Welcome back friends, my apologies for the delay, but here at last is our final installment in the three part series, “The Ten Commandments of Independent Publishing. The first six covered most of the technical issues involved when you choose to publish your own work. These cover the practical and a bit of the … Read the rest 
Aloha friends, I’m back with the next set of commandments for those pursuing independent publishing. Let’s go ahead and jump in at the deep end of the pool. Thou shalt own “yourname.com” and build your own email list. This falls under the category of learning how to start and manage your author business as … Read the rest 
Aloha Friends, Forgive me for neglecting “ye olde blog,” but I have been a busy girl. I’ve also been suffering from a bout of “well, does anyone really care about my shenanigans?” bouts of self-doubt. But, several of you have asked me about the blog and why I have not been posting. So I’m back … Read the rest 
Aloha all, I hope your week is off to a good start. It’s taken me another week to catch up after our “Celebration for Mr. Nak” extravaganza. But I’ve gotten back on track with the drawings. I found I was getting too caught up with wanting to make my drawings to be “exactly” as the … Read the rest 
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks dear peeps. I mentioned in an earlier post that I was one of the lucky ones. When I was going to high school — you remember how wonderful and awful those angst-filled years formative years were — I found a teacher who changed my life. His name was … Read the rest 
I think I’m getting into the swing of things. Our topic this week in drawing class: flowers. We were supposed to bring a flower and a vase and of course I forgot mine. Luckily a class mate offered to let me look at her set-up and I was depressed to see Daisies. It’s not that … Read the rest 
As I expected, now that the new year is in full swing, this week filled itself up with “stuff.” Details for various commitments I made last year. But I managed to carve out enough time to work on a painting. I was enchanted by a series of images someone posted of frozen soap bubbles. I … Read the rest 