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Keep Your Claws Sharp and Your Fangs Sharper! Life is unpredictable and you have to be ready for every bite!

Anne Patricia Roberts — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:23:00 GMT

Keep Your Claws Sharp and Your Fangs Sharper! Life is unpredictable. You have to be ready for every bite!

My warmest blood curdling thanks for your comments and feedback. Readers and writers of every blend of the Paranormal, Futuristic, Supernatural, and Romance fiction are my kind of critters.

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Remember: Keeping good company is the highest gauge of self-worth! We must be priceless!

This is the week Virginians look forward to each year. Nay, I’m not talking about the week of October 8, 9, & 10 when Comic Con is coming to NYC, NY. By the by, I will be a fellow spectator and hope to see you all there (and no. I'm not dressing up.) As it is, I'm close to six feet tall. I have fluffy, auburn hair and a galactic sized personality. For sure, the only additional attention I want to attract is through my fiction writing and by providing an aspiring writer’s take on writing though my blogs and the web site, thank you!

What I am talking about is this wonderful time of year when the dog days of Indian summer tuck their tails in between their legs and head for the hills. We sweat in the sweltering blaze of summer heat for three months. We dream about these glorious days when all the screaming demon-children are summoned the back to the second circle of ... well, when they go back to school. We adore when that nights here in Virginia have cooled off to a puckering 55 F- 65 F.

We open our hearts as the ethereal autumn drifts upon us. We revere the recreation of beautiful weather, florid foliage, and the mystical morning mist that rolls in by cover of the night. The change of seasons stimulates both our fantastical imaginations and the herds of deer that dart out in front of our cars during our morning commutes to work.

It's almost perfect.

Nothing is too good to exist without demanding its eight silver pieces in payment. As the temperate weather replaces the blazing, we find ourselves tossed into a stormy time of the year on the east coast of the U.S. This past weekend we half expected to get pummeled by the latest Hurricane.

Writing note: natural forces and disasters make for exciting backgrounds and setting environments for stories.

As far as this storm went, we were very lucky. This potential mega disaster was diverted by a cold front from our West that billowed over the Blue Ridge Mountains. As it is usual for us, the cool air pushed the warm-air-fueled tropical system away, and north, where it became someone else's problem; this time. However, this is not a weather report.

Fascinating, I know (I can see you rolling your eyes). The point is that it is just this type of unpredictable event that requires us humans with our remote-control-touch-of-a-button-instant-gratification, two-minute-meal-in-a-flash get-somebody-else-to-do-it-for-us society to be alerted. It gives us a nice flush in the same thrilling way a fresh shock of electricity sends a sudden rush to the tips of our paws.

Again, it is the conflict in life which forces us to keep our Claws Sharp and our Fangs Sharper. Just when you think you are a one man/woman show. That it is you against the world, and you are winning, you get a good smack to remind you about the, what if’s. "It’s clobber time," Stan Lee's Superhero so elegantly expressed, and again, you get taken to school.

We really need reality checks like hurricanes. These tension filled situations are especially perfect for every one of us less-than-dimples on the surface of this planet that start to think our pooh-pooh doesn't stink because we have established a set of comfortable routines.

It fascinates me to no end when my fellow humans are actually surprised to receive the following news; I don't mean to degrade, but the concept that there is always going to be someone out there who is smarter, faster, bigger, stronger, prettier, taller, richer, et cetera, is true. It is NOT the human condition to think we can outsmart each other, the IRS, the weather, or the world by pretending everything in our path will all miraculously go away before any harm is inflicted and that everything is perfect the way it is. This brand of thinking leads to Zombie Brain. It's delusional and lazy.

Only you can choose if Zombie Brain is what you want for yourself to ascribe to. I want more for you. Problems, conflict, hurricanes all need to be faced head on and dealt with in the best way we can. Let me ask that we all attempt to digest the concept that life is an endless struggle for betterment. I advise the sooner and the faster you get off your butt and get something accomplished, like writing conflict rather than avoiding it, the happier and more fulfilled you will feel. Trust this philosophy, please.

When you get off line, take a minute just for yourself. Realize there is always someone who is more evolved than you and who possesses some unique facet which you lack.

Do you know what happened to me when I realized this (again) for the first time? In reference to my writing, I thought, why try if I'm never going to be the best natural or instinctual writer in the world? Arrogant, I know.

I moped for one day. The next morning I rallied, went online, bought 4 (more) instructional books on how to write; a novel, a romance, fiction, and popular fiction. Keep in mind, a few years ago I had read several other books on writing. At the time, the most important moment of my writing development had continued to elude me. Until one day, it clobbered from me out of the depths of my stubborn mind, and I got it. I knew I could become a good writer during the instant I became READY TO LEARN a new job again. Why not give it everything I’ve got?

I have had to apply myself to become a professional in my previous occupations. Writing is no different. Now, for me, writing has simply been demystified. When I reread those “how to” books on writing I can process what I read. This little miracle occurred because I studied the generally accepts terms of writing craft. I’m ready and I want to succeed this time around. It feels great. Catching on to a new occupation is tantamount to a Werewolf squeezing out the doggie door and finding a big dry tree in the back yard rather than diddle his own carpet. It is a relief.

When I discovered that with creativity writing requires the studying of age old grammar standards, I found out, I was just like every other aspiring writer. Since writing could be taught, I could learn it. Check out my first blog if you want a demo of how much my writing has improved ... and remember my blogs are not professionally edited. None of my cyber stuff is. Yes, this takes guts.

The entire time I was growing up and going to school, I could have given a rat's behind about learning. My parents didn't push me to earn good grades. I think they were just glad I wasn't on heroin or pregnant. I was a slightly above average student, only got into trouble once, and all I wanted to do was play sports after school each season. Like most of us, I went on to have several careers, bought a house, found a mate, got a car, blah, blah.

Then, suddenly it wasn't enough. I started wanting to get better at my job, and did, at least to the best of my abilities. Until one day when I got sick. This is true, but I'm not going into the details here. My focus became all wrapped up in living with two, as it turns out, very serious illnesses while trying to be the best I could to keep life on an even keel.

I couldn't work for very long after diagnosed as it became impossible with the one condition. So, the winds had kicked up to Tropical Storm level. I tried to live up to my responsibilities, my career, my home, my mate and soon everything was upgraded to a Force 5 Hurricane.

