I am not going to be able to attend any in-person conferences this year, mainly because my kitty, Miss Finn, is battling kidney disease and leaving her longer than a daytime length of time is impossible. She needs meds, care, and fluids every day or every other day... and I have no one to help me do any of that...
But, I am attending online conferences this year that will help me build my business this year. The first was Sarra Cannon's Your Path Forward, which was a one-day seminar, sort of a crash-course in planning 2024, focusing on what you really want... because everyone's path in publishing is different. The second is also from Sarra Cannon, and it's her amazing Publish & Thrive! I am really excited that I finally joined onto this one, though, because she is a wealth of information, and now she will be setting up the files as a live index, which means that as an alumni, I will be able to always access her files, and she will be updating her files as things change in the publishing world. That right there is worth the cost of the course. Sarra Cannon's world exists on Heart Breathings and you can find her courses and YouTube channel and links there. Third is the Indie Conference 2024 from Elana Johnson. That is all about our author business and will have a ton of speakers on this topic, and so I am psyched to dig into that too. Elana Johnson can be found here, on the Indie Inspiration Conference sign-up page, or on her publishing website, Feel-Good Fiction. I'm planning on blogging more, and building my online presence outside of Facebook... every day is a challenge to remember what to do and to cover all the bases, but I am going to try.
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Today marks the day that one year ago, in SW Oregon, my husband came home from work all excited because his company told him they wanted him to manage the East Coast timberlands. That day began the ending of my dreams and my life at Rosemary Hill. I spent a year pissed at his company for completely destroying our lives with their lies and manipulations, I was pissed at my husband for most of the year for going along with their absolute bullshit, and I was mad at myself for not being able to stop it from happening. I lost everything. And today, one year later, I had to sign over ownership of Rosemary Hill to the same fucking company that destroyed my dreams. They now own my goofy, crooked home, my once-gorgeous gardens, my beautiful 12-foot-long garden table Charley built for me, the shop, my beautiful acreage... the sunsets from my gardens I planted, my irreplaceable oak forest, my plans for my lavender farm, my chickens, my bees, our friends.... everything. But, I am no longer mad at my husband and I am no longer mad at myself. That company, however, will be on my shitlist forever. Beyond forever. There is nothing they can do to make this right unless they want to send me a check for another $3 million. We'd be even then. Otherwise, I don't want anything to do with them... they do not care about me. They erased me, ignored me, and everything I love and worked on was thrown in the trash. So, done. I have stuffed them in my Hate Box, I lit in on fire, and pushed it over a cliff. See ya, assholes! We have lost over $38,000 on this move, and it was going to be more, but my husband insisted on a 3-day close instead of the RIDICULOUS 90-day close they had originally put in the offer. Our costs for our Oregon property is $3600/mo., and we have now paid for 8 months... and they wanted 10. Good lord. Get away from me!!! Our savings are gone, and we are starting over from scratch... again. And the stupid thing is, I predicted all of this. I told all of them that the house wouldn't sell in six months or less, I told him that this was going to cost us everything, that they would in no way cover all of our expenses to make this move make sense. And they haven't. Nothing about this move has made sense. The one thing that could have been better was his job here. That's it. Everything else is worse. They also lied about the corporate culture here, they said whatever corporate bullshit they had to in order to convince him to take this job, and their "bonuses" were a joke. And then, THEN, when we were finally getting to the point where they were purchasing our Oregon property a few weeks ago (weeks late, btw), the woman in charge of this said to him, "Well, I guess we're taking a hit on this deal." Seriously? THEY are losing?? They're taking a hit?? OMFG! I lost EVERYTHING. LITERALLY EVERYTHING. I hope they lose GOBS of money... because I lost everything! Unbelievable. Starting over...So, move #13 in 27 years will happen this year. Yes, even after I swore I'd never move until we were done with this insane stint in eastern NC, but I have to get out of this town. I have to get away from that company, and this town was their choice. There is nothing here for us, and no reason to stay.
