Don't forget...

I'll be out at the Appalachian Festival in Cincinnati, OH tomorrow, Saturday, May 10th looking for people who want "Rona Bucks." If you're not careful, you could be handed a $5 Rona Bucks Gift Certificate!

For anyone who spends one of my Rona Bucks certificates at the website, I'll automatically enter you into a drawing to win a free copy of the newest Rona Shively book, Keeping the Faith! It will be out by the end of the year!

Good luck and I hope to see you there!

An Old Chunk of Coal?

Over the next several weeks, I will be blogging about coal mines and how they appear in some of the popular fiction of today. My grandmother lived in coal country and even worked in the coal mines for a time and I have always been fascinated by this. I'll be posting several different pieces of my research here for your reading pleasure.

Stay tuned...

Counterproductivity...

Yes, I'm nuts. I'm probably not the only person in the world whose metabolism kicks in just enough to make me hungrier. Though sometimes, it feels that way. I used to overeat because I was bored or frustrated. Now, I'm just frigging hungry all of the time. On the plus side of things, I have been walking every day and I've even started doing more stuff outside since learning that I had miscarried. I made a promise to myself to try and get into better shape...if only I could stop eating these damned fudge bars. It's not like a box a day habit or anything, but it certainly doesn't seem like the right thing to reach for when you're trying to lose a few pounds.

In any case, I'm struggling to get my brain back in gear and part of that means that you might be subjected to a little weirdness here on the blog. Pardon my lack of coherence...it's a fudge bar haze.

Currently, I'm working on that ever-absconding third Rona Shively book. It just keeps getting away from me. I have edited and re-edited and I decided after the third round of editing that I really hated what I had written. In essence, I started over, but I'm still stuck. Not sure what I'm waiting for, but I guess I'll figure it out sooner or later. It's something akin to losing one's mojo. Perhaps.

Keep your fingers crossed, say a prayer or two, and whatever other things people do for people who need a little good luck to come their way. Any day now, something wonderful has to happen. ;)

Until next time...