Thank you! It's always nice to get good feedback. 😊

I'd say all of us in the Deep South have this problem as well.

I would be thrilled if one of my horror stories siphoned all the gas out someone's car. Thrilled and... highly impressed.

"Bang." 💔

I said publishers take 3-18 months to respond, but that's if they respond at all. Some demand no simultaneous submissions yet never bother to send a rejection letter, leaving the author hanging. You expect me to wait for a rejection that will never come before subbing to another venue? Get real.

As a librarian, I arrange my nonfiction books by topic, and my fiction books by author. I will never understand people who arrange by size or color. Throwing books on the shelf haphazardly makes more sense to me.

I've explained it to people like this:
"Think of the least attractive person you have ever met. That is what everyone is like to me."

That or saying to a straight guy (because they're always the ones who need an explanation), "You're not attracted to men. Imagine if the world was nothing but men."

I almost lost my manuscript for my first novel. My laptop was dying and clung to life just long enough for me to save the file to a flash drive. It died immediately after that, though. If the novel ever gets published, I'm putting that laptop in the "Special Thanks" section.