This and That...by Lonnie Cruse

Hello all,

I'm celebrating finishing my current WIP last night, well, actually around 1 AM this morning. Not a lot of sleep, so I'm not my usually alert self. But color me perky! (I hate that word.) I have a few words to tweak yet, because I had to look up the proper spelling/usage online for several words, like Betty Grable and grille verses grill. Not to mention porta potty and if anyone can steer me straight on Fifty-Seven/fifty-seven/Fifty Seven/fifty seven (as in the year we all know and love?) I'd be obliged. Oblidged? Thankful, how's that? This is the second book in my '57 series, and I'm hoping Five Star will want to publish it.

To celebrate finishing, I took my Rewards certificate from Best Buy and bought more Charlie Chan movies today. Ahhhh. Anybody else a Chan fan?

I've been taking some online classes from the Mary Buckham courses and Earthly Charms and the lessons have really helped me work my way through the saggy baggy middle of the recent manuscript. Now to begin anew. I hate middling my way through a manuscript. Wondering if I can get from "here" to "there" and make it all connect.

My first book in the '57 series, FIFTY-SEVEN HEAVEN, is due out from Five Star in December. I have an ISBN, but no cover yet. I can't wait to see what they come up with. Now, to locate a poodle skirt . . . one that actually fits. Sigh.