by graphixchix | Nov 7, 2022
Let’s continue to celebrate Native American Heritage month. If you have read “Porch Music” you know that the story tells of a Seminole doll named Bettie. Betty is my mom’s name, and the book is dedicated to her, but here is another reason I...
by graphixchix | Nov 2, 2022
Creating a fictional antagonist can be a lot of fun, a bad man or woman who terrorizes others in the story. In real life as well as novels, villains are often “hurt people” who hurt other people. Because PORCH MUSIC has so many women characters, I wanted one of the...
by graphixchix | Nov 1, 2022
It’s Tidbit Tuesday and the first day of Native American Heritage Month. Although Porch Music is fiction, it contains some of my mother’s memories through the eyes of Janie. Our family’s Native American heritage and preserving my own memories of...
by graphixchix | Oct 31, 2022
How does one know when a book-signing is successful? When she forgets to take pictures. Yesterday at the park, I had the opportunity to visit with lifelong friends, new friends, and family members I haven’t seen in quite a while. People drove from central...
by graphixchix | Oct 25, 2022
Porch music happens all over the world, even in the Swiss Alps, atop Mount Pilatus. Have you seen this musical instrument before? Yes, on television if not in person. What comes to mind?
