Hi Everyone!I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day! I went to brunch with my family and my grandparents. We all consumed way too much food and enjoyed a chocolate fountain. Life is good! I had so much fun with the story this week. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! 🙂 The topic this week was Welcome to my Work week. My day job is selling cordless window shades to mental institutions and colleges. Not very exciting to write about. So… Read More
Posts by Lisa Kessler
Best-Selling Life — New Short Fiction!
Hi everyone – Thanks SO much for stopping by my anniversary blog last week! It was great to hear from so many of you again! This week’s story was inspired by having breakfast with my Grandparents on Saturday morning. My Grandfather has been a family historian for years, collecting family tree information going back generations! He’s 87 now and wants to pass on some of his knowledge to all of us, and as I sat there learning about my great-grandfather’s father, I realized how even the most simple lives help… Read More
Illumine Me – 52 Weeks of Stories!!! :)
Hi Everyone! Thank you SO much for stopping by my blog!!! This blog marks 52 weeks of stories for me!!! I started on this journey last year when I was sick of trying to get published. My spirit was broken and I couldn’t sit still and write. At times I thought I may have forgotten how. A few years ago, I was on the board for Word|San Diego magazine. We did an interview with Ray Bradbury before he came down to San Diego for a writing seminar. When he came to… Read More
Little White Lie — New Short Fiction
Hi Everyone – I had a crazy week, but I did get the revised version of Night Walker to the one agent and then a different agent requested the full manuscript of the original version! LOL I’m hoping if enough people read it one will be the perfect home… *crossing fingers* This week’s story started off with a very simple concept… A Little White Lie. Then I found the Oliver Wendell Holmes quote and it all fell together. I couldn’t work in the Men are from Mars and Women are from… Read More
Til Death Do We Part — New Flash Fiction
Happy Easter to those who celebrate! I hope you had a great weekend! I spent the entire weekend buried in edits on Night Walker. It’s been a crazy week, but I think I’m very close to having an agent who thinks she can sell Night Walker! Woot! I had to rework the beginning which ended up changing other things along the way, but I’m almost finished… Shew! Huge thanks to Ken for proofreading for me all weekend! *HUGS* So with all the revising, I barely had time… Read More
Going Home — New Short Fiction!
Hi All – I have all sorts of news to share with you this week! First off, my friend Ray Garton has a brand new werewolf book out called, Bestial, and when you get your copy you can find my name on the Acknowledgments page! *boggle* I was lucky enough to read an advance digital copy of the book and it’s a wild read! Ray is a gifted writer, and I’m honored he thought to add my name to his latest book! Check out Bestial here… Bestial Next up I… Read More
Endless Night — New Short Fiction
Hi All – Thanks for all the comments last week! I broke 20,000 blog views and we’re nearing 4,500 comments!!! *boggle* Thank you SO much for reading and commenting! All of your support and encouragement means so much to me on this long hard road to getting my novels published… On that front, I’ll be querying more agents this week. I got another pass (nice way to say rejection) from another agent last week. *sigh* I also got the results from my first contest entry. Night Walker scored… Read More
Private Party — New Short Fiction
Hi Everyone – I hope you had a great week! I keep forgetting to mention that I’m on Twitter now! So if you’re on Twitter, please look me up! http://twitter.com/LdyDisney I’d love to hear from you there too! It’s a fun way to visit quickly and keep in touch. 🙂 On to the story! I was crazy busy this weekend, so I was afraid I wouldn’t get this story up in time! Yikes! I haven’t been to New Orleans in about 8 years, but it’s such an incredible… Read More
The Great Escape — New Short Fiction! :)
Hi All – Thanks for the great comments last week on The Closer! I’m so glad you enjoyed the story! This week’s challenge was tough! I decided to revist an older tale that had a cliffhanger ending. If you never read Details, you can check it out here… Details This is the ongoing story of Sterling who gets visions of the future… I did immortalize a few of my Blogophilia buddies in this one, but I hope they won’t mind! 🙂 Have a great week everyone!Lisa 🙂~~~~~~~~~~~The Great Escape –… Read More
The Closer — New Short Fiction!
Hi All – I heard back from another agent this week who read the synopsis for Night Walker and asked to see some of the chapters, so that’s another good step and I’m tenuously holding out hope! (It’s so hard to let my hopes get up only to get another rejection. Ugh!) In the meantime, I got another 2,000 words written on Moonlight and finished up a new story to share with you too. Shew! 🙂 This week’s topic involved the Peter Principal, that workers are often promoted… Read More