Cancer Hair: A story of hate, love, and loss 16 Apr 201516 Apr 2015 I have always hated my hair. It's curly, for one thing. And growing up in the 1980s, curly meant frizzy. We didn't have flatirons or smoothing serum or special no-poo…
Cancer Cancer gets real 10 Apr 201510 Apr 2015 It’s my second visit to the oncologist, Dr. Cappuccino. My husband and daughter are with me, and I’ve got my Binder of Doom tucked under my arm. It’s filled with…
Cancer Resonance 7 Apr 20157 Apr 2015 Yesterday, I finally had that MRI I've been waiting on for what feels like forever, but was just a couple weeks. I'd had a CT scan before (the one where…
Books… My New Book Has Arrived! 31 Mar 201531 Mar 2015 Hip hip HOORAY, my new book is now available! It's the fourth full-length Lexy Cooper mystery. You can pick up the eBook right now at Amazon, or you can wait…
Cancer The Good, the Bad, and the Not-so-nice 30 Mar 201530 Mar 2015 The Good Great news! I do not carry the breast cancer gene! Dr. Boobcutter called me himself to tell me. While it's always good to not have a gene that's…
Cancer Tests and the waiting game 25 Mar 201525 Mar 2015 Okay, Tom Petty, you know your stuff. The waiting is the hardest part...at least so far. The initial diagnosis happened so fast. It was Boom! Lump. Boom! Mammogram and ultrasound.…
Cancer Telling a young child about cancer 23 Mar 201523 Mar 2015 What should we tell our five-year-old daughter about my cancer? What is the right thing to say so that she will understand but not be terrified or confused? How much…
Cancer… Suddenly, cancer 16 Mar 20151 Apr 2016 Six days ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Dun dun dunnnnn. How did this happen? Beats me. All I know was that I discovered a lump, waited a month…
Writing The Care and Feeding of Minor Characters 26 Feb 201526 Feb 2015 Let's talk about minor characters.These are your protagonist’s family members, friends, and coworkers. Important enough to have a name, but definitely not an above-the-title name. They mainly exist to help…
Writing Billable Hours – A Writer’s Day 4 Feb 20154 Feb 2015 Okay, novelists don't really have billable hours. I worked in a PR agency for a brief, miserable period and keeping track of how much time I spent on every little…
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