What can you do when the Hurricane is coming? You do everything you know how to do instinctually: you seek out advice, scan the weather channel, call your buddy who lives in the tropics to get advice, flip on your phone, laptop, notebook, desk top and search for more information. Other people have survived natural disasters, perhaps you and your home, that you have put your last dime into, can make it through the storm, too.

What did I do in this situation? I moped for a day, as a consequence of being confirmed ill. Then, I rallied, battened down and got ready for my own personal physical and psychological storm. In the end, I was lucky. Those tempests were diverted, too. I recovered from both illnesses in full.

Take writing or your desire to improve your golf game or wishing you could organize your time better or hoping to recover from terrible news or whatever it is that you want. Nurture your instincts and when that isn’t enough anymore, apply your set of KSA's (knowledge, skills and abilities) to your desired goal. See where you get with your own natural acumen and skill set.

If you still want it after that or have to do it or accomplish it, then get to work and try the path more often trodden. Study the craft or the roots, the basics of getting “it”, and getting you there. Study what others have done to accomplish the same goals. You have to keep moving forward. THAT is the human condition, not believing ridiculous notions - like I'm pretty, or wealthy, or well written enough for now.

It is easy thinking you have achieved something compared to other people who try and risk nothing. Challenge yourself. I assure you it is the most difficult thing you will ever do. Then, do it all over again when you want accomplish hurdling a new apex.

I started writing - seriously - three years ago. In the beginning, I was married to my laptop. I wrote and wrote and wrote with the fervor of a Vampire that had just dined on a Meth-addict and needed another fix. I was all speed and violence for getting this novel out of my head. I had the time because I was recuperating from illness and was using writing to help me rally as well as trying to excise my sanity of this Paranormal Erotic Vampire Romance that had been beating itself against the inside of my skull for years. I was all desire, no finesse. Cocky!

I completed that novel, half of the sequel to it, lots of really bad poetry, and a few decent short stories. A few weird stories surfaced along with several novella's all with the natural ability that my friends and family said they enjoyed.

Writing note: Don't use your friends and family as a realistic gauge of your story’s actual marketability or your true writing ability; it's like your Mommy telling you, you are pretty.

So, anyhow, big deal, I wrote all that material, right? What happened next? I got stuck, stifled and didn't know what to do. I moped for a day. Then, I rallied: I joined a writer's group, started my web site and it feels great trying to help other people through my own mistakes and successes. I continued to read 'how to' writing books, entered a contest, got my first rejection letter and framed it.

My web site plight garnered the notice of really cool editor. I started getting wonderful and accurate advice from her, improved more, entered a second contest, submitted something but screwed up, and got a great compliment from a professional in publishing. I paid for professional editing -- a great way to improve, read those four books I bought recently, reread one oldie, and tomorrow I attend my first online writing workshop. The more I study writing, the more I realize I don't know splat. COOL! What can I say? Some of us dig learning by getting our butts kicked. We love every step in the climb.

I walked into several other careers knowing little more than, if those other Managers, Specialists, and Inspectors around me could do it, then so could I. I'm blessed and cursed, in that confidence has never been a problem. Every one of my peers at the time was better at one thing or another than I ever became. That is okay with me. I quickly learned that how good I became at my job depended solely on me and how hard I was willing to work to get there. Yeah, there have been Hurricanes, life-threatening illnesses, the periodic chipped nail along my adventures as a writer so far, but my desire to keep trying and to achieve remains the consistent.

Easy is only a good thing when it relates to washing dishes or changing a flat tire. The gracious editor I am working with seemed surprised when I chose not to revise the novella she edited for me. I emailed her and let her know I was taking a break and was not sending it back to her for another edit, yet. I plan to. She has taken me further in my writing than anyone else has been able to. I loved her edit of my story and made all the corrections she advised. But instead of getting another edit and then trying to submit. I chose to STOP.

If I can see where my story lacks the necessary tension and plot that it would take to entertain even me, a very discerning and experienced reader of Paranormal Romance, I can do better. I had to put on the brakes and must try to become more proficient in technique and the structural elements of writing. It's not easy, but I am forcing myself to have the confidence to learn. Later, I'll take what I have learned and use those writing basics to frame my creative abilities. I want to show my readers a clear picture of the story and its motivations. I want my readers to find escape and entertainment in my stories.

I certainly do not want to risk having my first effort turn out to be a flat story with nothing but salacious sex scenes. I have read enough of those. The editor I mentioned would never let me submit something that wasn't worthy anyway. I guess now was just a good time to swallow my pride and enthusiasm. I realized, until I learn more or at least expose myself to much more of the options that the writing craft has to offer in every area: character, plot, tone, tempo, style, etc., then I'm still shooting in the dark and using my own natural ability. It isn't good enough.

Believe me, I'm just like you. All I want to do is write stories while sipping my sugar-free, gluten-free, lactose-free, decaf Latte and flouncing about in a diaphanous gown proclaiming to my dogs, "I am a Wri-i-i-ter!" I can't do it. It isn't fair to my dogs, for one thing. The other is I want to be entertaining not famous or infamous, thank very much. And I don’t own any garments which can be described as diaphanous.

I've had more challenging careers than this one. Every day at work during my previous professional life there were actual legal, public health, and safety repercussions threatening if I didn't perform to the best of my professional ability. Writing is fun, but I believe it is important to approach it from a cogent and pragmatic point of view. That is how success has happened for me in the past.

It stinks to know I'm still in the training stages of becoming good enough to produce a work that will be out there for you to read. However, it is great that my priorities have shifted away from getting published right now. Just because I have an entertaining story to tell doesn't mean I'm ready. Working harder at it, seeking out, and learning everything I can has to be my muse for now. Studying until I really get this craft and then applying that knowledge by trying again to submit something that will be entertaining, original, and of which I'm proud, will pay off. If I get rejected, which will happen, I will be better able to analyze my strengths and weaknesses and adapt with the intention of improving. It is cyclical. I enjoy this process.

Here in Western Hemisphere, the Hurricane season will last until the end of November. The behemoths will come again next year, and every following year, thereafter. I may mope for a day when the next storm threatens. However, as is my way, I will rally all over again by creating new options for myself. What I refuse to do is be defeated. I hope you may find the strength to be fierce with your goals. Be strategic and work hard for what you want in life.

Warmest Blood Curdling Thanks (WBCT), Anne Patricia Roberts

Writing Erotic & Adult vampire fiction vs writing for Tweens and Young Adults.

