Twenty years have passed since Hurricane Katrina churned across the Gulf of Mexico and ravaged communities in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Georgia. In 2005 over 350,00 homes were either destroyed or greatly damaged in those states. Over 1,800 lives were lost in Mississippi alone. In each case the survivors had to answer the question: Amid the […]
After the Storm—Twenty Years On Read More »
I never intended to write a book. I lived in a small town in South Mississippi. I read books and reviewed books, but I never thought I’d write one.
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Note: This month’s blog is being guest written by my husband, Larry, who is President of Your Finest Hour Leadership Programs. He was a career naval officer, private school administrator and teacher, and for the last seventeen years
The Self-Help Novel: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Read More »
Traumatic grief illuminated in The Mission gives new understanding to a form of grief due to sudden, unexpected loss.
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Most consider summer a season with a slower pace. After a busy spring, we catch our collective breath. We look back and
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Not too long ago, I had a dream in which I was preparing to speak to a group about my novel, The Witness. While I was gathering my papers, an argument broke out between
Jennifer Jeffries, the protagonist in The Witness, was the victim of a brutal attack during a visit to London. Her physical injuries healed slowly, but the emotional damage she suffered was even more difficult and enduring.
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All writing begins as a shadow, a faint image, a specter without substance. Then something steps out of the mist and engages a living mind. What is
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “‘Tis the good reader that makes the good book.” That’s an eloquent way to voice the belief that writers and readers are
Writing is a Relationship Read More »
My novel, The Witness, is so named because a young American tourist, Jennifer Jeffries, is the victim of