Ive been tagged by Lynette Ferreira to share 5 cool/weird/random things about myself, so here goes: Are you ready for Betty? :-) 1. I spent my wedding night (and my honeymoon) in the hospital. My groom and I were about 15 miles South of our home in Sacramento, heading for a honeymoon in Carmel, when a car hit us as Bob was making a left-hand turn to fill up on gas. I struck my head on the dashboard and next thing I remember was lying on the pavement with someone placing a jacket beneath my head for a pillow. I must have passed out because I didnt regain consciousness until the next morning. My husband and his father were standing at foot of bed and I recognized them immediately...and just KNEW I was ok. However, I had a minor fracture so they kept me in hospital eleven days until they made sure I was going to be okay. (In those days, all hospital stays were longer. That was 1952 and MRI didnt come into health care until the early 1980s.) Thank God, there were no later effects on me. I was blessed. 2. Another unknown fact with humorous aspects (hind-sight): One night when my six children were sleeping...about nine-thirty... the police knocked on the door, wanting me to wake the kids so the could look at their feet. They explained that someone had spray-painted some hate words on a neighbors door down the block. Of course, I let them, and there was no paint on their feet so all ended well for us. We found out next day that son Bobs little friend (about ten) didnt fare so well. He lived next door to the man and YES, he did the spray-painting, then stepped in some of the paint. We couldnt believe it, because that kid was the sweetest kid we knew. Come to find out the neighbor was always grouchy with kids and had blamed Jim for things he didnt do on more than one occasion. We were all glad that he didnt get into much trouble for it; no juvie or anything like that. Just good old-fashioned grounding by his parents. 3. I hate snakes with a passion and will not even read a book with a snake on the cover. (I made exceptions for three friends who wrote books, but winced each time I glanced at the covers.) 4. Im not super athletic (like three of my children), but I could sure cut a mean jitterbug back in my day. I played a little softball at school and once I rode a horse well enough to try my hand at roping. I was just learning to rope a fence when I got a job as editor of the Gilroy News Herald. We had to move from San Jose to Gilroy, and thats the last time I rode a horse. From then on out, it was writing, writing, writing for me. (I had had various free-lance writing jobs as columnist and feature writer for various small papers, part time...so my heart was always with writing. 5. Because I review for Amazon and Midwest Book Reviews (let up on that one lately), I get five or six review requests daily...and I constantly get requests from new potential authors, asking me how they can get published. It would take a book to tell them all about it, and since it took many years for me to reach this point, I just dont have the time to tell them. Since other people have written books on the subject, I generally refer them to one book or another. I have a collection of about forty books on writing...from character description to screenplays. I learned from those books and from relentlessly pursuing agents, publishers, producers, directors, etc. Its a long journey, with few shortcuts, unless you simply luck out and are in the right place at the right time. I wish all writers good luck with their projects. Best advice I can give is to make sure the writing is properly edited. I get so discouraged when I read so many e-books loaded with errors... sigh... I am tagging Joanna Lee Doster, Loretta Wheeler, Janet Beasley Author and Wayne Zurl
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 19:50:12 +0000
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