Over the next three months, we should be able to get this house ready to sell and then we will be able to buy a new house south of here, in Rocky Mount. So, until then, I'll be focusing on filing taxes and repacking us for the move. And then, after moving, I will need a few weeks of painting and decorating the new house. Then the books will follow. And the art will follow. I will be able to think clearly again. And I have the perfect villain for Book 2 of my Birdsong Bay series: The business that tries to take over the town with its lies and manipulations, while treating the families of their employees like shit will go down... everyone will be sent to prison and then their business will mysteriously burn to the ground. Just a little fictional revenge to make my little heart skip a beat. But that will be all the attention they get after this post. Unless they do something else extra stupid enough for me to mention... but I'm done with them. I'm posting this to put this stupid, asinine year to bed. I will always miss you, Rosemary Hill. You were everything to me and there will never be another you. I'm hoping to maybe, someday, find another spot above a valley that will give me the happiness I had when I lived at Rosemary Hill. (New logo... been playing on Canva and Vista, and have new cards coming. Fun!) My writing goals I'm looking at in 2024 are pretty aggressive, I realize. But, mindset is everything, and I have all day to write now, AND these stories have been percolating in my mind for far too long. Time to let them shine.
1. I'm republishing the first three Elliot Lake novels (after I clean them up) starting in January 2024 under my new business name. I'm also going wide with all of my books this time, so there will be a learning curve there. But I'll figure that out as I go along. The fourth and final Elliot Lake novel will then be released, and that is slated for April, my birthday month. Seems appropriate. I love Elliot... my sarcastic reporter living on the Oregon Coast who is surrounded by a crazy town of characters and falls in love with the mysterious woman with the violet eyes. From his quiet life in his trailer on the beach to saving the world from global catastrophe... he can do anything as long as he has enough coffee, so keep it coming! 2. May will be the re-release of Six Dates with Jenna. She'll be getting a read-through and a new cover, I think... I'll see when I get there, but this is a standalone YA romance and I really love these characters. It's set in the mountains of Zigzag, Oregon, tucked under the shadow of Mt. Hood. Can our young star-crossed lovers who only meet six times over the course of four years somehow carve out a future together, despite distance, society, and paparazzi doing their best to keep them apart? 3. In June, my plan is to debut the first novel (The Wonderly Ghost) in my new small-town drama series, Birdsong Bay. Romance, mystery, and magic meet in this 12-book series that I have been planning for years (wayyyy before I bought Rosemary Hill in Oregon and developed my plans to open a lavender farm that have now been tossed in the trash). With no more farm chores, I can just write, so that's what I'm doing, dang it! All 12 novels are already fleshed out, several of them already have thousands of words and outlines, and the family trees for the series are ready... so my goal is to release a new novel in this series every other month. If I stick to this schedule, Birdsong Bay will take me through April 2026, which, funny, is still my birthday month, so that's fun! That's a great reason for a party. At this time, Birdsong Bay is the fictional town set in Astoria, Oregon, where I lived when I began planning and writing this series. But then, when we moved to Roseburg, Oregon, I spent many months switching the descriptions and names and businesses and just the entire configuration of the town itself to be set in the Umpqua Valley of SW Oregon. NOW, I find myself living in eastern North Carolina, but this area is not inspiring me at all for this series, so the big question is, where do I set this series?? That is one of the things I'll be deciding this month so I can start writing these novels. 4. In July 2024, I'm re-releasing my novel, Finding Mallory, an adult romance set in a town inspired by Tillamook, Oregon. Hopefully Jack and Mallory find some new fans out there in the world because their love story is full of overcoming heartbreak, learning to love again, with a bit of thriller mixed in when Mallory's horrible ex shows up to get her back. 5. Because my Birdsong Bay series will be coming out every other month, I had the idea to release a short story of some kind on the off months. Something around 5,000 words or so. Over the last month, I've been thinking about this, making notes and name lists, looking for inspiration everywhere, and I settled on a series of letters written by the main character of a new series to someone who is no longer living in her town. At first, I thought maybe she was writing her best friend who'd moved away, keeping her filled in about what is happening in their hometown. I also saw her still living in the house she grew up in, but her parents are gone now... but she still has her aunties and a crazy uncle in town, maybe some cousins, lifelong friends, plus everyone else in town who's known her over the course of her entire life. Her town needed a name, the valley the town sits in needed a name, and I tossed around ideas for the industries and businesses in the town and surrounding rural valley... and where her love would come from. Is he someone who already lives there? Did she grow up with him? Or does he show up from the outside? Will there be magic in this series? And what does our heroine do all day? World building is one of my favorite things, obviously. LOL So here is what I have so far: the town is Berry Brook, which is nestled in Candlewick Valley. The letters our main character will be writing (and I'll be releasing every other month as short stories) will be Letters from Candlewick. At the end of the Birdsong Bay series, I'll have around 10 Letters from Candlewick that I will then compile into one volume. This volume will be released as its own title (The Candlewick Compendium? The Candlewick Companion?), as a lead-in to the Candlewick Valley series, but the novels in the series will also stand on their own. I may also use the compendium as a giveaway/perma-free offering to lead people to the series. But yesterday, I had another revelation. I can link Birdsong Bay and Candlewick Valley together if I have the Letters