While snow-birding in Florida, I’ve scheduled my Author Talk at local retirement communities. Those planned events came to a screaming halt earlier this week when the governor issued suggested restrictions to tamp down the spread of this nasty little virus.
Because our elderly citizens are the most susceptible to this years flu bug, the local administrators are following the safety guidelines and cancelling outside vendors, such as authors like myself.
All we can do is stay clear of each other and avoid crowds at indoor venues. Not to mention wash our hands, wash our hands, and WASH OUR HANDS!
The silver lining of this outbreak is that I can devote the hours of self-isolation to work on my latest WIP… the 4th story in my Gwen Andrews mystery series titled ‘Wedding Interrupted’. If the plotting and writing moves along at a good clip, I have a chance at publishing this summer.
Stay well, everyone!
After two years of sharing my writing journey with audiences in New England, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Florida, I received a return invitation from the friends group of my local senior center to speak to them again about the current status of my writing life.
For the past two years, I’ve been presenting my Author Talk centered around how I learned to write a mystery. I was thrilled recently to receive an invitation from the Friends group for my local senior center to speak to them again this April with an update on my writing career and my work in progress.
for your GPS: 10900 Walsingham Road, Largo, FL.
Because my first two published mysteries are set in a fictitious Massachusetts town, I’ve had no resistance from New England library directors or senior complex program organizers to schedule my Author Talk about the writing process. I’ve even had success in Pennsylvania and Delaware because I have siblings living in both states.
Debi Graham-Leard 