Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch aka Literary Connections

It’s that time of year.  Pumpkins are everywhere!

While you can find them for sale at many stores, it’s more fun to search for your pumpkin in a pumpkin patch.  Especially one where the proceeds go to charity.

The particular pumpkin patch I visited yesterday offers pumpkins from Farmington, NM.  I’ve been to Farmington a few times on vacation.  (By the way New Mexico is actually a state!  Search for 1 of our 50 is missing if you want to read some funny stories, or maybe not so funny, of how some folks confuse it for the country!). And, if you read mystery novels by Tony Hillerman (now carried on by his daughter Anne), Farmington is sometimes mentioned.

Just like my love of New Mexico from the trips we’d taken there made me enjoy walking through the pumpkin path that much more, literary connections can also be real.  Have you ever identified with characters in a book?  I know when I write certain things, I feel in touch with my characters like they’re a real part of my writing life.

That realness gives a flavor to the texts that makes you want to read more.  That’s why they’re so many book series out there, too, - because people can love characters as if they are real.

What realness do you put into your writing?  Have you visited a pumpkin patch lately?

Here are my pictures of the pumpkin patch I visited:

The Mailbox of the Kindred Spirit - Ocean Isle Beach edition

 If you’d like to read my story about Ernie and Melody and the iconic mailbox (The Mailbox of the Kindred Spirit on Sunset Beach) you can pick up your copy locally (and even online) at the fabulous Tybrisa Books! My book is not only set at Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach but also in Lenoir (called Rionel in the book). 

 Check it out at: The Mailbox of the Kindred Spirit Ocean Isle Beach edition

The Quiet Zone

These poems are written about the Quiet Zone and the surrounding and nearby area. There’s so much to see and do in West Virginia! The Quiet Zone is in Greenbank, West Virginia near the radio telescopes. They keep out any interference such as from a cell phone where the telescopes are so it doesn’t affect their research. It’s fun to walk amongst the telescopes! They sit among the pine trees. The area is beautiful and isolated.

The Quiet Zone

Poet

 Poet: A Poet’s Guide and Mini Workbook now available in E-book or Paperback.

This book is about what it’s like to live as a poet. It’s not just a profession! If you are a writer, a poet, then it affects your world, your head, your heart and those around you. No matter what you do to make a living, you are a poet through and through all day, all night.

Living your life as a poet is almost like writing a poem: you take words, thoughts and organize them to fit a certain structure. For me, poetry = life!

Poet: A Poet's Guide and Mini Workbook