About:Meg
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Welcome To The New Blog!
This is the first post of my new blog! Starting Fall by turning over a new leaf and starting to blog once again. Hoping to share again with you about writing, reading, life and everything good that comes along. I hope you’ll join me on this new journey and I look forward to spending more […]
So Happy Together Again
Every author knows the experience: a character who’s supposed to be a supporting player suddenly starts moving toward center stage. Sometimes you nudge her back to the edges. But sometimes you think, hmmm, maybe there’s something there. That’s the case with several of the characters in the two Konigsburg novellas that make up So Happy […]
Jane Haddam
I learned about Jane Haddam’s death in the way I’d guess she’d want her readers to learn about it: while reading her last book, One Of Our Own. Her sons added an afterward to let her fans know what had happened. I was sad for the rest of the day. Haddam, aka Orania Papazoglu, was […]
Plague Writing
It’s been a year now since the pandemic descended upon us. As a retired person, I was in the enviable position of being able to go into lockdown without too much trouble. I live in a state where most people are decent about observing public safety rules and, although I suffer from cabin fever as […]
Points of View
Most romances are written in third person. It’s not a requirement, mind you. There are first person romances, some of them classics (Jane Eyre springs to mind). But using third person allows you to use multiple points of view, switching back and forth between hero and heroine, for example, with the villain thrown in sometimes […]
