. Having been a teacher-librarian for most of my adult life, the new year always seemed like the day after Labour Day, when school was back in. And at that point, I was waaay too busy with new books and schedules and...
Of Cats and Contests
Well, well, well. I did not win that writing contest I described in my last post. In fact, after scrolling through a very long list of runners-up and runners-up to the runners-up, I had to concede that my name was nowhere on the list. Who knows? Maybe I was the only...
I Entered a Contest and…
I am a pokey writer, and the advent of the computer, while helping enormously in some areas, has not been good in others. Can any of us concentrate as well on one task for an extended period of time as we used to do? I sure can’t. Email, Facebook, games, texts…. So...