The road to becoming a published author, filled with hours of bleeding your heart into believable characters, only to have your work rejected time after time by literary agents and publishers, is dismaying. Many writers, stumble some fall and crumble into tears of self-doubt even resignation. But you have to get back up and continue. It’s…
Finally Autumn!
Listen . . . With faint dry sound, like steps of passing ghosts, the leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from trees and fall. “November Night” by Adelaide Crapsey I’d like to thank my followers for the support you’ve given my little blog. Life has been busy lately, and I’m finding it difficult to post as often as…
E. Denise Billups Interview With Jane Risdon, Author
Author Interview and Guest Authors My Guest Author today is E. Denise Billups An author with a rare mixture of Southern and Northern charm, E. Denise Billups was born in Monroeville Alabama and raised in New York City where she currently resides and works in finance. A burgeoning author of fiction, she’s published two suspense…
One September Morning
a peculiar weeping a sympathy of millions quietens as families speak loved ones fallen by a senseless act of terror, one September morning thousands of finite lives elevated to angels as towers imploded and souls rose from ashes, one sunny September morning sixteen years later we’re still overcome grieving and remembering reviving moments with…
Nature Pleading
You howled along the coast like an angry host accosting a frightened town with a category four more critical than ever before catastrophic floods rose appose street rows and continued to rise devastating priceless lives transposing rivers on dry ground drenching opposed citizens fleeing treasured abodes lives shattered and unrecoverable but memorized as they fled…
A Glorious Kick Off
Enamored, I praise a culturally diverse family of columnists Venturing a synchronized journey with a single purpose to disseminate multi-faceted articles to a globally inhabited arena your rhyme and reason to connect a virtual audience I pay homage to my fellow columnists What a glorious…
Interview With Brandon Lawson – Author, and Screenwriter
Brandon Lawson is a burgeoning author and screenwriter for the new sci-fi/ horror series, Eden’s End, to be released Fall 2017. I had the pleasure of interviewing Brandon about his writing and his new venture below. What is Eden’s End about? Eden’s End follows the journey of Gabriel who’s an angel and his human friend who…
Visceral Fears
I bow my head at what I’ve become, deep, dark death, a fallen one oozing onyx blood and tears presaging deathly fears on winged journey from a bedimmed army I arrive dripping tears, onyx daggers icing prayers crescent wings enfolding visceral fears we depart together immortal soul and dark angel to another sphere …
Lurch from Trance
Excerpt from Chapter Thirty-Seven of By Chance Desperate for a better view, Leanne strays toward the side of the home. Above an outdoor generator, a window is slightly ajar. Hoisting her weight atop the steel box, she stoops beneath the window. From her crouch, she rises and peeps over the windowsill, spying a laundry room…
Grainy Worldview
I woke to a grainy view bigotry speckled a gray hue I woke to a grainy stain bloody murder shaming a foul reign I woke to a grainy rebuke dodgy words of a grand-duke I woke to a grainy pain deep-seated hatred, black and white Will it ever wane? Copyright 2017 by E. Denise…
Eye-Catching
For several months, I’ve created numerous book cover designs for my latest novel, A Blog Affair. It’s not a willy-nilly process, performed in a jiffy, but a careful, well-thought out effort inspired by the unfolding story. You’re probably wondering why I wouldn’t invest in a professional graphic designer. Well, I actually enjoy creating my own…
Organized Protest
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead Art: Courtesy of Pinterest Daily Prompt: Organize
