A Look Back

Like many people, I'm feeling very nostalgic as we approach the end of 2007. This has been a very good, highly productive, year for me.

Bear with me as I celebrate a few of this year's personal and career highlights:

• presented my first online workshop
  
• wrote and completed Writing with Magic (for Muggles) as a nonfiction writer's guide
  
• enjoyed a fabulous conference, as well as my first Cajun crawfish bowl, as I presented two workshops at Nicholl's State University Jubilee Jambalaya Writer's Conference
  
• celebrated the release of "Grandma's Cupboards" in On Grandma's Porch from BelleBooks
  
• published two editorials, One Last Memory as a feature editorial, and Egyptian Myths in Harry Potter as a three-part series, on Mugglenet.com
  
• along with other authors from The Plot Thickens, was a featured Harry Potter expert on the Barnes and Noble book club boards for the months of June and July
  
• presented two workshops at Sectus, an unofficial Harry Potter conference, in London, during the time of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  
• enjoyed a two-week trip to Turkey with my family to travel and visit family there
  
• wrote and completed my first young adult novel -- Southern Fried Wiccan
  
• finaled in three contests with Southern Fried Wiccan and An Illegal Affair
  
• watched my children grow another year older and infinitely more beloved