The opening scene from my current work in progress, Welcome to Blooms.
Daisy Bluhm doesn’t want to run the family flower shop. But when her father suffers a stroke, Daisy and her slacker brother, Bud, are the family’s only hope of saving the store. But will saving her family’s dreams mean giving up her own?
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Progress Report #2: February was a busy month!
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I don’t like Valentine’s Day.
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Welcome to my first progress report, where I’ll be checking in monthly to let you know what’s going on in my writerly world. Together we’ll learn what being a “Second Act” Author is like.
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This past year, the first year in which I actively dedicated myself to writing as a career, not simply a hobby, I have been overwhelmed by the amount of things I did not know I did not know about being a writer. Here are my top takeaways for other aspiring authors-in-waiting, the things I wish someone would have told me before I embarrassed myself by ever thinking this might be easy.
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