Sheila's Guests and Reviews

I've nearly finished a year's worth of drabbles --100-word stories and poems on my drabble blog . I'm not quite sure what possessed me to start. Maybe there was a challenge somewhere, probably on gather , last October. Anyway, I'm feeling pretty pleased with myself and wondering what to do next. There's always dribbles I suppose--stories told in 50 words--or there's snippets told in 30--or, whatever... Meanwhile, I've collected those 365 pieces ready to release them on my lulu store . And I've got a set of home-made "birthday books," one for each month, with a drabble for every day--sort of a readable birthday card. I didn't manage to sell them at the summer fair, but I'll try again at Christmas... or you can email me for more information. So... drabbles, dribbles, snippets ... what do you think I should do for my daily writes next month?

I had plans for today. Mostly they involved finally putting finger to keyboard and starting work on Hemlock 3. But today had plans too. It all began with that new year plan to try to be organized. I finally set up hotmail's calendar and starting writing things in it. Which means, of course, that my emails have started sending me reminders... Today is the release date for Mary DeMuth's Thin Places . It's a wonderful book - a memoir, which is not my kind of thing, but it's really so much more. She tells of those hardest places in her life - the sort of place where secrets hide away - and how their memory can become the thinnest of skins between here and eternity, where God's provision and love come shining through. I really enjoyed the book, and I really didn't want to miss the launch day celebrations... so I posted my review and a 259-word essay about a thin place of my own. And then I put the review on Amazon, which led to Goodreads, Shelfari, Librarything... ...