Anne Patricia Roberts — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:16:00 GMT

To those of us who stand in the streaming rays of the sun, shift under the glow of the full moon, or rise at dusk and never get tan lines,

Let's take care of business first. I just received my latest hit tallies for this site and my blog activity. Thank you all so much for visiting me. I had no clue how popular I am in U.K. Here is a shout out across the big pond for my supporters there. Love you, Luvs!

I wonder if my popularity in England has to do with the Brits well earned history and infatuation with vampires. I can only hope, that the astounding number of hits I get from those lovers of Big Ben is no coincidence to both a very famous British gynecologist and a fancy cosmetics line in the U.K. each using the name Anne Roberts. I'm neither swabbing women nor making the masses beautiful one shade of lip gloss at a time.

Naturally, I discovered those other Anne’s by googling myself. It's a rush. If you haven't done so you are missing out. By the way, I am the number one site under both Anne Patricia Roberts, as written in a variety of ways, and Supernatural Erotic Romance. Bragging, you quip? No, you silly bee, I set up my web site to attract attention to my writing, to help other writers that aspire to become published. I’d love to bring more readers into the amazing worlds of Paranormal, Supernatural, Erotic, Futuristic, and Romance fiction.

That brings me to my wonderful news, and then some goodies I've noticed about writing for adults vs. young adults. I wrote my first novel. Then I learned how to improve my writing. I swear to you. It was in that order. My purple prose ran rampant. They were bruised, actually. My punctuation was punctured and bleeding out, still is a little, but it doesn't hemorrhage like it used to. Those poor participles were dangling like a male model without his Haynes under briefs. And last, lest I start to rant, the point of view of my characters was hopping so fast, it was like watching the head go around and around on that unfortunate young girl in the Exorcism.

I'm still learning better uses for the English language, and always will be. I think writing is like that. Just when you are down on yourself about your punctuation or the fact that your writing has a long way to go, something wonderful happens. For example, an editor contacts you out of the blue, and she says those words you would get down on your knees and do unspeakable things in public for ... YOU HAVE PROMISE!

That actually happened to me last month. Maybe, she noticed my web site and decided to take a gamble. I will never know, but a real, live, accredited, cosmopolitan editor of Paranormal Erotic Romance emailed me. I ended up showing her a few pages of my novel. She was incredibly kind and gave me advice ... for free ... out of the goodness of her big heart. Writers are to beware, but this editor really was helping me because she wanted to do the whole “pay-it-forward” deal. A professional with exceptional values… and I got to work with her. Neat, huh?.

After her initial contact, I studied her advice for a solid week. I researched every correction she made to my story. I almost started praying the words she had gifted me, "you have promise,"" like some mantra for rain or peace or the skill to write a well crafted short story. My mumbling was answered with inspiration. Sorry, getting a bit carried away, in actuality, she was very cool. Her guidance sparked me to write a paranormal erotic romance short story, which I had, a little painfully, amateur edited, elsewhere. I submitted my story to a Publishing house that specialized in epub. Believe me when I tell you, and half the world, you will be the first to know if they buy it from me, and where you can a copy of it.

The moral to this story is not to sit in your castle, ye maids and maidens, and wait for a wonderful editor to come riding in on their great, white stallion across the mote and sweep you off your feet into publishing bliss. Women need to get real. Take any critique from anyone who will give it, professional or not. Join a writer's group, get a writing partner (more of the editor's great advice), and try to get an overall view of your writing weakness's. My primary offender will always be poor punctuation. That's okay. I have the ability to tell a fast-paced story with great sex scenes, and I'm never, ever giving up writing. Now, I understand why the author of Harry Potter is rumored to have lived out of her car. It is an honor and a rush to create stories to entertain my fellow humans.

Digress much? Yeah, well, you know you love it. You know you loved Twilight, too. It is so popular with adult females, that when I mention that I am an aspiring romance writer, and my theme is usually vampires, most women respond by saying, "Like Twilight?" Inevitably, wearing my Cheshire cat grin, I tell them, "Oh. Those books written for tweens and young adults do provide an excellent introduction to the paranormal world. Don't they?"

First of all, I am not joining the band wagon on Twilight bashing. I’m pretty ambivalent about teen literature. Sure, I see both the up and down sides of the fame achieved by that type of book.

I wasn’t really a fan of the parallels the writer drew by comparing the big, bad archetype of the Catholic Church to the book’s vampire leaders all dressed like Bishops and based in Rome. I am neither Catholic nor Mormon, but religions are a touchy subject for fiction writing.

A Mormon housewife trashing another religion is like me, an aspiring writer, bashing the success of her book. However, religious subterfuge is a no-no in youth fiction. Let’s all keep our own religious ideologies in check and write using more universal morays than those likely to be offensive, please. Other than that I am happy for the writer’s success.

The most profound aspect of the Twilight novel is that the writer has provided young readers their paranormal romance training wheels. Even though when I was a teen, I still wanted to read the build-up of sexual tension I probably would have liked this book anyway. I figure, by the time I start hitting my writing groove with my own stories those teens readers are going to be in college and chomping at the bit for my erotic fictions. Yipee!

The Dark Side Anthology features stories with drama and action driven plots, just like books for younger readers. The heroes are men, or beings, who inevitably are driven to pursue and protect the object of their desire while a developing romantic conflict builds along with the plot. Readers of all ages love reading about relationships with powerful and irresistible heroes and heroines with whom they can identify.

In romances for all ages, these heroes are domineering, gorgeous males, similar to the teen novel heroes that are less forward and more pensive. The adult and erotic story heroes have needs that must be met, deep-seeded problems they are forced to face, and pasts with filled with suffering and trauma. The difference is that in erotic or sexy romance hand holding and a kiss on the cheek isn't going to satisfy them. Thank the Deity of your choice for that.

I worry many women have been raised with such a fear of unwanted pregnancy that, even in their reading choices they can't let go of the Victorian shyness about sex that was verbally beaten into them. What is the solution? LET GO GIRL! Doing it and reading about "the wild side" of life are two different behaviors.

Being sexually promiscuous is dangerous and deleterious. Reading, and learning new things, and then giving your sweetie a tap on the shoulder and wink is all fun and most enjoyable. You can plunge into an erotic fiction anytime you want to. You have to grow up and give yourself permission to read about desire between mature, consulting adults. Reading gives you a chance to break free of your expected role in life. Try it. I promise you will not go blind. I did and didn't.