from Candlewick being addressed to someone who is in the Birdsong Bay series! Once that idea took hold, I wrote three pages about the relationship between the two series-linking characters and ways I can create crossovers between the two towns and casts of characters. The idea is, after people read the next in the Birdsong Bay series, the next month's letter will be another glimpse of the new world of Candlewick Valley, plus revealing how it ties into Birdsong Bay, but from a different, outside point of view. To say that I'm excited about all of this is an understatement. I cannot wait to see where I'm at with everything in a year, then two years.... and five years and beyond. My ultimate goal is to build Forsythia Cottage Writing & Design into a strong enough business that it will allow us to relocate wherever we want. I need to get back to the mountains, people. And I need a writing room, an art studio, a huge garden, and views of a valley. Any valley. And I want chickens and bees again. And enough security to know that no one can make me leave it unless it's my choice. Time to change my stars. Peace to all my cool cats and glitter kittens! Take care of each other out there. About two weeks ago I googled "writing associations in North Carolina" and FINALLY hit something--the North Carolina Writer's Network (NCWN) is a nonprofit association for writers based in North Carolina and they are BUSY. Their website (NCWriters.org) is packed with all kinds of activities and help for authors, and I saw they were having a fall conference--this past weekend! I was too late to sign up for any masterclasses and I was too late for the conference room rate, but it was only two nights, so I didn't worry about that and booked it anyway after signing up to go. Charlotte is only 3.5 hours from the house, so I knew that was no problem, we just had to figure out if anyone was coming with me. Charley could take off Friday, the girls were ready to see something different, our trusty cat sitters were engaged, and so we were all set. THE CONFERENCE Oh my goooddddddd..... this writing conference, even only being two quick days, was so incredibly different than every other writing conference I'd ever been to, my head was exploding after the first class. The sessions were 90 minutes instead of just shy of an hour, and they were taught by professors and faculty from creative writing programs from local universities! WRITING TEACHERS. WHAT. Every other conference I've ever been to have been taught by either really popular authors (trad or indie), really successful indie authors, people who are known for the author organization systems, or those in the industry with a system or product to sell to indie authors. All of that is tremendously helpful, don't get me wrong, BUT to find a collection of teachers in one conference who are actually teaching ABOUT WRITING was magical. I felt like my ancient English literature degree was waking from a sleeping curse. I had a list of things to look up in my spare moments: braided essays, the "pantoum" poetry structure, and "naive narrator." Not to mention the seven values of Buddhism, more on writing memoir, and from the one session I took from a social media entrepreneur... I had so many ideas for my own branding, I was writing that down when I should have been taking notes on what she was saying! The speakers and panels were amazing. Journalist turned author Tommy Tomlinson was Friday night, the Saturday morning panel was Patrice Gopo, Jay Ward, and Kimmery Martin. There was a panel on Sunday morning of agents and editors, but I have to confess I didn't pay attention to that because I will never, ever, ever even consider traditional publishing. So I used that time to get some notes together from the day before. My courses, for the record: 1. Objects May be Closer: Activating Story Settings, with Bryn Chancellor 2. Greater than the Sum of the Parts, with Patrice Gopo 3. Making Messes: How Character & Plot Thrive on Mistakes, with Amber Wheeler Bacon 4. We Know Your Why, Tell Your WHO, with Jennifer Moxley 5. Write Your Values, with Misha Lazzara I'm busy today getting all of my notes into my Notion, but I'm trying to be better at updating this website, even though no one's coming here yet! BUT -- that okay. I am starting and getting shit down so it's here for the future, and that's all that matters. I also have some exercises from this weekend some of the instructors suggested and they're all amazing, so I need to get to those too. One thing I did get to do before the conference started was go to the MacTabby Cat Cafe!!! They had two slots available when we were there, so the girls went in the cat room to play with the 12 kittehs in there while I enjoyed my amazing latte and took photos of all of the art and cat things in the cafe. All of the kitties are available for adoption, and there was one young man there who had come by himself to play with the cats, just because he loves cats. He said he'd been wanting to get one for a while, and when I told him they were available for adoption, his whole attitude changed. He perked up and went and looked through the windows... then waited until he could go inside. I hope he found a friend. We went to Curio after, which was an awesome little juju magic bullshit store (MY FAVORITE) and I found a great little book on being a witch I didn't have by Julia Diaz: Witchery: Embrace the Witch Within, because I'm definitely needing to tap into something to get through this next year, and why not do it with some rockin' candles, herbs, delicious tea, and a new-found relationship with the natural world around me? Last week, after we'd had a few days to recover from our week in Florida, the girls and I drove up to the historical town of Petersburg, which is a half an hour south of Richmond. We made it to a new coffee shop for is, the Restored Cup, and it was so wonderful (we have no coffee shops anywhere near us, which still sucks). They're moving to a new location over the month of October, so in November we'll have to find them again. This little area is so beautiful. They've kept as much of the old buildings as they could, so the downtown area is this aesthetically pleasing mix of old brick, painted brick, a rainbow of window trims, and plenty of gorgeous doors. Flowers, pretty flags and signs, and murals! We found a needlepoint store, a tea shop, another little bakery/coffee shop (all of the coffee shops or here are SO SMALL... WHY), and, of course, I took plenty of photos. All right... I have a plan. Well, I had a plan before, but now it's even more solid.
