Paper and Silk

Thursday, February 27, 2014

My Mystery Novel is Almost Finished!!

Last year, I took part in a great program called NaNoWriMo, which is National November Writing Month. Tons of budding writers (read: me) took part and basically what we had to do was write 50,000 words in Nov..

Sound easy? NO! I had begun this book years ago, so I cheated, since I already had about 18,000 words, but I still had to struggle really hard to finish the 50, 218 words by Nov. 30.

Now is the hard part.....editing.... to make an already too long blog short, I have several 'readers' doing me the favor of pre-editing and now I'm sending it out to an editor.
Then, when all the re-writing, editing, changing, sweating, crying, tearing-out-of-hair is done, it will go to be published as an e-book on Kindle and Nook. Hopefully by April 15.

If you don't have either, Kindle, and maybe Nook books (have to research this) can be downloaded to your desktop, iPad, whatever, and you all can read my book! Aren't you lucky?

It is a murder mystery set in a New York City Hotel during Fashion Expo, where companies take booths to show off their lines of dresses. The main protagonist, Lindy Price, is the Assistant Security Manager of the hotel. She is funny, pleasantly plump and sassy.

She has several encounters with Reilly, the NYC detective in charge of the investigation, and the rest is for you to read about! (And yes, nowadays, you CAN use a preposition to end a sentence with, but we'll see how a proper-to-the-core literary editor feels about that!)

So, bottom line, stay in touch and I will send out a call to all of you to help me get a Pulitzer....right, and if you believe that, there's this long bridge in NY I'm selling.

Monday, January 27, 2014

The top piece is called "Indira" - very Indian colors.

The second is "Letters to Artists" and behind each silk 'envelope' is a message printed on wood. This piece was accepted into a Textile Study Group of NY show that open in NYC and is now traveling all over the country for 3 years.

Both of the above are 9"x9"x3".

The last is "Cure". It is 44"x21"x2". Made of all kinds of fibers, cotton, perle, raffia, wool, whatever I could find!

This next one is "Plum Island" (also 9"x9"x3") because the driftwood was found on the beach there.

She's Baaaack! New Work.

Yes, it's been a long time, but I've been super busy. Since I wrote last, I've had hand surgery (the 4th) for trigger finger (thumb). It went very well and I'm painless again.
Here are some new things I've done.