Pre-order news
I’ve been so busy working on my next book in the Return of the Black Stockings Society series that I almost forgot to mention that my first suspense novel, REMEMBER MY NAME, is now available for pre-order at iBooks ,BarnesandNoble, and Amazon.
Forget Keeping Up
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Theodore Roosevelt Keeping up with the Joneses Keeping up appearances Keeping up with… you know But is that really a good use of your time? As a creative, sometimes you’re going to be way ahead and sometimes you’re going to be way behind a trend, an innovation, the crowd, a host of things.
It’s Not You
Sometimes—maybe many times—you might feel out of sorts, less than, awkward or dumb because something doesn’t work for you, even though people tell you it should. Actor-producer-writer, Henry Winkler, was called a dumb dog (or rather the nickname ‘dummer hund’) by his German born father because Winkler struggled—suffered really—in school due to his undiagnosed dyslexia. He still rails against the injustices of feeling stupid for not knowing how to write or say words like ‘hypotenuse’.
Forget Being Afraid of Numbers
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” Marie Curie I read a fascinating article called Hanson Could Have Disappeared. Here’s Why They Didn’t in the February 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. (For a little background Hanson is an American band, made up of three brothers, that broke out in the late 1990s with the hit “MmmBop”) One statement, of many, that stood out for me was when Taylor Hanson said this:
Forget Intention
Good intentions are not good enough. They’ve never put an onion in the soup yet. Sonya Levien Action always beats intention.