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Livin’ La DIVA Loca

25 June 2014

When we last left our hero and heroine (also known as Drew and me), they were leaving Memphis, TN and headed down 78 Highway to Holly Springs, MS. If you’ve never heard of Holly Springs, you obviously haven’t heard one of the Dixie Diva Mysteries audiobooks that were written by Virginia Brown and narrated by […]Read More
Hangin’ with Harley Davidson

16 June 2014

Has a character in a book ever inspired you to visit a place? After narrating 2 series of books written by Virginia Brown, I decided it was time to visit the 2 cities she described with such love and detail:  Memphis, TN and Holly Springs, MS. Of course, my main goal for the trip was […]Read More
Winter 2014 Audiobook Releases

7 May 2014

I’ve got several recent releases to post, so you might want to get a cup of coffee and relax! Earlier this year, I published The Heart of the New Thought by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, one of the leaders in the New Thought movement in the early 20th century. This short book was first published over 100 years […]Read More
Do You Feel Like Giving Up?

16 April 2014

This Date In My History  is an ongoing series of blog posts taken directly from my private journal entries written at least 10 years ago. TDIMH — Friday 16 April 2004 1:20pm Sometimes I just feel like giving up. No, I don’t mean on my life — just on this whole voice-over dream. I allow […]Read More
How I Started My Audiobook Publishing Company

24 January 2014

During the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, I started seeing this wonderful ad from Dell, titled “Beginnings”: Perhaps it caught my attention because I have my own story about the quiet beginnings for a new business: Date: 10/6/06 Time: 10:10am Place: 10634, the cabin number of a cruise ship docked in Mykonos, Greece Becoming an […]Read More
Hogan’s Prescription for Success

20 January 2014

This Date in My History is a series of blog posts taken from my private journal entries from at least 10 years ago. TDIMH — Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:18pm on my sofa When I leave my day job on the day before holidays, vacation, or wonderful Wednesday, I have the lightness of step and […]Read More
Fall 2013 Audiobook Releases

13 January 2014

Kitty Kitty Bang Bang. the third audiobook in Sparkle Abbey’s Pampered Pets series, is now available! If you like fun, cozy mysteries and/or light-hearted stories about pets, you will really enjoy this book! Caro Lamont is a pet therapist in Laguna Beach, CA. Her next-door neighbor Kitty Bardot is the publicist to the stars and […]Read More
2 Tips to Tame Your To-Do List

6 January 2014

Long before the word “smartphone” was coined, I had several iterations of PDAs, and I remember my to-do list application on each one was always ultra important to me. My need to keep track of all my actions and ideas didn’t end there. In looking back through my journals to find entries for my blog […]Read More
Advice to the Love-Shorn Recorded for Going Public Project

27 December 2013

Advice to the Love Shorn, where celebrity characters dish about their relationships! Today’s topic: How a Heroine Can Beat Up Thugs Without Emasculating Her Man Author Melissa F. Miller, who writes the Sasha McCandless Legal Thriller series for which I narrate the audiobooks, recently posted this blurb on Facebook: The always-entertaining Barbara Silkstone invites Sasha, […]Read More
TDIMH — Place Your Order With the Universe

20 November 2013

My continuing series of my past journal entries — This Date in My History   Wednesday 20 Nov., 2002 9:35pm on my sofa in front of the fire   Today’s word is disappointment.   I was disappointed to wake up and realize it’s only Wednesday; the preceding 2 days seemed long enough to be a […]Read More
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