Hi, I'm back with an updated site. Just like the seasons change, I believe we as writers change. We change with each new character or world we create. Each book changes how we feel and how we see things. Often we show this through the eyes of our websites.

For me, this is also the start of a busy time. Summer usually is just a segue into fall and winter which are my two favorite seasons of the year. So summer is busy with planning, perfecting and also selling books.

As you see off the to the side here, I'm promoting a few books this season. Last Breath which came out December 31, 2008-- which technically means New Years 2009 (smile), a non-fiction work by Denise Rosier that in which I contributed three chapters, and Blood Relations which is due in December 2009 -- maybe this book too will have the same situation as Last Breath and actually not make a showing until New Years 2010 and I'll have to promote this book more next year--but anyway it's slated for 2008 and so here it is. Then of course, there's Lena Scott's work which is getting better and better with each release. West End Girls is Lena Scott's second book. The first was O.G. I believe O.G. was a bit misunderstood, although the sales have been great and I have no complaints, but West End Girls leaves little room to doubt the intention of the story. It's an urban tale of life in the ghetto from the vantage point of three young women.

I'm also doing much more research on healthcare for women over 50. Yikes am I really almost there! WOW...but hey no time to whine over there. Fifty can be the best of times or the worse of times depending on your health. I've suffered with Fybromyalgia (FM) for many years along with Post Polio Syndrome (PPS). I had what can be considered, a mild case of polio, at the age of 6 which had me paralyzed from the waist down for about 3 months or so. The lingering and affecting consquences are just, over the last few years, being realized in many older people who, like me, were imnunized late, or not at all during the mid to later 60's. Many people my age got sick back then and due to lack of technological advances our illnesses were put in the catagory of those experiencing a bad flu or even what soon was called miningitous. Only those who had crippling polio were really calculated with Polio survivors--but there are many of us out there who actually did time with the virus and are now suffering with the oft-times debilitating effects of PPS.

My newsletter is not an every month thing--it should be--but with such a busy life, I've found that getting contributing writers is harder than one would imagine. I also tried mailing the newsletter out to my readers hard cover, but found the response less than worth my effort. So, I suppose to alert visitors of a new newsletter, I'll put a 'date' or a 'new' by the link when a new newsletter has been added. I always add the link to my emails so if you are on my mailing list, then you'll be kept up that way too.

You'll be able to get on my mailing list by contacting me through the use of the comment form on the contact me page.

I do hope you visit often to see what's going on with me and what's exciting in my world. As I continue down the road to my Doctoral degree, I hope to share many of my benchmarks with my readers. This is another new feature on this site... my academic life.

This season is a good season for me in that I have much going on. I hope you find some of it enlightening. For the new writer's out there, this whole web site is devoted to showing you all how to manage you life and still love writing...

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