Lisa Rivero
I am honored today to feature an interview with Kelsey Ketch, whose historical young adult novel Death’s Island is represented by Bree Ogden of Martin Literary Management. Kelsey is as generous as she is talented, and I know that her commitment to a writing life will inspire others to finish—or start—whatever work of passion is knocking at your heart’s door.
She has been a dressmaker, a traveler, a school teacher, and now a housekeeper for her younger brothers on the ranch their father built.
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” ~Charles Dickens (Great Expectations) I love beginnings, change, transitions, especially when the calendar rolls over to a new, fresh, clean month. Or, in the case of …
Like artist and writer Rebekah Joy Plett, I’m getting a little tired of snow. Unlike Rebekah, however, I didn’t think to turn the white stuff into an opportunity to exercise my creativity. Be sure to take a peek at the artistic snow sculpture she shared on her blog today, part of her 2011 No-Holds-Barred 365 …
What a wonderful day! We woke to a dusting of beautiful white snow light enough I could almost blow it from the sidewalk. This afternoon I indulged my creativity with friends at a local pottery store. Most exciting, however, was that an inbox message from a friend offered an important insight into the book I’m …