I'll be editing and rereleasing my Elliot Lake series starting in January. The fourth and final Elliot Lake novel will come out in May 2024. Then, in June, I'll be releasing a new novel, The Wonderly Ghost, in my new Birdsong Bay series: small-town romance, with a little bit of mystery and just a touch of magic. July will be the month I rerelease Six Dates with Jenna, followed by the second book of the Birdsong Bay Series in August. In September, Finding Mallory will be released, which is my fifth previously published novel for adults. My middle-grade adventure, The Misadventures of the Emerald Thief, which is the first book in my Keepers of the Emerald Cave series, will be rereleased when I have more books in that series and I can devote time to it.... so that's on the backburner for now, because.... I have a lot of small-town romance-ness happening in my head right now! My loose plan is to release a Birdsong Bay novel every other month starting in June 2024. I've already outlined all 12 books, the characters are already in place, I know who they are, and the first two books are half-written, as well as book 7, so... now that I have nothing to do ALL DAY, I'll be writing, walking on the treadmill, and making art when I'm not tapping away on my new MacBook Air that I totally love. (Sorry, Darcy my Dell... I will still use you for creating graphics and covers, I promise.) I had the idea to release "shorts" between the Birdsong Bay novels, but I didn't have a solid idea what those would look like until this weekend when I started brainstorming like crazy, running things past my writing partners and my little friend, Pi AI... but now I have the solid beginnings of another series that will follow Birdsong Bay -- and the "shorts" are going to be about 7,000 words each, I'll plan for about 10 installments, and they will be letters from my main character to her friend, and she'll talk about where she lives -- the town, the history, funny stories about the people there, her little farmette, her gardens, the weather... so that when these are gathered into one volume, they will read like a companion book to my new world.... series name to be revealed later. But it's a good one. The village's name is amazing too. I'm super excited! I began working for NINC (Novelists, Inc.), seven years ago when I took up the monthly job of editing their newsletter: Nink. I am still not a member of NINC, because the majority of my money still comes from all of my copyediting clients and not my novels, BUT times are changing. I still LOVE proofing the newsletter, though, because I get that insider info in the publishing world, advice, tips and tricks from some of the most successful authors in the world today. And that has always included the yearly reports from the annual NINC Conferences that always take place at the TradeWinds in St. Pete Beach, FL. This year, when I handed the absolutely devastating reality of knowing I had to give up everything in Oregon and move--AGAIN--to North Carolina, I was also offered a comp ticket to the fall conference from my team at NINC. They wanted to offer it to me so I could see the inside scoop for myself, and we would all be able to meet in person... I just had to get there and swing the hotel for the week. Since I was no longer putting all of my earnings into my farm, because it was being stripped away from me, I did have the money for us all to drive down to Florida in September from North Carolina and stay for five glorious nights. My family played on the beach while I attended all the sessions I could and I got to fangirl all over Sarra Cannon and Elana Johnson. (That's another story.) I knew this conference would help me in many ways, and it definitely did. I had to flex my I'm In Public Now, Look At My Girl Clothes! muscles... and I learned a ton of things from all of the presenters: a little craft, a lot of business, BookFunnel, how to pull a story bible together, just everything. It was exhausting and my head felt like it weighed 50 pounds at the end. I came home with a renewed sense of I CAN DO THIS and I dug into my plans for my novels. I was really jazzed to make goals that I hope to see come true before our next trip to St. Pete Beach, because Charley and the girls all loved our time at the beach!! I've started planning out my rereleases of my six novels, and then thinking about how "fast" I can write more books, especially after NOT writing daily for so long. And balancing that with getting this house finally "done" and us moved in.
