Never having done this before, I don’t know what to expect. I’m so happy I didn’t organize a release party because as of right now, 8:22 am, Getting to Grace is only showing up on Amazon as a Kindle version with no picture and on Barnes & Noble not-at-all. I would be frustrated if I…
Author: Lee Barber
Getting To Grace
The release date for my first novel, Getting to Grace, is December 4, 2020. Stay tuned for more details.
Today
Today is my Birthday Eve. All birthdays should be celebrated for at least a week. Being born and surviving long enough to be able to generate your own celebration is a triumph. I celebrate you and your presence in the world. I celebrate the opportunity for me to be here and celebrate with you. The…
Expressive Arts, Where’s My Novel?, and Hope for the Future (which starts now)
The impact of expressive arts is profound. I am doing morning pages as suggested by Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way, and following the direction of my Expressive Arts mentor, Rachel Weaver. After “going wild” on the the theme of sisters, as instructed by Rachel, I found deep wells of inner pain related to chaos and…
How Long?
People ask me, “How long did it take to write your novel?” I answer, “Over twenty years, and it’s not done yet.” I drafted my novel in the summer of 1998. I read Oscar Collier’s How to Write and Sell Your First Novel, took his advice, and set a writing goal. I decided to write…
Belonging
October 14, 2019 A local library branch celebrated Indie Author Day with a gathering of authors. Did I belong? I have a contract, not a published book. Does my contract with an independent publisher make me an Indie author? Where do I fit in? Greeted at the door by the library Program Manager, my hesitation…
Slow start; Moving now
So this happened… I signed a contract last week with Touchpoint Press to publish Getting to Grace, a novel I drafted in 1998 that has seen several revisions. I don’t know when it will be available, or what it will be titled, or how much editing/rewriting will happen, BUT I do know that I am…
Point of View
My writing partner is Bomani. I will refer to him often. Bomani and I challenged each other to tell a story from each of four points of view. I wrote: I received word from my agent that publishers are interested. My first response was tears, so I let myself cry full out for twenty-seconds and…
The Great 1970 Kissing Debate
by Velma Lee Barber The brown-haired boy waited for her under the towering oak that grew in front of the fifty-two-year-old, three story, brick school. She walked toward him, hugging her books to her breasts, shocked for a moment by the wind’s bite. He pulled his hands out of his pockets and gestured down the…
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