Visit BellaYTour.com for all the details of our Fort Lauderdale Valentine’s Weekend fun! All events are free, so bring friends. It’s a true more-the-merrier good time. Read More
Is it Six Thirty? Nine Fifteen?
Okay, be honest. Did you read the title and think I left out two hyphens? I understand why the hyphen in emailhad to go. It was a fairly new word and still hadn’t been standardized. But for as long as I’ve been reading books, the time of day was expressed six-thirty. Or nine-fifteen. Or twelve-thirty-two. What possible misunderstanding on the part of reader caused the powers that be at the Chicago Manual to decide that twelve thirty two was better? I can’t help myself…I had to go back and take out the hyphens after I typed the previous sentence. Read More
The Things You Thought You’d Never Say
If you’re like me, when you were younger, you swore there were things you would never ever say. Like “Because I said so.” All parents know that you violate those early on; parents say them because they’re the literal truth. It is all fun and games until someone loses an eye, it makes no sense to jump off a cliff even if all your friends do, and you will eat it and like it because your other choice is starvation, and I mean it. Read More
Apply Acid and Scrub
I got the proverbial fly up my fundament about the floor this week. About 75% of our downstairs (about a thousand square feet) is a light sandy Italian tile that doesn’t ever show much dirt. The grout color was “mobe pearl.” I don’t know what a “mobe” is but for several years now, the only “pearl” that described most of the grout would have been the name of Captain Jack Sparrow’s ship. Read More
First Chapter Excerpt, Stepping Stone
Today’s the day! Stepping Stone is releasing from Bella Books and is on its way to readers everywhere. I know some of you are on pins and needles, so here’s the first sixteen pages or so, opening with an online entry from BUZZTASTIC … a secondary “character” readers will know very well before it’s all over. Read More