Kathryn Magendie's Blog: Lonely Woman's Guide to the Galaxy, page 29

SWEETIE's cover

Here is the SWEETIE cover draft image - if you click on it and enlarge it, you may can see how she is made of leaves and branches, but this image isn't very clear - I'll get a better one once I receive the final cover image. There's an excerpt on Sweetie on my website SWEETIE EXCERPT - it's actually a portion of the first chapter. Y'all have a great weekend!
SWEETIE cover

The Power of Social Networking on our Brains . . . The Herbert Mesa Twitter Follow Phenom

Our brains and thought process thereof are strange things. How synapses fire and things connect and rearrange.


This morning, I am particularly thinking of the power of social networking, and in this example, Twitter.

I've been kind of mindlessly and listlessly watching Food Network's "Next Food Network Star," not really getting into it all that much this season and not really caring who won and sort of reacting a bit negatively to the "I'm a STAR!" thing the FN cooks/chefs have really aggress...

Maintaining Internal Silence, Antar mouna: Yoga; How do you deal with stress?

Life's been a little hectic--a good hectic, but that doesn't stop the way my brain goes all frenetic and my body at times will complain, particularly my back. I was a personal trainer for 5-6 years, before I moved here to Western North Carolina, and exercise to keep strength and flexibility are important to me still. I've taken up running lately and since April have worked up from about five minutes of "ughnnn uhhhngnnnhhgghh" running (laughing) to a little over five miles as my best, so far....

SWEETIE's cover - almost ready to show off I hope!

Angie(l) & Me(r)SWEETIE has a cover! Oh, y'all, it's a beautiful cover and so appropriate to the story, but, as well, it is appropriate to who I am as a person and a writer—how I feel about nature. So much of my writing is nature-inspired, even when I am not aware of it, nature is threaded and weaved and seeped into my work. Anyone who knows me, or listens to me as I talk about this cove, knows how like a Mama Bear I become when I talk about this cove, the natural elements here, the beauty th...

Rose & Thorn Blog . . . and Crazy Life!

Hi Y'all! Just stopping in to direct you all to the Rose & Thorn blog, where Angie Gumbo Writer has an interview with with Ronlyn Domingue, author of The Mercy of Thin Air. Feel free to leave a comment, say hi, whatever! While there, stop by the R&T Journal and read the summer offerings.

Also, I am busy working on the line-edits for the SWEETIE novel to be released this fall. Beyond that, I've started VK III and as soon as I finish SWEETIE line-edits, I will get back to work on (Something) GRA...

Cataloochee Elk, Tobacco Barn & Caldwell house

Angie, me, GMR, and Angie's hb went to Cataloochee to see the elk. Angie had about three heart-attacks, five jumping out of her skins, two AUUUGGGH's, and three We're gonna Dieeeee's, as we wound our way round and up and then round and down to get to the Cataloochee valley (teeheehee). While there, we also visited the old tobacco barn and the old Caldwell house. I snapped some photos of the old tabacco barn, the old homestead, and the elk- but not all of the photos are in the usual way. I...

Clueless Advertising, Forehead Butt, and Me

Angie and her hubby are still here, and we're having a great time! Went to Asheville yesterday. More later, but for now, I'll leave you with a re-print of a YOG (Year of Gratitude) post I did a couple years ago. YOG was a joint blog a few R&Ters did for a year back in 2 ought something I forget cause my brain is turning into mush . . . that said . . . see you all later!


I was watching television (a completely mindless but necessary to my sanity condition I allow myself only on certain times of...

The Mountain Soothes . . . Two Friends on a Porch

Angie recently lost her mother. The last two years, she has juggled writing, editing demands at Rose & Thorn, her family--including teenagers--and along with her sister, taking care of her dying mother.



Last night was the first time I've seen Angie really Let Go. Just have a big fat huge belly laugh and throw her laugh out to the mountains in such abandon and joy and release.  The mountain cove does that. The creek surging, the birds flying from feeder to feeder and then from tree to tree, the...

Angie Gumbo Writer is here and we're on the porch . . .

Angie is here and we're settin' on the porch with our laptops, on a cool smoky mountain morning. Last night we ate and had wine and GMR prepared a pineapple upside down cake that Angie snapped a photo of and placed on her blog.

In the meantime, I'll just leave you with a post from the R&T YOG blog from a couple years ago. Have a great day!

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I remember days when I felt I had no voice. When what I thought and what I did could be separate entities, because they had to be...

What if publishing your book was like accepting and working for any other job?

If we were to think about our writing life, and publishing life, as a Job, we may consider things quite differently. You interview and you then sit by the phone and wait for it to ring, sweating, hoping. Phone rings—you didn't get the job. That happens again, and again, until finally that phone rings and the answer is Yes! The job is yours! You put on your work clothes and—

My advance will be six figures—I'm in the money!

You accept the job and they offer you some "upfront" money to come work w...