
A 30-something who has more ideas than she has time to write.
Location: Arizona
-- Year 2008 Project --
Like Water for Chocolate" - Laura Esquivel
October's recipe: Cream Fritters
November's recipe: Beans with Chile, Tezcucana-style
-- Story Updates --
"Revelations" - Genre category updated. Chapters 4 & 5 are in progress. Posting time unknown.
-- Coming Soon --
Novels
"Leave me be!" (working title, outline stages)
-- For four years, she'd lived her life as if nothing had happened. Her heart wasn't shattered; her soul wasn't slivered. Life's lessons are never easy, and the past hasn't yet finished with Mollie Becker.
Five-Chapter Series
"A Night to Remember"
-- One night. Five Souls. One chance to free themselves from what others would call Destiny. Some will choose life, some will choose death, and some will change the world.
"Ode to Hell"
-- Short stories centering on the one place no one wants to be, but can't seem to escape.
I. "Henry Kilene, Sinner" (working title)
-- Henry Kilene no longer feared Hell. He relived it every evening at the stroke of eight.
II. "Fallen Angel" (working title)
-- The path to Heaven has always been through Hell. Jason decided to take a shortcut, convinced there was a better one. Oblivion was quite happy to show him that there are worse things...
-- References I find myself coming back to --
Marriage:
-- "Love, Dating, and Marriage. A Marriage Prep Guide." - Father Frank E. Papa, S.O.L.T., J.C.D.
-- "Good News about Sex & Marriage. Answers to your Honest Questions about Catholic Teaching." - Christopher West (christopherwest.com)
-- "Married People Staying Together in the Age of Divorce." - Francine Klagsbrun (jewishculture.org/content/people/scholars/k/klagsbrun-francine)
Self-Improvement:
-- "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers." - Lois P. Frankel, Ph.D. (drloisfrankel.com)
-- "How to Win Friends and Influence People." - Dale Carnegie (dalecarnegie.com)
-- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People." - Stephen R. Covey (stephencovey.com)
-- "Jesus, CEO. Using Ancient Wisdom For Visionary Leadership." - Laurie Beth Jones (lauriebethjones.com)