by Heather | Jun 5, 2009 | Blog
My publisher, Cedar Fort, Inc. has asked a bunch of us to start a new blog called the Writing Fortress, which with Rebecca Talley’s great organization, launched on June 1st. Most of us will be posting every-other week about writing, publishing, and life in...
by Heather | Jun 3, 2009 | Blog, book review
So the first and most important thing I can say about Tristi’s newest book is that I’m in the acknowledgments. Little ol’ me. Though honestly, there was very little Agent in Old Lace that needed help because Tristi Pinkston is such a great writer....
by Heather | May 31, 2009 | Blog, Lessons Learned from Mom
Day 25: Finish what you start. Little did I realize what a project this 25 lessons would end up being. My mom has taught me hundreds of things, 25 should have been easy, but it’s amazing how they tend to overlap. Also, as soon as I sat down to write, everything...
by Heather | May 30, 2009 | Blog, Lessons Learned from Mom
Day 24: Cake Decorating I think I’ve mentioned that my mom took a cake decorating class when I was a kid, and in those early years when she asn’t working 60+ hours a week for the business we had lots of fun cakes. As we aged and she got insanely busy the...
by Heather | May 30, 2009 | Blog, Lessons Learned from Mom
Day 23: Keep a Record For as long as I can remember my mom has kept a journal. When I was young I believe she kept more than one, capturing many of the crazy and funny things each of the kids did when we were little and still cute. I admit, I’ve been rather...
by Heather | May 29, 2009 | Blog, Lessons Learned from Mom
Day 22: Keep a Full Pantry For as long as I can remember my mom has had some kind of food storage. We were lucky that every place I remember living (other than that tiny place we lived in for six weeks when we first moved to town) had space for storage–even the...
