DEAR FRIENDS
June 1, 2009If you read the May 31, 2009, post on
SlingWords, you know about my daughter's in-progress move home. While this is a major adjustment for all of us, she has the worthy goal of funding her Master's degree by using the money that would have gone for her apartment rent etc.
We're engaged in packing and moving her belongings and all that entails. To complicate matters, she's having some extensive orthopedic surgery the day school is out. This will be a two-year process of surgery, healing, then more surgery, then another year of healing.
She'll be in a wheelchair when she leaves for her first grad school semester this summer, and I will be going with her as her caregiver and companion until fall.
Because of all these demands upon my time, I'm having to take a forced absence from much of my writing life. Therefore, the website may not be updated until September 1 when I'm home again. I'll just have to wait and see.
Sometimes, life just hands us lemons, and we have to do what we can to turn the lemons into lemonade. At least that's what I've tried to teach my children. I'm just practicing what I preach and trying to make the best of things and just do what comes next.
Prayers for my daughter and our family are greatly appreciated. Until we meet again, have a great summer!
live fully...laugh often...love deeplyWe finally solved most of our technology problems. Of course, new computers do that for you, don't they? I'm still a little behind since I missed so much work due to no full-time computer at my disposal. That issue would solve itself if I could magically create a few more hours each day.
If you subscribe to
Wordplay you'll find details about the May update. For those who don't subscribe, here's a general overview.
Written Wisdom
The theme this month is
Mothers since we celebrate Mother's Day this month. After all, everyone has at least one of these amazing creatures in their lives.
The Pleasure of Reading
The Pleasure of Reading features an interview with
Michael Haskins, author of
Chasin' the Wind. You'll see Michael's name on the link list
Authors & Other Interesting People To Discover on the right side of each page of my website.
Each month, I present an entertaining interview with a fabulous author in
The Pleasure of Reading. I hope you'll read these interviews and visit the authors' blogs or websites and recommend them to your friends as well. Buy their books or check them out at the library. If they're not in the library, ask your librarian to order them.
The Joy of Writing
The Joy of Writing has an article about a business aspect of writing. Be sure and read the second in a series on
Your Internet Presence.
Wordplay, the Website Subscription Newsletter
Wordplay has detailed information about the May Update as well as an entertainment piece related to poetry since April was Poetry Month.
The Archives
The Archives contain all the articles that have appeared on the website in the last three years. (An article usually appears on its originating page for two months. After that it's moved to
The Archives unless I make an exception to this rule i.e., publishing a series and keeping all the series together until the last part has been pubbed.)
Work In Progress
Work in Progress helps me focus. This month is
Opus 5 Of 12 for 2009.
Previously Published
Previously Published always gives information about taking advantage of your previously published works. This month there's a new feature to help you.
Mother's Day Gift
If you're looking for a great Mother's Day present for your mom or grandmother, check out my mom's book
MEMORY LANE: My Sentimental Journey by Lucille Dickinson Ainsworth and Joan Ainsworth Reeves (that's me). This book is the perfect gift for those who remember America in a more innocent time. It's a nostalgic look at life in rural America from the perspective of a member of the Roaring Twenties generation.
Memory Lane can also be found on
Amazon.
Free Read Online
Chapter 3 of my latest romantic comedy
The Trouble With Love will be published this month. Hope you are enjoying this new novel which is being published a chapter a month by
Romantic4Ever.com.
Soundtrack
Be sure and listen to the playlist or soundtrack I created for
The Trouble With Love. Just go to either of my blogs and you'll see info about it at the top of the page with instructions. A new song is added to the playlist with each new chapter published.
Previous Romance Serial
Moonlight On Snow: A Love Story, the 2008 serial, can still be found on the website so tell your friends. I hope you've enjoyed the story of Dr. Haley Gant and Jeff Talent.
Link Exchange
If any of you out there have websites or blogs and would like to exchange links, just let me know. Send me an email at joan at joanreeves dot com with REAL LIVE PERSON - LINK EXCHANGE in the subject box.
Mission Statement
My goal is always to provide you with quality writing whether it's this website and the subscription newsletter or my blogs. I want to educate in an entertaining way and inspire you to achieve your dreams.
Hasta la vista, Baby
That's it for now. My May flowers are calling me to come play with them. The May update is finished. Please, make yourself at home and visit often. Like we say in the South, y'all come back real soon! Until next month, if you want more "Joan," be sure and read my blogs
Sling Words, About the Writing World, and
Joan Slings Words, Where the Writing Biz Meets Pop Culture.
Top Of PageLOVE IS STRANGETo catch a thief, Susannah Quinn, a by-the-book deputy, and D. E. Hogan (just call me Hogan), an undercover FBI agent, pose as husband and wife. Can two mismatched, pretend lovers, caught in a comedy of errors courtship, catch a thief, recover stolen jewels–and resist the sweet siren call of desire?
My thanks to everyone who rushed over to read the first two chapters of my new romantic comedy
The Trouble With Love. Chapter 3 will be published this month. Hope you'll continue to enjoy this new romantic comedy.
Soundtrack
Don't forget to listen to the soundtrack I've created to enhance your reading experience. Each month a new song will be added to the soundtrack to accompany that month's new chapter. You'll find it on either of my blogs
Sling Words and
Joan Slings Words.
Open a tab at
The Trouble With Love then open another tab at either of my blogs. Scroll to the bottom of the blog page where you'll see the Player. Click Play. Then go back to the tab where my novel is displayed and start reading. The music will play until you hit Stop or you close the tab.
I hope you'll love
The Trouble With Love and tell your friends about it. Drop me a note if you like it. I can always be reached at
joan at joanreeves dot com. In the subject box, put
so your email will make it through the spam filters. Happy Reading!
For Gifts and Promotion products designed by a writer for writers, shop at Joan's Cafe Press shop
The WRITE Way. These unique designs can be found on tee shirts, tote bags, mugs, journals, and more, and they're
not available elsewhere.
Everything is priced low for writers' budgets. There is even value-priced bulk orders available for writing organizations.
High quality? Unique designs? Low cost? Yes to all! Joan will even work with you to personalize any of the products. Just contact her by email after you've looked at the items in the shop if you don't find what you want.
There's something for every writer at
The WRITE Way.
"My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write though everything I write is a poem to my mother."
Sharon Doubiago, in Tillie Olsen, Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, 1984Copyright 2002-2009 by Joan Reeves. All rights reserved. For permission to reproduce anything on this web site, please contact: Joan Reeves, P. O. Box 1045, Richmond TX 77406-1045 or email: joan @
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