Now, I write stories that make other women squirm with delight and seek out their partners after reading one. Thereby, they bring new ideas into their bedrooms, kitchens, in their back yards at night after the neighbors got to sleep.

The allegory, Grasshopper, is that you should read a variety of literature before you lock those cathedral doors, choosing "safe" material which is popular and more socially acceptable in some circles. There is so much more out there that has been written for you, the adult woman. Jeepers, make a book cover out of a brown paper bag to hide the sexy male model on the cover of your spicy stuff or better yet, order online and no one will ever know if you are enjoying "War and Peace" or one of my tantalizing tales.

Talk to you in your dreams,
WBCT (Warmest Blood Curdling Thanks),
Anne Patricia Roberts

A Werewolf Ate My Cat!

Anne Patricia Roberts — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:00 GMT

Warmest felicitations to my sisters and brothers in Blood, Fangs, and Big Bushy Tales,

    So, B.F.D., a werewolf ate my cat ... welcome to my world! Just kidding, but sometimes it feels like my life does have a very persistent knack for clawing the "q" out of quirky and embedding it deeply into the quixotic. I thought when I grew up life would be totally organized and efficient. I really believed that when you hit a certain age the genetic "grown-up traits" inherent to all the adults in my family, at least, would kick in and make life turn into a framed glued puzzle of middle class contentment and compliance. Don't get me wrong, yes, there is contentment in my life, but there is so much more mystery, surprise, love, and bliss. Its good to know I was wrong about my probable dull future as an adult woman. Both my deisgn and path have turned out to be wonderful, but busy. So my blogging got a little bit buried for a while under my eclectic life, but no worries, I will always come back to you. I missed chatting with you all and wanted to thank you so much for the supportive comments...and the nutty ones too. In case you haven't noticed by now, this paragraph is my round-about way of tell'in ya'll that I apologize for not blogging in forever. Forgive me? Good- 'cause have I got some crazy news for you.

    I finished writing the first book! I know, how did that happen, right? It just did it. I made the time in my life for my dream and I didn't let anything stop me. So, If you want to write you will hear over and over that the best way to become a better writer than you are is to actually WRITE. After I finished the first rendition of my 300 page, 30 chapter story, I felt like a proud Black Widow mommy who'd just given birth to hundreds of little lethal baby spiders and hadn't even eaten a single one myself... yet! But really, the best advice I can give about writing stories is don't ever forget that it is the STORY that is your actual baby. The characters whom you love, that plot that is too ingenious to miraculously have come out of 'lil ol you, and the hero whom you take to bed with you each night in your dreams, are all just parts of your hard work. I believe seeing the story as a whole and keeping the big picture, the main idea, of your story in focus is imperative.Guiding those subplots and techniques that you know how to implement and taking a specific path drawn of your own design will help you so much in making sure your novel, short story, poem, term paper is as wonderful as you can make it. Was that soap boxy enough for ya?

    After the initial rush of nirvana I got after completing my first novel I started researching publication. I mean, I-wrote-a-book after all, who wouldn't want to publish it? Right? I quickly discovered that, thought my having written a novel made for great conversation at get-togethers, nobody really cared or cares that I wrote a book. Then I worried about that for, ooh, about 5 minutes, and then earnestly started doing some research about how to get my little 300 pg. miracle published. My take on actuall getting published is so a story for another day, but the point is that after hunkering down and making a sincere effort to learn about the world of book publication,
I decided that my strategy was going to have to change. What I learned was that even though I want my first book in print worse that I want to eat carbs again, I also want to bring the most attractive offer to the table that I could when the day comes for me to start sending queries.

    After having had several nice high-stress-low-appreciation careers, I am more than motivated to form a successful plan for my career and then endlessly adapt, rewrite, and/or recreate my existing work as long as I can create new tales. So my nefarious plan to get in every book store near you became about writing a sequel. I began a few months ago with the sequel and am about 150 pgs, into it. I'm such a writing monster that the first book is up to 460 pages. I couldn't stop writing. God help me, I love the escape and I love the world I've created in this series even more! Ah, don't worry about my blogs turning into the rampant ravings of a lonely bi-polar schizophrenic. Can scitzophrenics BE lonely? Anyway, I have a good balance in my life of every day reality vs. the fantasy of my stories, and I shall try to maintain my sanity as well as ever. When the sequel to the first book is.completed (yea, for the first time at least) and then I'll have my loyal and not-punctuation-challenged-coven read it for me, and after it has been rewritten and reworded and regurgitated at least twenty-five times, I will begin queries to agents whom I think might be a good match for my skill set and who, if interested, will assist me in half of my novel again anyway.

    I'm not sweating publication, I just want to write for now and am willing to let some of the stress of selling my wares stay in stasis until I have my proverbial planets in order. For now, I am enjoying being the creator. I already have at least a few chapters worth of ideas for the third book. So I wait, and write, knowing that even long after the cosmos are all aligned for good luck with my moon in Mars, or when the Aztec calendar has long run out of time and the world implodes, or if ever there comes the day when I stop shopping for clothes off of sale racks, then maybe that will be the day I run out of stories to tell! You see, even if radiation fries us all like yesterdays chicken wings, at the end of the world there will be cockroaches and Anne trying to get published while writing her next book as furiously as a space ship flaming through the atmosphere on re-entry. See, I can write Sci-Fi.

    See how much we've missed each other. This has been fun. As long as you go through each day and discover something new, life shall always be wonderful for you. So if, in the mean time, that Werewolf goes for my other cat, I'll be ready to threaten him with my own pack of loyal writers and aspiring Masters and Mistresses of the Supernatural. Then see how fast he drops the bone in his mouth and scampers off with his tail in between his hairy legs.

    Warmest Blood Curdling Thanks, (WBCT),
    Talk w ya soon, Anne Patricia Roberts

Four fangs are better than two!!! Anne creeks open her mahogany coffin of wisdom!!!

Anne Patricia Roberts — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:53:00 GMT

Happy October my pulsing platelets,

    Do you want to know what success is or shall I tease you with more blathering? Okay, okay! In the four months since I've created this website I have received over 5,000 hits, and I didn't even have to post any pictures of myself on line to do it: let alone take anything off or compromise my veil of modesty. Nice huh?
    Thank you all sooo much for visiting with me! To my mind, writing and knowing that others have enjoyed my work IS success; be it in blogs, short stories, or the few who have read my currently unpublished vampire novels. (If you missed my other blogs, I'm working my way toward publication, but with a strategy for efficiency and expedition.)
    To those faithful vampires in my "inner Kiss", I sincerely apologize for missing my September blog. So let me donate the remedy and tell you why. I have been a most industrious writer! I have acquired four major fangs, powers, head stones, in furthering my success.

