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Books Read in October

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  October is one of my favorite months and I was really looking forward to celebrating spooky season. But as it turned out, I did very little celebrating. I went all minimalist for the Halloween decorations and barely watched any horror movies. But at least both of my kids enjoyed the energy we put into celebrating their birthdays! My oldest turned twenty-five this month and my youngest turned nineteen. Oh, and I also celebrated nine years of being sober on October 12. Yay!   I may not have put much effort into celebrating spooky season this month but I certainly put A LOT of energy into the work I did for the press – both Twisted Dreams Press as well as Dreamweaver Press. The good news is that my business partner, Jennifer Horgan, who owns Twisted Dreams Press is getting stronger and recovering more and more each day. She is not yet able to walk again, but with the help of physiotherapy, she is getting there. And she is working on tackling her cognitive challenges that ...
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Books Read in September

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  One of the things that I noticed around the end of the month was that certain websites did not publish as many articles that they normally publish. I figured that had to do with the fact that it was September, a busy month for everyone. Students are returning to school, some folks are returning to jobs after extensive vacations, and families are adjusting to new schedules.   Well, the only thing that I had to adjust to this month was taking on extra work for Dreamweaver Press. Our editor quit, so I took on the workload of editing all of our manuscripts. Of course, I am looking for a new editor who is agreeable to our terms, or even a new proofreader who is likewise okay with being paid a portion of royalties. But meanwhile, I’ve been tackling those editing jobs and I’m grateful to Chisto Healy for re-editing old manuscripts that he previously edited for another press before it shut down. (Thanks, Chisto!) Unfortunately, we were not able to release two books this month,...
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Books Read in August

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      Before I started writing this blog post, I was thinking about what a rotten month August was. Not only did one friend cut me off after she saw a Facebook comment of mine which she believed was about her (and she thought I was lying when I told her it wasn’t), but I also lost another friend when she lost her battle with cancer.   But then I realized that some good things happened this month too. I returned to self-publishing my books, starting with my children’s book Little Raccoon Finds the Dream Forest . It’s actually the first time I have self-published a children’s book in this size, and both my older son and I spent some time checking it out as well as talking about the experience. (He also writes children’s books and he has one coming out next year.) I’m thrilled with how it turned out and I can’t wait to share this book with other children when I do readings at schools.   Another good thing that happened was that a long-awaited anthology was ...
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Books Read in July

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  The month of July was a very busy one for me. But even before the month started, I knew it would be a difficult month to get through, because July 24 would mark one year since my older brother, Troy, passed away. I am still very grieved that he is gone.   Even so, I had a ton of things keeping me busy that made it difficult for me to dwell on my sadness. Work for Dreamweaver Press is going strong and I have a lot of submissions to get through. We also released another book this month: the fantasy novel  Insights into the Next Realm: Shadows from the Darkness  by Erika Ravnsborg. Alas, as much as I had hoped to get an anthology out this month, it didn’t happen. And Twisted Dreams Press was also busy. We are receiving submissions for anthologies as well as nonfiction books, which we are very excited about. We haven’t published any nonfiction books yet, so we are looking forward to publishing our very first nonfiction title in the near future. Twisted Dreams Pre...
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