Space Coast STAR

Good Morning!

Fall has arrived.Of course, I live in FL so the weather is still pretty warm. Well, hot.

Yesterday I attended to Space Coast Star Super Saturday with five of my Volusia County Romance Writer friends. It was a great mini-conference.

Speakers were Agent Michelle Grajkowski and Author and Editor Anna DeStefano. What was great about this conference is that we not only had a chance to pitch our stories, but we had the chance to chat and ask about what's new with the writing industry. Both Michelle and Anna are very approachable and fun to be around.

Anna suggested since I write stories for the confession magazines that I start posting short stories here for people to read. I think that's a good idea and hope you will suggest my blog to others.

I pitched The Obitch Queen novel to Michelle. Let me tell you a little bit about how I came up with the idea. I once worked at a small newspaper in Ohio. One of my jobs was to take calls from the morticians and write up the obituaries. 

Really, I thought these guys would be very serious. They weren't. And since they said most of the people at the papers hated talking with them, they'd tell me things of interest. One of the guys sometimes would make up stories while giving me the obit and I would end up laughing. I mean, how could I not envision two men carrying a gurney with a large person on it down several flights of steps and slipping and dropping the person? Or what about on the count of ten when the guys were to bend on a knee and close the coffin only to have their tie get caught and nearly go down with it?

The younger folks I worked with referred to me at the Obitch Queen, and soon the morticians were calling me that. That is how I came up with the story. 

Ellagrace Gosdin's contented life changes overnight when her husband dies in the arms of the owner of an escort service. Destitute, homeless and the talk of the town, she moves on to accept a job at the local paper. She uncovers town secrets of illegal activities  of her husband and some of his friends. Scandals. Bribes. Murder. Tagging along with her new love interest, Gary Thompson, her new exciting mission in life begins.

The Obitch Queen is a humorous Southern Woman's Fiction.

Have a wonderful day!