Fang one: I joined a wonderful writer's group here in Podunk, Virginia. The fabulous thing about having relative strangers critique your work is that they are honest, brutally! I am unsure why, but throughout my life about 97% of people with whom I have and/or do interact with always seem afraid of hurting my feelings. It's okay with me that everyone wants to be nice to me, until I want honesty!!! If you met me you would get that same look on your face that everyone who meets me for the first time gets. It is an odd look of awe or intrigue, like...look at the cute, fluffy Panda slowly gnawing at the pretty bamboo. Oh, let me pet the softy fur. And then when the animal, which I assure you is more bear than Teddy, bites your arm off and rips out your heart with three inch long, razor sharp incisors, you are shocked! Why? That is what we do!
    Change the tides, the color of the sky, the rising of the sun, and then come and talk to me about why we are all the way we are. After a brief and very unsavory honeymoon, I have become very fond of my Podunk writer's group and grown elated with critiques of my work!!! Even the unfavorable ones, honest.
    Fang two: I completed a wonderful short story called The Serial Killer's Off Time. It provides the reader a rare opportunity to experience a day in the mind of a successful psychopath. He's kind of a regular guy, on the exterior, but that is the game for sociopaths. Isn't it? He tempts fate as usual during a strange day, even for him, where his timing is slightly off.
    Fang three: I polished the short fiction story, as much as I could, given that I am no editor; and then presented it to the writing group over three readings (we get an allotment of time each meeting). The group is diverse in background and very well educated, well read and well written. I love hearing other people's work. Hearing the author read their own writing is a very special experience.
    The first time I attended the writer's group I brought an old vampire poem to read for all to enjoy. I wrote it during a time when I thought I was a fantastic writer because I was drinking Tullamore Dew, Irish Whiskey, and Pepsi to gain incentive. Hey, don't laugh, it worked for Hemingway and I was living in Florida at the time. Just as a side bar, and so you will not worry, for years I did my best to be a "drinker". It looked like so much fun. Fortunately or not, and I am in no position to judge, but I found I have no tolerance for the stuff. I only managed to get a nastier hangover than everyone else who drank twice, or more, than me. Now, I drink about 6 times a year and make it the good stuff, because more than one portion and a hangover is a sure thing. My Irish ancestors, well half of them anyway, are doing bed-spins in their graves. I'll just have to be proud of the genetic predisposition for a fiery temper. Anyway, I read the poor members of my writer's group all five pages of my bad poetry. And they hated it!
    I went home and actually cried. I am pretty tough and only cry maybe once a year. I am lucky to have never been one of those pathetic, emotionally driven human beings. Actually, unwarranted drama kills my Chi, weakens my Chakra, and curdles my blood to the consistency of roofing tar. Use your own analogy, but I strive for harmony and achievement. Both the journey and the success make Anne a happy girl.
    So, why did I cry after my first writer's group? I am a little shy when meeting people for the first time, so I felt like the a cat facing baptism during the whole hour anyway. Then we all go out to eat, which I have come to greatly enjoy, but did not expect after my first meeting. I would have preferred to read-and-run that first time.
    I love talking to people about them and am happily willing to talk about myself endlessly...obviously. Every single one of us really does have our own story. But having to meet people initially and then discuss the usual platitudes is hard for me. I blurt because I am nervous and it comes off being brash and insensitive. I don't mean it, but I'm a Panda.
    When I meet someone for the first time it usually seems to go something like this: Married? Yes. Kids? No. How come? A life preference, and then cancer and it was too late. Then, I get the awe and intrigue look again, Panda-Panda-Panda. People invariably apologize, even though I'm pretty sure they didn't cause the cancer, and then they change the subject to the weather or isn't this iced tea really good. My awkwardness, my shyness, and the general consensus of the group not liking my epic (read marathon) vampire poem was a little overwhelming for a first meeting, even for super Anne.
    Well, my goodness Pauline how did you ever survive the peril of it all? Well, two of the women in the group cringed when I said I was aching to write a story about a serial killer. So because they didn't care for my crappy poem, whose corrections I now totally agree with and am revising per said suggestions, I went home and wrote my 5,500 word creepy serial killer short fiction just to wig them all out! So naturally they freaking loved it! Grasshoppah has learned her lesson. Write what you must, what you love, what is fun for you, and then let lots of other people read it. Listen to everyone's opinion and appreciate any interest in you and your work!
    Fang four: I entered the serial killer fiction in a writing contest. I purchased a literary aid called The Writer's Market. It was $50.00 at the book store. It was the first book since college, like a billion years ago, in which I dropped that kinda dough!!! After rechecking my sanity, my priorities and my bank card, I read through the book in earnest. It was well worth the money, and no...I'm not getting a kickback for mentioning it, nor am I doing the publisher(s) on the side. That was another joke?! Hey, ya win some and crash and burn on others, but count on me to try to be humorous. Oh, the contest, yes. I entered the Zoetrope:All Story Short Fiction Contest for a mere $15.00 fee. It's a neat idea for a publication, sponsored and actually published by Francis Ford Coppola. Cash prizes for first through third places and then seven sort of honorable mention stories also receive a possible option for literary representation by some really fancy agencies. I agree with the judges regarding the stories they selected as winners from last year's contest. The winning story from last year I found oddly written. I never claimed to be an authority on writing construction. That aside, the story wrought so much emotion out of me in the reading that it made me want to cry; in the best way ever!!! It's a good thing I've already had my cry for the year or I would have had to actually purchase a box of tissues! Any-so-matter, it's a kinda a win-win for writer's who enter because it is exposure. I find out on line on Dec. 1 if anyone was interested. If not, I have the most nefarious plans for my pre-e-ecious-s-s little story.

