Pause And Ponder Favorite Quotes

          Words well spoken and aptly arranged can take the mind in new directions.  These are a few quotes that made me pause, chuckle, or see a bit of fog lift off the truth.  If you have a favorite quote, I hope you’ll share it in a post.  Meanwhile, pause and ponder.

           “The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.”  ~Lady Astor

          “What a wonderful life I’ve had.  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”  ~Colette

          “Don’t compromise yourself.  You are all you’ve got.”  ~Janis Joplin

          “To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.”  ~Sister Mary Lauretta

          “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer and wish we didn’t.” ~Erica Jong

          “If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.”  ~Rita Mae Brown

          “No artist is ahead of his time.  He is the time.  It is just that others are behind the time.”  ~Martha Graham.

          “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”  ~Kathleen Norris

          “Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”  ~Mark Twain

          “There are three rules for writing the novel, unfortunately no one knows what they are.” ~Somerset Maugham

          “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” ~Napoleon Hill

 

The Muse Went Missing

For quite a long time, fairy tale length, in fact, my muse slumbered.

Pages and pages of thanks to Dan McGirt at Trove Books for pushing, prodding and patiently persuading me to get with it and get my backlist of books out in digital format.  A few months later my first two novels, Dark Splendor and Whispers at Midnight, Sexy Gothics, first published in the late eighties are available as ebooks with brand new beautiful covers.  They debuted at Smashwords.com and in a few weeks will be widely available at Amazon and other ebook retailers.

The bonus is that I now have characters, plots and storylines kicking around in my head and I am now as excited about writing as I was when I started my first novel.  My muse is wide awake again.  She nodded off because she did not want to deal with me.  We have a new bargain.  I write.  She keeps the ideas coming.

Pages of thanks, also, to J.A. Konrath, a man I have never e-met or otherwise but whose blog I read.  Thanks to Mr. Konrath for throwing wide the doors on epublishing and showing so vividly the procedures and possibilities.  His frankness and openness made it all so clear.  I got it!  He’s done a lasting service to aspiring, successful and even floundering writers everywhere.

A special note: Dan McGirt is my son, favorite author, and now publisher.  Trove Books takes care of so many details and leaves me the fun part of creating and writing.  Dan’s Jason Cosmo fantasy series is available in both the original (Jason Cosmo, Royal Chaos and Dirty Work) and revised versions, (starting over with Hero Wanted).  Visit TroveBooks.com or JasonCosmo.com to see all of Dan’s works.