JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
If you’re a reader, and over a certain age (like 35,) and if you started reading before the advent of Kindle and ebooks, chances are the first book you read, other than a school text book, was borrowed from a school library or the local lending library nearest your home. Continue reading “Do You Remember Your First Library Book?”
I’m done. Finished. I typed The End on my manuscript earlier this week. Right on cue. I met the deadline I set for myself a few months ago when I emailed Julie, my British bestie, to ask if she was planning to visit me so we could make or annual pilgrimage to the US Open (tennis) together?
She replied that she was going to visit her son and family in Manhattan and wanted to visit me , but didn’t want to interrupt my writing since I seemed to be so close to finishing my thriller. I emailed back and said, don’t worry about my writing. I don’t have a deadline. My writing will be there, waiting for me after you’ve visited. Continue reading “I Set A Deadline To Finish My Novel: It Worked”
You don’t have to be an author on deadline to want meals you can get on the table in super fast time. Other busy people appreciate the idea of fast food, too. But I’m not talking about the sort of meals you get in a drive-through in a brown paper bag. I’m talking about delicious farm fresh produce that you can eat almost off the farm stand. Continue reading “Best Fast Food For Busy Authors”
Hot on the heels of my blog showing the colors which are exploding in my back yard, I received my tickets for the much-anticipated 2018 House and Garden Tour organized by the Westhampton Garden Club.
That’s Westhampton, as in the Hamptons, Long Island. And, the gardens (and pools, below) belong to my much richer neighbors. Please let me know which garden you’d like to relax in. I will NOT be able to arrange a visit to your favorite anytime soon, but I’ll know if your taste is anything like mine. Continue reading “Gardens Of The Rich — & Richer”
If you think I am posting the photos below because it’s too hot to write an entire blog, or because I’m deep into my edits and revisions, and coming into the home stretch with Book 3, you’d be partly right on both counts. But it’s also because I want to share the explosion of color that’s suddenly on display everywhere I look outside my windows. Summer was a long time coming this year, but it’s finally arrived. And how! Continue reading “Finally Summer’s Here”