I sit here at my desk in my apartment typing away on my computer, as I have done every day for the past five years. I didn’t start pursuing my interest in writing until a year after I retired for the eight-to-five office working world. I spent several years writing and taking workshops through Romance Writers of America and Savvy Authors to improve my writing. I am now self-published on Amazon. And I still take writing workshops to continually learn and to improve my skill.
Since learning how to publish on Amazon through Kindle Direct Publishing, the thought of turning the control of my “babies” over to other people when I can retain the control no longer interests me. Who knew I’d become such a control freak?
There was a learning curve involved, both with publishing on Amazon and with doing my own website. There have been times when I thought that if I’d known how exhausting learning how to do these things was I never would have embarked on this journey.
But now I’m glad I pursued learning how to self publish and how to create my own website. I have stories in me that demand to be told. And I continue to learn.
I’m 70 years old. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Catalog. The title is “Young Woman Typing,” and the date it was created/published was 1906. The creator was Underwood & Underwood. Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
News
March 16, 2022
Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day. I wish you Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, much luck, rainbows and a wonderful day.
Coming this fall: Sweet Victory, a collection of three novellas and three novelettes about overcoming obstacles. All six are historical fiction. Come back and visit for updates.
Today, there is a new page on my website. It’s a Gallery of images I have created in GNU Imange Manipuplation Program. Today’s six items are all book covers. It’s the next to the last item in the menu right before Contact.
May 14, 2021
New item in A Glimpse of Hawaii: the Gracious Alexander Young Hotel in Honolulu, the way it was and what’s on that site now.
May 12, 2021
See the historic James Campbell Building in Honolulu in 1919 and in 2021 in A Glimpse of Hawaii.
May 10, 2021
Alma Gluck posed for cameramen with reporters on ship. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b31487/. Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b31487 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b31487. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-84941 (b&w film copy neg.). Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Elizabeth N. Harris. Read the interview here.
May 1, 2021
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii! Happy Lei Day!
Lei Day in Hawaii, courtesy Hawaii State Archives Photograph Collection, Call Number – PP-48-7-058
April 30, 2021
Find out where Duke Kahanamoku (seated) is and what he’s doing there in A Glimpse of Hawaii.
This is Jeannette Rankin. Find out who she is and how she led the way for other women in the Blog.
April 21, 2021
Visit the new page on this website – A Glimpse of Hawaii. Click HERE or on the title in the menu at the top of the screen.
Interview
Alma Gluck posed for cameramen with reporters on ship. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b31487/. Digital ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b31487 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b31487. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-84941 (b&w film copy neg.). Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
April 2, 2021
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by author Theresa Van Meter for her website. She is a skilled interviewer and a wonderful writer. I enjoyed the experience very much.
Are you an author who writes historical fiction? Are you looking for research resources? Visit the Resources for Writers page and read Resources for Historical Research. Also visit my blog for an overview of Researching with the Library of Congress.
Featured Books
Stories of Hope is a collection of six stories of tenacity, survival and hope set in the late 1800s and early 1900s in America.
Left Holding the Bag
A chance encounter changes Lucy Mae Logan’s life for what appears to be the worst.
Nobody’s Child
Orphan Sally Parker’s hard scrabble life on the streets of New York City is about to change in a most unexpected way.
Phoebe
A bully gets a wake-up call in a surprising twist
The Middle of Nowhere
An item in a newspaper and a broken leg change the lives of a spinster school teacher, a widowed rancher with a young daughter and a widowed doctor who thought her life was over.
The Fire
Out of the horror of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, seamstress Aurora Lanza must reclaim her life.
Surviving the Storm
A blinding snow storm forces a man to face his past and his future when he responds to a cry for help.
