Well, I do seem to post one blog entry a year, on average, to coincide with the birth of a new script.  However, last year, I only wrote 38 pp of the new script - since real life was problematic.

This April, that script was finally finished (born) in time, yet again, for the Nicholl competition.

Welcome to the World, THROUGH THE GLASS DARKLY.  A long pregnancy, and hopefully, worth the wait.

And now, since I do seem to only have one spec script a year "waiting to be born", I am entertaining the idea of writing a novel or two every year, in between.

What do you think, Universe (or any (?)  reading this).  Does the world need another female detective novel series.  I think "Yes!", but only if it is original, compelling, fun, entertaining, and something I can write.

My major research at the moment is watching oodles and oodles of PBS Masterpiece Mysteries (fun research, I must say : >)  )  One of my guiltiest pleasures is watching the short lived (2 years?) series Rosemary and Thyme, about two fifty something British lady gardeners, who always seem to stumble upon a murder or two when on their latest gardening assignment.  Being a recalcitrant gardener myself (I need to replace all my finally deceased potted perenials) - I have a lot of fun watching them solve crimes, while digging in the dirt (metaphorically, and for real).

So, back to my roots (ha!), given that before I wrote screenplays, I wrote 2.5 unpublished novels (one of which "Came within a hair's breadth of being accepted" by Atlanta's Peachtree Press in 1995,  according to the the letter I received from them on my birthday).  That was the inciting incident for my foray into screenplay writing - the 780 pp novel in question, became my first script.

Anyway - novel writing - back to long distance "running", writer style.