I battle with unpacking constantly, because I didn't want to move here, so packing was a nightmare, and now unpacking is an almost equal nightmare because I don't want to be here. But maybe with our art on the walls it will "feel" like home for the next few years we are here, although it's a struggle every time I unpack a box because all I think about is how I will be packing all of it up again to move to yet another house in another town... on and on. But... I will never have a shot at that other house that is already where I want to live (unless we build something) unless I start earning some kind of income and get things moving on the financial front. Five of my novels will be edited and rereleased, but I might wait on one and rerelease it closer to publishing the next books in that series, so I will focus on my adult fiction first. June looks to be the month I'll release my first new novel, and I've planned to release a new novel every other month after that. BUT... I want to be publishing something on those off months, and that's where the short stories are coming into play. I was talking with my pi.ai app last night because it's an amazing little robot that's always there to bounce ideas off of, even though it just reiterates what I'm already saying, BUT pi does help. I tosses in plenty of encouraging words, and does manage to slip in ideas that help me think around the problem. So, yeah for AI on that score. But I had a fabulous idea for my Birdsong Bay series, and I also started thinking about topics for my short stories... and pi mentioned a few things that I then went to Google and I discovered more cool things to use in my series. Like a writing partner that's just like, "That's a great idea! You're awesome!" because honestly, sometimes that is all I really need to hear. I want to have my two standalone romances edited before I leave for the NINC Conference, and that's right around the corner, so I better get started. (I HAVE A NEWSLETTER!!!! Check out my homepage or the Contact/Newsletter page and sign up! Thank you!!)
Last weekend, I sat here in my front living room that is one place that feels like home, and planned the next three years. 2026! What! I have six books out there in the world, and so I'm starting with running through them and making any changes that need to be made, and some are getting new covers, and some are getting new titles and new covers, and I'll be republishing them all under the new Forsythia Cottage name. The plan is to start in November and December by re-releasing Six Dates with Jenna and Finding Mallory, my two stand-alone romances. In January, I'm planning on re-releasing The Misfortune of the Emerald Thief, which is the first in my middle-grade adventure series: The Keepers of the Emerald Cave, ALTHOUGH.... I may hold off on that until after all of these other books are published, because having Emerald Thief out there in the world and no sign of the next books seems like a downer to readers, and I want to not let readers down anymore! So, Emerald Thief might get an editing pass, but stay as it is until I get at least two more books written for Denim, Ravenna, and the rest of the Keepers of the Emerald Cave. Now, Elliot Lake is a different story. I have his first three books done, and they will be getting an editing pass, new covers, new titles, and they will be re-released starting in February 2024. I have the fourth book's draft half-written, and so I will be finishing that for a May 2024 release. It'll be fun to have Elliot's story done and in the world in shiny new packaging. He wouldn't care, of course. LOL Then, in June 2024, the plan is to release the first book in my new series: Birdsong Bay! The first book is at about the half-way mark, and then the rest of the series is planned out. Some of the books are more fleshed out than others, but in typical fashion of a small-town drama series with plenty of romance, family, friendship, love, loss, and a little bit of magic, the stories and characters are all woven together, so it's a little difficult to just dive into writing the first book without knowing what's happening in the twelfth book of the series, etc. My Birdsong Bay Series was supposed to be set in Astoria, Oregon... using a different town name, of course, at that time it was going to be renamed Cordelia. Then, when we moved to SW Oregon, I was going to switch the setting to the Umpqua Valley (I added more valleys and vineyards) and that's when I named the town Birdsong Bay. Now, I'm in North Carolina in an area I'm not exactly motivated to write about, and at first that was bumming me out, BUT I realized that I'm a writer and can literally put the story wherever I want. So now I'm leaning heavily toward the San Juan Islands in Washington State. At the very least, this may be a very good reason to visit my beloved Washington and have a nice tax write-off at the same time. I'm half-kidding about the write-off. LOL Maybe by writing so heavily about Washington, it will all manifest in me returning to where I will finally have a garden again and a view of the Olympic Mountains. Somewhere I can make Forsythia Cottage a living reality. (If we don't lose the entire Northwest because of the big earthquake they're