As I look out on my new neighborhood in Apache Junction, Arizona, I’m grateful for all that I have and enjoy! A beautiful view of the mountains and desert sunrises and sunsets […]
Musings on life 10/25/2024
On this beautiful October day in Mesa, Arizona, I’ve decided that there are primary focuses in my life. Writing my short stories, ghostwriting two books, editing other books and making certain my […]
HillHelen Publishers Zoom talk: What we do for authors 10/8/2020
What can HHG do for you, a writer with a new book manuscript? We can help! Find out how in this video.
Our authors: Busy speaking, signing books throughout 2019
Stool pigeons at the courthouse: ‘Shake a Tale Feather’
“So you folks want to remarry after 15 years?” asked the gum-smacking counter clerk with perky blond stiff-sprayed hair of the couple standing before her. “You got your original divorce papers?” I’d […]
Marriage is a dance that takes two; sometimes the gyrations go the other way
Walk into the scene: Thanksgiving buffet at a resort hotel. Two guys sitting next to me. The Danish guy was pithily opining to his younger guy friend. I was about to head […]
My grandmother drove a 1948 Lincoln until Daddy took it away
Grandmother Mabel drove a 1948 Lincoln until the crisis came. She drove through the new red lights in downtown by blowing her horn. “That should be enough for them to get out […]
Did he really say that? Yeah, he really did
Once upon a time not so long ago, unfortunately, I heard an elected official say, “We need to move out everybody over 55 to make room for the young people.” Yes, he […]
Seeking a guy with a pet rat on a leash?
When you’re in a hurry at an I-55 rest stop in Mississippi, nothing gets in your way. But I closed my car door a little more slowly as I watched a […]
Intriguing sci-fi: When an author creates a great premise and fulfills it in his book
I have this great author I know well — my spouse and partner in life, Jesse Hillman. Back when we dated 27 years ago, he shared his sci-fi romance novella with me […]
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