    What else have I been up to? Oh, by the way if you are new to my blog, let me warn you now...I'm a Kamikaze blogger. "What," you say with your sharp tonal and remnant sarcastic internal monologue. I am not a habitual blogger. I'm a hit-and-run, a binge-blogger, a Kamikaze.
    I visited one of my fav authors' blog sites. Sheesh!!! She is habitual blog-a-holic, no doubt a child of addiction, a run-away-blogger. She blogs every day, EVERY DAY! I don't want to share with the world what kinda tooth paste I use, if ya get my meaning.
    My blog is for your entertainment first. Next, I honestly wish to help others by sharing my brutal journey toward publication as a benchmark for their success, and then later letting everyone roll around in the odoriferous deposits of happiness with me. My tertiary (I love that word, tertiary) motivation for my blog is my own catharsis. It's good practice writing, but you may not ever get to learn the name of my personal brand of tooth paste, thank you very much!!! The author, to whom I refer, is an acceptional writer. I envy the level of trust in her highly detailed daily blogs, but I question her discretion. Maybe she should write about a serial killer. In the research of the story she may learn to be more the voyeur rather than exhibitionist! Maybe not.
    I promise I will...I shall make every effort to...I think I will be able to Kamikaze blog again this month to make up for my lack of discipline in September. Commitment issues much? No, but my horoscope says that I have to be careful not to make promises that I am unable to fulfill. That much of it is true. No, I am not some astrological enthusiast nut ball. My theory is, who am I to argue with 4,000+ years of Asian wisdom. That, and I have the cool ascendant of being a dragon. Maybe I wouldn't be so quick to quote eastern astrology if I were a sheep or a boar. But being the dragon that I am, they both sound like BBQ lunch to me. Sorry...every one is unique and special, and if we were all alike the world would be a very boring place. My Mom would be so proud!

Thank you for your time. Please respond. I have even approved some of the blog responses from you all for you viewing pleasure. What-a-gal! Sincerely, thank very much for tuning in. Talk at ya soon and WBCT(Warmest Blood Curdling Thanks), Anne

Three to Go Crazy: Anne on Romance, Sex and Porn!

Anne Patricia Roberts — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:51:00 GMT

     Felicitations from My Fantasy Realm,

       I make no apologies for my writing! Rape with retribution, sex married with deep emotional connection, and outrageous plots and genres forced on unwitting humans are, and shall always be, integral elements in all of my stories!
       You know YOU like to read about seemingly 'normal' people who, through no course of their own, are thrust into unbelievable situations. It's fantasy! If you are human, and moderately well balanced, then you fantasize. I do it to get to sleep at night. If I'm lucky my lulling fantasies will drift into my dreams and I will remember them. If I'm truly fortunate, then I'll get a whole story out of one. For me they are usually action packed adventures with reoccurring basic themes.
       We can't help linking the word fantasy with sex, and that's okay. If you fantasize about sex, then good for you! Does erotica or porn do it for you? Then, guess what, your human! For me it is about tempering myself and my characters. Enjoying life in all of its colorful grandeur is really important to me. Getting caught up and obsessing about any one thing throws me off balance. If given a choice of physical pleasure or mental stimulation, I'm afraid I'd be stuck sitting on the fence for a long time. I'm the kinda gal who would try to figure out how to make the 'having my cake and eating it too', analogy work.
       When my fellow bipeds get hung up on words like erotic, sex, and porno, it makes me crazy!
Really, do you think or dream about monsters? I do. Are they fully realized like mine? If so, then they have sex, they eat, they exist. But, do they offend you? No? Why not, they are monsters! Yeah, I thought so, you like them because they are taboo just like sex! We can't help ourselves, so stop beating yourself up about being politically incorrect! Maybe, I should abstain from writing fantasy because some of the content of my more graphic writing might offend? NAH!
       The best piece of advice that I can pass on to you is, that you must indulge in those activities that make you happy or the unventured will drive you nuts. If you feel like your predilections manifesting in thoughts and/or actions are dark, then keep them to yourself. IF YOU DON'T TELL ANYONE WHAT YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT, THEN THEY WILL NEVER KNOW! I know you know that, but Jeez, remember it! Sometimes I talk to people who gush information, some of which I do not need to be a party to! Needy and lacking self esteem much? Master your thoughts, and own them!
       Several of you have asked me what is up with the book? Do I ever have so much to tell you! Reading more material about becoming the next published author has been a lesson in patience! Sheesh, you can't imagine the wealth of literature and books out there on the topic of writing books!
       At first, it all struck me like the chicken and the egg metaphor. If I read one more time that it is near impossible to get published unless you are published I'm moving to the Peru to raise Llamas.
       Here is another good one. First time fiction authors aren't likely to be published unless they have a sequel novel and a readership following. Hmm?
       To get an agent or not to get an agent? How about I import all of the advice and assistance that I can from every source I can, and let my long fingered grubby paws work smart! I like that idea better than stressing out about getting published.
        Yeah! Originally all I wanted to do was write stories. Suddenly, this tame trek exploded into a wild fruition not of my own design! After my first novel was completed last year, I started reading up about what to do next! The other day, when my Doctor innocently asked the question that everyone always asks me, "how is the book going?", I nearly bit the poor man's head off. Sorry Dr.W. I answered his question with a kinda snotty, "I'm researching publication, but there is way more to this that you think!" He's a unique character and he retorted, "I never thought it would be." I guess I thought, at one time, hey just write a book and then get it published. When ever will I stop being so naive!
         I have started the sequel to the first book and I already love it!
        I dug up a pretty cool old poem of mine and worked on developing it. It's a poem about a female vampire and her reality of being a monster. Like any of us would, she tries her best to undo her curse and her quest is answered. In order to beef up my resume, query, marketability, I'm submitting it to several newspapers, hopefully in time for Halloween. I'm taking one bite at a time to avoid getting overwhelmed. I liked my Dr.'s answer, "I never thought it (writing a book) would be (easy)!" Lesson learned, nothing really worthwhile is easy. This woman loves an up hill battle. Like you, I appreciate the control associated with accomplishment!
         Next blog, I'll give ya a bit of poetry!

WBCT,
Anne Patricia Roberts

Stage Two: Diggging your own grave...

Anne Patricia Roberts — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:37:00 GMT

  Thanks for tuning in again!

Last week was sort of exciting! I mentioned in the last blog that I had just sent out my first query letter to a real literary agency!!! It was true. No bull! Remember from two weeks ago and from my web page, that I have completed my first Supernatural Erotic Romance Novel and am (painfully, but patiently) going through the real life steps of getting published along with you, my co-pilots in adventure!!! Step two proceeds, as I try to acquire an interested, motivated and enthusiastic literary agent, who has all of the contacts and, will in turn handle the publishers.

