by Olivia | Oct 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
by Olivia | Oct 17, 2012 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
I get an F in reading. You probably do too. I read lots of books. And blogs. And magazines. And online articles. (Newspapers, not so much.) And I get an F. We’ve turned into a culture of scanners. We might read the first two or three lines of a piece of writing....
by Olivia | Oct 15, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
Six years and it’s over. Six years ago a church in my neighborhood began holding a worship service on Saturday evening. I knew it was a traditional church steeped in liturgy, and the Saturday gathering would be identical to two Sunday morning services. I decided...
by Olivia | Oct 10, 2012 | Books in Process, Uncategorized
I am mired in edits and suggestions and tweaks and rewrites. I’m not complaining, mind you. All this work means books in process, and that is what I’m aiming for, after all. I’ve been going back and forth with one editor on changes to In Plain View,...
by Olivia | Oct 8, 2012 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
What would you do? I frequently spend about four hours in a local coffee shop on Saturday mornings writing or revising. In four hours a lot of people come and go and most of them are just background buzz. But a couple of weeks ago, a group of four friends came...
by Olivia | Oct 3, 2012 | Books in Process, Lens on Life, Uncategorized
It’s too bad I’m not better about celebrating. I’m one of those people who just does the next thing that needs doing. In May I released The Pursuit of Lucy Banning, the first in the Avenue of Dreams series. I think I mopped the kitchen floor that...
