Novels in Progress
Celie Logan's Gone to the Dogs (Formerly titled Pink Cashmere)--Women's Fiction (COMPLETE) After her Mama's sudden death, Celie, a quirky twenty-two year old dog groomer feels her world falling apart. With her odd collection of co-workers, the elderly people in her mobile home park, a little dog named Dulce and her Mama's beloved pink cashmere sweater she discovers how to move on, by unraveling a secret that proves to her that people, even her own beloved Mama, are not always what they appear to be.
Compulsive--Suspense/Thriller. Phillip, an executive for a green energy firm who suffers from an unknown level of OCD, over slept for the first time in his life On that off kilter day he attempts to get his daily routine back on track, when he believes he witnesses the murder of a co-worker, Stanford Cunningham while sitting in the train station. Being stalked by the killer and plagued by his own personal demons and his compulsive desire to find out what happened to Stanford, Phillip stumbles into a a world of mystery and one that pushes his inability to change to the very limit.
Metal--Sci-fi, steampunk, young adult. In the not so distant future, Nell is being chased by her parents who want to capture her and sell her to The Doctor for a lifetime supply of the drugs the whole of the United States are addicted to. Nell travels to her dead Grandmothers farm to find a way to escape. While there, she finds a key stamped with the word HEART. The key starts up a tiny robot named Am-Po who helps her build an escape vehicle. As her parents and sister close in, the little robot transports Nell to a world filled with robots below our planet's surface to help her find the grandmother she thought was dead. She discovers that this underground world has plans for the above ground world that she must stop with the group of misfits she has met along the way.
Jimmy--Women's Fiction. A young nurse starts her first job at The Children's hospital in 1985. While balancing starting her new career and her father's death, she is assigned one night to Jimmy, a patient that has lived in the hospital for three years with spinal astrocytoma. A tenuous relationship at first, they both struggle through their own difficulties together and find a common ground of humor, respect and friendship.
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BIGGEST AND BEST NEWEST NEWS! I JUST SIGNED WITH AGENT MARGARET DANKO OF HIGHLINE LITERARY! I'm thrilled to be working with her on my novel Celie Logan's Gone to the Dogs (formerly titled Pink Cashmere.) It's going to be work but I'm so ready!! UPDATE: All my revisions are done for Margaret and the novel is out to publishers! Congrats to Margaret my agent for welcoming sweet baby Hank into her life :) She's back from maternity leave and we're ready to get published!! Please send good mojo to Celie and fingers crossed!!
I've had many incarnations in my lifetime. I started life in Denver Colorado and have basically lived here ever since except in college. I started adulthood as a nurse in pediatrics. I traveled around the world solo for ten months then worked in geriatrics. Once I was thoroughly bored with that I dove into the emergency room. When I had kids I chose to stay home with them and that's where I was until I couldn't possibly pretend they were actually home anymore, but working adults LOL!
I was so many "Moms" over the course of the twenty years home with my kids--Room Mom, Soccer Mom, School of Rock Mom, Marching Band Food Mom, Destination Imagination Mom, Shakespeare Mom etc, etc.
In the middle of all that Moming, I searched for myself and found all sorts of interesting things.
The first was reconnecting with my love of writing. I read The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin where she spoke of doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I'd never heard of it, but as many of you know, you "win" if you write 50,000 words in a month. When you "win" you can print out your very own winner's certificate and buy yourself a T-shirt. I never thought I had a novel in me. I'd written and published a few short pieces and some poetry in an anthology that publishes everything submitted. I "won" my first Nano with a memoir of a patient named Jimmy. I went on to "win" four more Nanos that now sit in various forms of disrepair. I work on them every week with my Nano writing group which is fabulous. I also have a fun writing critique group.
As a classically trained Mezzo Soprano singing with Ye Wanton Singers, a 16th-century Madrigal group, I was surprised when I found myself as lead singer in a rock band raising money for the music program at my kids elementary school. After that band fell apart (as bands do), a group of fun and fab neighborhood moms and I created a rock band named SMAK where I sang and played rhythm guitar. Our last gig on March 10, 2020...completely packed with all our friends, neighbors and family could have been a huge super spreader, but fortunately wasn't. As with the rest of the world post covid, our band shifted and dissolved but it was a fun incredible run while it lasted. While I love rock and roll, classical music speaks to me, so now I sing in church, sing my opera at home and plan on making a CD of the lullabies I sang every night to my children.
Along the way I found Hawkquest, a non-profit organization that has thirty-six non-releasable birds of prey which we use for education. We do over 600 event a year. We have eagles, owls, falcons, hawks, and a fantastic turkey vulture. On winter weekends we fly our four eagles. I've been with Hawkquest for over eleven years! These birds have given me joy beyond belief. Any day with the birds is a good day!
In 2017 I fortunately found Bright Line Eating. Having struggled with my weight most of my life, I thought this was just another diet that would never work. After taking the incredible online boot camp with the brilliant Susan Peirce Thompson who works with food addiction, then continuing with the amazing supportive online community, I lost 75 pounds in a year and have kept it off seven years. I'm very involved with this community and have met some of the best people I've known in my lifetime! I'm a Bright Lifer forever!!
My husband Mike, a hilarious accountant, just celebrated our 30th anniversary! He's the yang to my yin so I think we're together for eternity. After graduating form university of Oregon (sko' Ducks), my son Cole has lived in Medellin, Colombia, for almost two years. He is teaching english on line and getting certifications for cyber security, and pursuing his love of music. My daughter, Meredith, graduated from Western Washington University in Environmental Science. She just started her second year working 10 hours a day outside (God bless her) with the Washington Conservation crew with the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association. She LOVES it!
We have a cute 15 pound "baby cat" named Mochi and a few fish, Pinky, Yellowy, purply, orangy and bluey named by yours truly--such a creative writer :) Life is good .
Stay tuned for Celie Logan's Gone to the Dogs!! (formerly titled Pink Cashmere)
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