  I sent a very vanilla query to the Knight Agency. Specifically, to an agent whom I thought might best represent my Supernatural Erotic Romance Novel. She is very experienced and has listed as among her literary interests paranormal romances and scifi among the other styles of writing, and of which she is preferential. I googled her and the agency and took a shot in the darkness of this moderately unselfexplored realm. I hate being a novice at anything, so I have ordered a book and am chewing through sites on how to get an agent, write a better query letter, polish a book proposal, get published, market your self and your book, and eons of ect's.

The Knight Agency has a very informative website and I read it cover to cover, but on my expanded screen laptop, natch! I thought it was kind and generous of the Knight Agency to provide wanna be published authors with some great advice. They have a submissions page and I emailed my query letter to them on June 9th. They strictly caution all interested parties that they will not respond earlier than 6-8 weeks, if they chose to respond at all. They responded to me in 9 days!!! Better luck next time was my first query review!

It sounds snotty when I say it, but these agencies are the life raft to us writers, who are treading lightly in an ocean span of shark trolled waters. They are the talent agents of the literary world, and they are in a position to call the shots. Authors would be advised to be thankful that any agency took time at all to show even the slightest interest in their book!!! Hey, if you decide not to represent me, you just move back into the category of perspective readers of my Book!

Does the author have to be such a spineless sea cucumber when it comes to doing what professional agents say? No, you can be difficult and stay unpublished and step aside for people like me who are willing to do anything it takes, cow towing to people who make 15% of what I make, not-with-standing! Professional in presenting my platform? Yes! Following the Marquis of Queensbury Rules in my strategy? You bet!!!

Alas, on June 17th, when I received my first "thanks, but no thanks letter", from the Knight Agency, I was honored. Nobody likes rejection, but the letter was great and encouraging and I printed it up and framed it on my wall. It represents one more hurdle in a long tough race that I plan on winning, and if along the way I stumble and fall, well so be it. I've got lots of back up plans!

Authors like Hemingway and Emily Dickinson received dozens of rejection letters in their time. The average acceptance to rejection ratio when submitting query letters is 12:1. I'll take those odds. I may never achieve the level of writing that the Masters have, but I am a shameless self promoter! I absolutely love people and am a patient and confident enchantress of my wares!!! I feel that, because of my outgoing personality and living in the age of communication, I actually have a leg up on some of the Masters of those written words. I think todays Authors need to have a presence, be willing to put themselves out there so that readers and lovers of the multi-genre will be enticed into reading their novels. Is there really an author out there who thinks that their book is so stellar, that marketing and promotions will not be a huge piece of the pie. No joke, I would love nothing more than to sit all day long and write stories. But, there are benefits to staying well rounded in life and I don't wish to be reclusive. The sun is too bright a place for the likes of you and I to be hiding away from! So, I take the laptop outside...

  Did I promise and excerpt from my unpublished Vampire Romance novel? WELL, ANNE DELIVERS...

  Five Chapters into the book our hero, a vampire warrior of the Dark Realm, is called upon by his omnipotent Queen to rescue a mortal female in terrible danger. Our Queen beckons the heroic warrior to hasten! His target, a beautiful female scientist, is in grave danger and she also represents a key strand in an intricate royal web of manipulation.
Presently, the human woman is in dire straights as she is being attacked in her Virginia home by the worst Sadist and Torturer in Vampire history!
The Queen, unused to requesting anything, appeals to our hero for expedition of his warrior skills!

"Rhys?"
He knew from hearing her first breath, that on the other end, Ursula was in distress!
"Urse...Ursula, what is it? Are you not well?" Rhys' deep voice was tense and he immediately sat straight up in bed. Ursula's familiar song was lifeless on the line, she usually sounded so melodically animated, but not today.
"Darling, we fear this, this vision that has come to us in our day-sleep." Ursula was trying not at all successfully to hide the terror in her tone. The Queen was saturating Rhys with her fear through the cell phone and through their distant psychic link.
Rhys frowned.  "Your visions are not soothing, my Lady?" He asked, swinging his legs off of the furs and allowing his eyes to adjust to the pitch black of the bedroom.
The long distance feminine voice quaked. Ursula didn't quake, not ever! "No, my darling. All that we are in this morsel of time edges so near to immortal ruination. We plead for thee to leap into the darkness of the abyss, yet again."
Rhys spoke the only words that his vampire warrior soul permitted. "Ursula, my Mistress, I am ever your champion."
Ursula sighed, as if she could ever doubt his bravery, his devotion to her.  "Thou shall ever be my warrior, my hero, my lovely Rhys."

That was all you get, for now! Just a shy peek. The title you ask? It is under wraps until I get an agent!

In two weeks, I think we'll discuss the difference between the words ROMANCE, EROTIC AND PORN!!! Why this topic? My pack goes to my web page and sees Anne Patricia Roberts Supernatural Erotic Romance Writer and they say their first thought is that I am writing porn. WRONG! Though views on porn vary, my interest lies in a great fast paced title Tsunami of a story. The sex, which is laced throughout the story, is meant to enhance. More to come on this...and soon another shy peek at the story!!!

WBCT(Warmest Blood curdling Thanks) Anne
Oh! Quit giving me crap about my punctuation! I proofread, but I will always hold that I am a story teller, not a talented editor, so get over it and read for the content!!!

Chapter One: The First Blog! Anne opens up to you...

Anne Patricia Roberts — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:06:00 GMT

visit me at my web site www.annepatriciaroberts.com

Hey all you Rock Stars, Fabulous People & Curious Georgette's,

To the first, love your last single!

Second, you are too sexy for yourselves!

Lastly, thanks for sailing along with me on my maiden voyage!

A quick shout out to my book illustrator, Jane Berends. Have you ever met someone of such extraordinary talent and matching humility that you wonder how they aren't famous? This person, for me, is Jane Berends. I tell her what I want her to draw for the chapter heading illustrations, and literally, in less than a fracking half hour, the renderings are better than I could have imagined! I am thunderstruck! Check out the navigation bar about Jane Berends, located on my home page, for a sample of four of Jane Berends original graphic illustrations and her mini-bio. These pen and ink's and many more of her amazing hand drawn masterpieces were commissioned by me to illustrate each chapter lead page of my novel. Surely, the fates have rained good fortune upon both of us!

