Thursday, August 14, 2008

A Litte of This and That

Summer is rolling into fall. Every mother of school age children who are not home schooled sighs when school reconvenes. I marvel at families who chose to home school and who do so with great success.

My herb plants are scraggly from lack of attention. The harvested basil has been put to use as has the mint. I shall pluck what I can from my favorite herb, the lemon verbena that struggles to survive. Now that fresh herbs are available at the market, my natural tendency to avoid gardening has taken hold and keeps me inside where it is cool.

A few notes about the broad category of romance fiction: Romance was the biggest fiction category published in 2007. The number of men reading romance is increasing. Contemporary, Inspirational and Historical are the three top sub-genres. I have tried writing all three. My heart prefers writing what is known as the Regency historical.

Words of inspiration:

Hope and be happy that all's for the best!
Martin Farquahar Tupper: All's for the Best, st. 3

2 comments:

Annie Wicking said...

Hi I wish you lots of luck with your writing.

Are you working on a novel at the moment?

Best wishes
Annie

Susan Ralph said...

Thanks for dropping by and for wishing me luck. Luck plays a big part in getting published. Besides my one published novel, I have several that are finished but not sold. Yesterday, I finished the second of two short stories and will edit then send them out next week.