Congratulations Shelley! I'm so happy for your continuing success and much-deserved celebrations!
My sister, your distant cousin, Carol Strickland, sent me a link to your Substack last week and I subscribed and started writing you, but then something interrupted me and I never found my start again.
So, HELLO, cousin! I too, am a writer, but most of my publications have been journalistic. I wrote a column in our local newspaper for 11 years (starting out at three times a week!), then another three years for another local paper, then local magazines, and a lot of freelance work; and I wrote a book about Chapel Hill, where I live, in North Carolina. I am currently working on a memoir for my two granddaughters. Oh — and I took about five years off when my husband retired, and I thought I would too. But the siren cannot be ignored when it calls! There are too many family stories to be shared and carried into whatever the future might be. So I have returned to writing, and just completed a two-week live-writing Zoom course that lit up my creativity. SO happy for that!
Later today I intend to watch the video of your big night! I know the relief you must be feeling today, and the sparkle in your heart. It is wonderful to feel rewarded, even when it is for answering the call from within to allow the words and messages to flow out — but to be celebrated, as it sounds like you were — WOW! How very special, it makes ME smile! Wrap yourself in the joy and revel in this season of lights (and take a break from news reports, if you normally partake)!
I will be ordering Tom Boy and Poster Girl today — I really enjoyed Copy Boy!
Valerie, I read your note when you sent it and then got all distracted by holiday activity and never answered! So wonderful to online meet another writing cousin! Thank you so much for your kind words and for reading the Jane books. It has been a delight to get to know your sister Carol, and even to have her help in proofreading! Happy writing and Happy New Year!
Bravo, you and your team on such a successful launch! What a whirlwind of activities you've had to send Jane on her third book tour. Terrific book, marvelous you... huge congrats!
Congratulations Shelley! I'm so happy for your continuing success and much-deserved celebrations!
My sister, your distant cousin, Carol Strickland, sent me a link to your Substack last week and I subscribed and started writing you, but then something interrupted me and I never found my start again.
So, HELLO, cousin! I too, am a writer, but most of my publications have been journalistic. I wrote a column in our local newspaper for 11 years (starting out at three times a week!), then another three years for another local paper, then local magazines, and a lot of freelance work; and I wrote a book about Chapel Hill, where I live, in North Carolina. I am currently working on a memoir for my two granddaughters. Oh — and I took about five years off when my husband retired, and I thought I would too. But the siren cannot be ignored when it calls! There are too many family stories to be shared and carried into whatever the future might be. So I have returned to writing, and just completed a two-week live-writing Zoom course that lit up my creativity. SO happy for that!
Later today I intend to watch the video of your big night! I know the relief you must be feeling today, and the sparkle in your heart. It is wonderful to feel rewarded, even when it is for answering the call from within to allow the words and messages to flow out — but to be celebrated, as it sounds like you were — WOW! How very special, it makes ME smile! Wrap yourself in the joy and revel in this season of lights (and take a break from news reports, if you normally partake)!
I will be ordering Tom Boy and Poster Girl today — I really enjoyed Copy Boy!
Cheers!!
Valerie, I read your note when you sent it and then got all distracted by holiday activity and never answered! So wonderful to online meet another writing cousin! Thank you so much for your kind words and for reading the Jane books. It has been a delight to get to know your sister Carol, and even to have her help in proofreading! Happy writing and Happy New Year!
Bravo, you and your team on such a successful launch! What a whirlwind of activities you've had to send Jane on her third book tour. Terrific book, marvelous you... huge congrats!
Thanks Jan! And congratulations on your daily procession of poetry. A gift to all of us.