The Day After the Music Died
February 2, 2011 will mark the 52nd Anniversary of the last concert Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson “The Big Bopper” performed at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa. On that cold...
View ArticleMy Book Trailer Experience by Coco Ihle
My son, Rob, was visiting recently and I asked him if he would like to help me put together the trailer for my book, SHE HAD TO KNOW. He was enthusiastic, but busy with work, so I did the...
View ArticleNone of You Are Winners
Times up! Put your pencils down. The contest is over. If you have no idea what I’m talking about; go read the last buhlog. First, let me start off- this was a lot of fun. There were some great...
View ArticleGenre And Your Swim Lane by Noah Baird
My publisher asked me what project I was working on. I replied I was working on two children’s books. After some discussion, he suggested I may want to publish the books under a pseudonym. A pseudonym...
View ArticleLooking for Hope, Joy, Peace and Love in all the Wrong Places… by Sherrie...
Tommy Lubinski of Tommy Love and the Love Notes fame, the somewhat unlikely hero of my new book, LOVE NOTES, is a fading star whose heart has been trampled on so many times that it’s frozen solid....
View ArticleThe Kinship of Music & Writing
How many times have we heard from our editor that our sentences are choppy, or sluggish, or don’t have flow? What does that mean? I’ve found that years of studying music has helped me enormously with...
View ArticleRockin’ Bouchercon by Christine Husom
I attended my first time ever mystery conference/convention–Bouchercon 2012 in Cleveland, OH–earlier this month. Cleveland is the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum, and birthplace of DJ...
View ArticleChristmas With My Sister For The Second Time by Coco Ihle
Joanie & Coco Next week I’ll be traveling to spend Christmas for the second time with my sister Joanie. Our first Christmas together was when we were in our fifties. We’d searched for one another...
View ArticleVideo Blurb for GRIEF: THE GREAT YEARNING by Pat Bertram
Grief: The Great Yearning is a finalist in the memoir category for the Sharp Writ Book Awards, and they asked me for a 30 second introduction to the book for their “awards ceremony” video. Thirty...
View ArticleSometimes, It’s Okay to Quit by Donna Small
When I was around seven or eight years old, my parents decided to sign me up for organ lessons. That’s right – organ lessons. Not something cool, like dance or even piano. I was the kid who played the...
View ArticleLight My Fire
It was 1967 and you and I and everybody else heard this song by The Doors. I was a nice middle class girl attending college, but I’d already been married for two years, so the full import of Jim...
View ArticleArt As Inspiration by Ginger K King
My normal inspirations are strong people I’ve known or know of, seeing interesting action (no audio) or hearing interesting interaction between people, my dreams and especially music. Art is a new...
View ArticleThe Hymn of Brutal Intimacy: “Hallelujah”, by Lazarus Barnhill
(I apologize in advance for the length of this post; it’s my fail for the month.) “I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord, but you don’t really care for music, do...
View ArticleCommunity, by Carole Howard
Quick: What community or communities are you a member of? Chances are, you thought of your town/city. Maybe your congregation. Or your family. As far as I’m concerned, though, communities come in many...
View ArticleCommunity, by Carole Howard
Quick: What community or communities are you a member of? Chances are, you thought of your town/city. Maybe your congregation. Or your family. As far as I’m concerned, though, communities come in many...
View ArticleNever Too Late, by Carole Howard
I already know how to read. And write. I can ride a bike, speak French, drive a manual transmission, knit, and a whole host of other things. You do too, of course, though your list will differ from...
View ArticleUsing Copyrighted Song Lyrics by Christine Husom
I was talking with another author recently, and we got into a discussion about using song lyrics in books, stories, or articles. She’d heard a presentation by an attorney on the subject, and the bottom...
View ArticleCommunity, by Carole Howard
Quick: What community or communities are you a member of? Chances are, you thought of your town/city. Maybe your congregation. Or your family. As far as I’m concerned, though, communities come in many...
View ArticleThe One-Way Mirror, by Carole Howard
Violinists sometimes claim they play the most difficult instrument. After all, there are no keys to press that automatically produce “C#.” Nor are there frets, as on a guitar neck, for guidance. You...
View ArticleCaught in the Middle of a Mafia War “Not My Time to Go” by Thornton Cline
Thornton Cline, author of “Not My Time to Go” Chapter Seven If you’ve been following my monthly Indigo Sea Press blog, you’ll know that I have been focusing on stories of my angelic protection...
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