Darlene Olivo’s wonderful cover design for Courting Kathleen Hannigan is a FINALIST in a contest offered by SUSAN WHITFILED on her blog. GO TO HER SITE and VOTE for Darlene’s cover!!
The GOOD NEWS: My newest novel, WARMING UP, made it to the QuarterFinals of the amazon.com Breathrough Novel Award competition (top 250 out of 5000–still a ways to go!) The next round is judged by Penguin editors, but they will consult with reviews you might post, based on your reading of an excerpt like the […]
The Chicago Lawyer asked me to write a column reflecting on change in the profession, from the days of Courting Kathleen Hannigan to present. See the article.
As co-chair of the Lawyers for the Creative Arts/John Marshall Law School PEN TO PRESS Conference on self-publishing, I am thrilled to report that almost a hundred people joined us for informative panels and exhibits, an inspirational luncheon presentation by Marc Kelly Smith, and collegial networking on Saturday, September 26. I moderated a panel on […]
ONE FOR THE ARK was just named a Short List Finalist in the William Faulkner/William Wisdom national Novel competition, sponsored by the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society. AND!!! An earlier draft of my latest novel, WARMING UP, was named a SEMIFINALIST in that same competition. Whoohoo!! My friend Julie Weary has a new novel which also […]