Seriously, how do you write a book? Here are the first inklings of exactly how I did it, with more to come on my monthly updates at this site. Keep in mind, that I have completed my first novel in the genre of Supernatural, Erotic Romance, but will share with you my efforts up to this point and through to my first book deal! With detailed, fresh new Blogger updates every month! Starting a month from now, you will be privy to snippets of my unpublished novel!

First topic of discussion, subject matter. Was it Mark Twain who said, "write what you know"? I write what I have been dreaming about for most of my life. Twenty years ago, I started writing notes about my vivid and evocative dreams. I have always, as long as I can recall, dreamt of vampires and loss of control. Both elements always present.

Throughout my childhood and equally into adulthood, my imaginative and terrible dreams have scared the ever loving poop out of me, at least weekly. Why? Did I suffer from some unfortunate or desperate lifetime trauma or misfortune? No, not even close. I am, and always have been, so middle class and WASPie it's pathetic!

However, on many nocturnal occasions, I woke up at night crying and frozen in place in bed, too terrified to move or even go to the bathroom and pee! Sometimes, I would sit straight up in some soporific haze, suffering from a combination of sleep walking meets Tourette's Syndrome, and straight faced, cuss out my poor and very understanding husband and never remember a thing! Creepy, huh? Aside from acting like a possessed sailor on shore leave, after a week long binger, in an opium den, run by free hookers; I am confident that my aberrant, unconscious behavior would make excellent fodder for a case study in stress mismanagement. Maybe I have Mommy issues or some such! Who knows!

But, I do digress! As the result of said dreams, harassing my peaceful sleep for nearly the entirety of my life, and yes, even since before puberty, I started writing poems and short stories about vampires, werewolves and other horror genres. An example is, the poem about the Night Train which seeks out and visits terrible justice on one who abused an innocent. Some of my old writing contains great material, but the writing is so bad, I don't even like to read it. But, practice makes perf-, well, good enough to seek out an agent anyway! If you can't tell by now, I ain't no editor! I am what they call an idea gal, a story teller, and I am full of them!

Why would any sane person write about monsters and blood thirsty, justice reaping Amtrak? The best I can defend my choice of subject matter is, that I grew up! Consequently, the paranormal, sexual and erotic content of my completed novel, and my other unpublished works, are directly causative of hormones and my love of what men and women can create together in a healthy mutually consensual way. I make no judgments, and believe me when I say, I am liberal in this touchy area of literature. But even the most extreme sex must be consensual to all adult humans and vampires involved! Otherwise, in my book, in my life, I do not call it sex!

Conversely, I get totally pissed off when I read a book whose author is afraid to 'go there'. What are they, all virgins? I think not. Hey, most assuredly, I am no sex-pert. Equally, I have no fear of details nor of being censured by those who would live in fear of talking about the very things, which they themselves have done with such enthusiasm, that in the telling, would make their Gynecologist blush. It's the whole glass houses principal!

That said, I suppose my writing is very much influenced by a perceived lack of control! I am a woman who really has always detested the main difference between our sexes, that being the physical strength variance between men and women. Going through life knowing that you are less imposing, than probably more than half of the humans on the planet, bugs me to no end. Am I a control freak? Yes! Do I seek the upper hand in nearly all situations? When I can, hell yes! Was completing my book empowering? Honey, I can't even tell you the Herculean emotions that you will experience if you ever write your own material! So, hell yes! Moral to that story being...pick your battles. I knew, by the time I had typed the first ten pages of my novel, I was going to complete my first book. I didn't know how it was going to end, but I believed in myself and my latent abilities. Shoot for the Moon! Hey, you might just bump your head on it!

Next issue for discussion, content. In the mid-nineties, I began to experience many variations of my nightmares and ultimately, I experienced a sort of evolution of my horrific dreams. The dreams started the same old, same old way as ever. Anne gets attacked by a bad vampire, and/or one or more make me their liquid buffet. The factor of change which developed was that, after being bled dry and dying, I would come back into consciousness, awaken and find myself turned into a vampire. Then, the same dream would repeat only then, after my turning, I evolved into flying or joined up with the vamp. posse. I recall never ever behaving like a blood thirsty demon of the night, but I went along and pretended to participate in their evil deeds. What else are you supposed to do when you are forced to be part of, little better than, a gang member of immortal terrorists? So, I began to dream up little controlled scenarios that were not quite as terrifying. I repeated those dreams so often that I had to write them down. Hence my book content?

How do you reach into your own twisted subconscious and dreams and yank out a novel? Sorry, I haven't a clue and frankly, my life long nightmares have hardly been worth it! So, write what you know instead. If you love kids or sailing or computers, then do a little research on line about what other people are writing about in that genre. Then come up with a subtopic that is all new and unique! These poor agents and publishers scream all over their websites and blogs about how, if they have to read one more query letter about a used-to-death topic, they are going out the 17th floor window. Save an agent...be original!!!

So yeah, this is the world's longest blog. Sorry, it comes very naturally and that beckons my next and final point. Write what you love! If you love Scifi/Fantasy, then think about it and create your own realm, like I did. But start writing today! As you read back on your awful first thoughts from a year or years ago, they will grow and become beautiful things. Write every day, until you have fifty or a hundred God-forsaken pages of crap and then read and reread, revise, revisit and regurgitate it, until you are sick of it, and then write more about it. We humans are geometric learners at the apex of the animal kingdom! You can do it and don't ever, ever let anyone stop you from pursuing your dream!

My ultimate dream? To write Supernatural Erotic Romance novels and be unencumbered by having to worry about getting a damned book deal! Meanwhile, this blog, my web page, my soon to be E-mailed query letter, procuring a reliable and interested agent, getting a book deal, making money and the plethora of other business requirements involved in this process, will have to take precedence. Unfortunately, at this time, my business is topping the writing of my currently untitled and outlined Supernatural Erotic Romance sequel to this first completed novel. Frustrating to my creative impulses, but this is a business and I above all, am a highly motivated business woman.

Thanks for tuning in! Thank you for your interest. Stick with me during this adventure. I shall be blogging again in a month. Jane Berends Email is almost ready for you to chat with her, a real live American Graphic Illustrator and a really amazing woman, unto herself!

Please be patient with me. I answer all inquiries myself, slowly but surely.

Most sincerely and graciously,

WBCT(Warmest Blood Curdling Thanks)

Anne Patricia Roberts