December 2011 – GoLO HoHoHo

Hi all.  I’m continuing to crank out interviews and articles on local businesses for GoLOJax.com which promotes shopping local businesses and not only big box stores.  Back to the Future with Vintage Fashions (highlighting the Clothing Warehouse) and “Tis the Season for One of Each Gifts in Five Points were both published on Dec. 19, 2011–just in time for the holidays.  Check out the articles and the stores to help keep our community vital and quirky.  Also working on a sample rewrite of Deadly Sacrifices for a NYC agent–keep your fingers crossed for me.  Enjoy the holidays.

November Has Flown By….

Hi all.  It’s been a very busy November with book revisions, agent interest and www.golojax local articles and interviews.  My mystery, Deadly Sacrifices, is under agent review and the literary agent likes it a lot and has asked for a few revisions before it can be circulated to publishers.  It’s been great to interact with an agent about my writing.  I’m also finishing up revisions to my manuscript for The Bridles of Poseidon and have begun sending out query letters to sci-fi/fantasy literary agents.  I’ll be talking more about writing when First Coast Novel Critique meets this Sunday at the South Mandarin Public Library to address a peer’s mystery manuscript.  My publication of my mythical mystery story, Clair de Lune, was noted in The Docket section of the quarterly newsletter for Sisters in Crime.  Last but not least, I’ve been continuing to interview and write about local events and businesses for www.golojax.com.  My article, Subculture, Where Fashion Meets Fun at Five Points, was published Nov. 30.  Check it out!

More GOLo and e-Books Merci!

This month, Bridges article, Flour Power in Riverside, was published on www.golojax.com profiling local business, Bakery Moderne. In addition, her story, Clair de Lune, will be featured in a French e-book version of Sept. 2011′s Mother Goose is Dead anthology. She’s busy editing her novel, Bridles of Poseidon, and looking forward to sending it out to agents. Happy Halloween!

Mother Goose is Dead…and On Sale Now!

Hi everyone. My fiction story, Clair de Lune, a modern retelling of the Selkie or Seal Woman myth, has been published in Mother Goose is Dead: Modern Stories of Myths, Fables and Fairy Tales (Damnation Books 2011). The e-book is currently on sale at http://damnationbooks.com/book.php?isbn=9781615724789.  Coming shortly will be e-book versions available on various sites like Amazon’s Kindle, B&N, Kobo, Omnilit, Fictionwise, and more. Print versions are also being produced and will be available at Damnation Books and the usual online booksellers in the coming weeks.  Keep checking the book site or your favorite online booksellers for updates.  If you like the anthology, please feel free to write a glowing review.  If you don’t, feel free to exercise your right to remain silent.:-)  Although I have published tons of nonfiction, this story is my first published fiction short story. Hope you’ll check it out!

August is Heating Up!

Hey everyone.  It’s been a busy August for me with three articles published on www.golojax.com: On the “Cutting Edge” in 5 Points (Aug. 1, 2011), It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…It’s Superheroes (Aug. 22, 2011); and, Spice Up Your Life at Green Man Gourmet (Aug. 29, 2011).  My draft novel, The Bridles of Poseidon, an undersea fantasy/paranormal adventure is also under review this month with the quarterly First Coast Novel Critique at the South Mandarin Public Library.  And my classes started, too–whew!  Wish me well in the critique phase of my novel.

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July 2011—Bridges Blog Alert!

Hi all.  I’m now contributing blog articles to http://www.golojax.com writing articles about neighborhood events and fun profiles of businesses in Riverside and Avondale, the historic district in Jacksonville, FL.  My first piece is “Gearing Up for City Cycle” about a local bike shop and its passion for cycling and dedication to local causes, like the Wounded Warrior Project and No More Homeless Pets.