Resources

A new column! Starting in December. List of service providers for editing, proofreading, ghostwriting, graphics, websites etc!

Read more

Real Life Is Stranger

Gravy, Gone To The Dogs

Erma Bombeck once said that in her family, gravy was considered a beverage. I can relate to this. I mean, I know exactly what she was thinking, because in my family, gravy was not only considered a beverage, it was considered sacred, especially at holiday time.

My mother, many of you know her as...

Read more

Loree's Lough Down

TOM SELLECK

When I sit down to plot out a novel, I usually start with the male protagonist. Don’t ask me why (because my husband reads this column, too!), but more than a few of my heroes resemble Tom Selleck, Sean Connery, and George Cloony. Whether tall or not-so, blue-eyed or Scottish-accented, they have one thing in common: Men and women like these fellas.

Read more

At the Movies

Secretariat

Get to the theater as soon as you can to see this wonderful, heart-warming story about a middle-class housewife in 1970s America who finds her passion in life through the famous Triple Crown winning thoroughbred named Secretariat. Diane Lane gives a terrific performance as Penny Chenery, who inherits her family horse farm after her father’s death. Loaded with debt, the farm is at risk of being...

Read more