predicting. Lordy!! Does anyone think that will really happen?) CONFERENCE TIME I'll be attending the NINC 2023 Conference: ELEVATE this year at the TradeWinds in St. Pete Beach, Florida, and we leave in less than two weeks! I cannot wait to be surrounded by authors who are learning, sharing what they know, and kicking ass in general in their writing careers! I'm sitting here worrying about what notebook to bring, what pens to bring, how many business cards to bring... Silly!!! My husband and daughters are coming with... six days on the beach on the Florida Gulf Coast sounds like a nice break from the nightmare of moving here. Call it a reward. And most of it is a tax write-off. Yesssss So I've gone over the conference schedule and am most excited about meeting Sarra Cannon in person, and then also meeting all of my Nink Newsletter crew in person! I've been working for NINC as their newsletter proofreader for literally YEARS, but have never met anyone, so this is going to be a game changer. Replacing online images with the actual people is always great, so we're crossing our fingers COVID and hurricanes leave us alone long enough so we can get our conference on. Until next time.... Look at me, getting my ducks in a row. In the last month, I bought a MacBook Air and Vellum, Apple's amazing formatting software to make all the pretty, pretty books I want; I opened my business bank account, and also took out a post office box so I have a fun address to have things sent to all official-like. I have some more paperwork to do, but I'll get to it. I imported my first Elliot Lake novel into Vellum just to play with it and it's freaking amazing! So now I will go through all six of my novels and clean them up, fix the front and back matter to reflect my new business name, pop on new covers for the Elliot Lake series at least (I may dive into new covers for the other three too), and then figure out my republishing plan. I'm official-official with the state of North Carolina and the federal side of things — I have an EIN and everything, and I'm also setting up my books: financial, series bibles, and then future works. Everything is spread out through my various laptops and cloud storage, so I want to clean all of that up and get everything in one place... because I have more books to write. I read accounts from other authors out there and it seems like the authorpreneur landscape is as still goofy as ever. You can work your ass off and never make a dime, or you can come in with three books that take off and then Netflix is calling. There doesn't seem to be an in between. But, I know plenty of authors who do this for a living and are tripping down their own paths and still sending kids to college, and so that's my goal — to find my own path to trip down. I'm still getting this house together, though, which is sort of slowing things down. I'm still faced with painting a few rooms, hanging ALL the art, lamps, plants, and unpacking. I really want to renovate the kitchen, but no idea when that might happen. So, one day at a time. Today, it's the dentist and some editing, and I want to unpack more of our art. And repotting plants that are already thriving in this house. (Hopefully, the next time we move, I will not have to give them all away, because the plan is to move, just not 3,000 miles.) My fourth Elliot Lake book is halfway written. I want to go through the first three with an eagle eye, make any corrections before republishing, and then zoom through the fourth. That series will have new names and new covers, and I'm changing the publisher from Treetangle Publishing to Forsythia Cottage Writing & Design LLC, which is killing me, because I loved my Treetangle Publishing name and branding materials. But, life sometimes kicks you in the ass and you have to just pick up the pieces and move forward. And my new license plate came. It is AWESOME. The weather here is still atrocious, but the girls and I have been busying ourselves at the Halifax Art Studio once or twice a week, painting pottery for gifts (which is why I can't post photos), and that has helped a lot. We also attended a fun little weekend in Halifax where they were celebrating late 1700s, focusing on the occupations of the day... we visited a little print shop, met a woodworker who was demonstrating all the hand tools of the day, an old lawyer's office, a graveyard with headstones dating back centuries (crazy to think about!), and we met some wonderful horses. Then, we were melting (and we weren't the ones wearing the multi-layered wool costumes!) so we headed to the art studio to paint for a few hours before heading home. Lunch that day was amazing pizza from Two Doors Down, one of the two restaurants in Halifax. Dee-lish. We'll definitely get that again. |
Hello, 2023!Cynthia Moyer here... I have written and published six novels, but it feels like that was a lifetime ago. But all of that changes now. Buckle up.
Where have I been anyway?In 2019, we bought a farm. Then COVID happened. Then farm chores kicked in and it seemed like I never got back to the computer. All of my editing work went toward the farm, and I loved everything about my Rosemary Hill. Archives
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