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What's On My Publishing Map

I've recently published:

• “Why Poetry Books Often Aren't Accessible to People with Disabilities”

• “Sunny and Glorious” — You can read the story on my blog or on the StoryFest2020 page of the StoryADay website. From that page, you can also read the stories of other StoryFest participants.

What's On My Traveling Map

Lisa Rutledge's bookshelf: currently-reading

The Vengeance of Mothers

by Jim Fergus

tagged: currently-reading

The Crown: The Official Companion, Volume 1: Elizabeth II, Winston Churchill, and the Making of a Young Queen

by Robert Lacey

tagged: currently-reading

Monarchs of the Northeast Kingdom

by Chera Hammons

tagged: currently-reading

More than ever, my method of travel has been reading. Like you, I've been kept mostly at home by COVID-19. What's cool for me, though, is that home is now Galveston, Texas. I've recruited friends and family to take pictures of my favorite things about my new home. You'll find a slideshow of the pictures below my bookshelf widget. I've captioned each picture. To read each caption, hover your mouse over a picture in the slideshow

And don't worry, when I've been on the beach, no one I don't live with has been anywhere near me.

The View from My Bed and Desk

If Aubrey catches someone taking his picture, he always looks put out — if he will even hold still so the picture can be taken.

Here's Aubrey Looking Less Annoyed

I wish I could say is enjoying the view, but he barks a lot at what he sees out there

A Close-Up View through One of the Windows

A View from the Porch

I have a magnolia, a live oak and red and yellow hibiscus just beyond the porch, which I can see from my bedroom windows.

I Love the Stairs

I can't use them, but I think they're beautiful.

Some of My Favorite Things

My hurricane lantern, my pirate ship, my painting of a sailing ship, and Rose from Titanic moved with me, along with way too much other stuff. My design taste has always been coastal.

A View from the Shallow Water of the Drive-up Beach Less Than Ten Minutes from My House

The Rocker I Got My Dad for Father's Day

The catch – he had to put it together himself