by DianneSalerni | Apr 29, 2011 | First Impressions
Well, here. Let me show you …Okay, that’s the last of the vacation pictures! I promise!Next week I am excited to present 3 new First Impressions posts — short critiques of first pages submitted by my blog readers. Please stop back to check them out....
by DianneSalerni | Apr 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
“The first thing we need you to do is take a large, confident step off the platform.”Say what?I was sitting there in my helmet and harness last Thursday, holding my clip, wondering if I’d lost my mind. I was too old to be flying through the air, hanging from a cable...
by DianneSalerni | Apr 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’m scheduling this post in advance, but I don’t need psychic powers to know that going back to work is a real let-down today after my family’s vacation in California. I could use another week’s worth of vacation to get over the first week!I’ll be blogging about some...
by DianneSalerni | Apr 22, 2011 | caged graves, history, Pennsylvania
Before beginning my manuscript The Caged Graves last summer, I researched the history of Pennsylvania’s mountainous Columbia County in the 1860’s. But my plotline incorporated a lost Revolutionary War treasure, so I also researched events of the 1770’s, when this...
by DianneSalerni | Apr 20, 2011 | history, Pennsylvania graves, ticking tomb
Anthony Wayne might have had the weirdest burial(s) in Pennsylvania, but there’s another strange grave in southern Chester County, PA, about 10 minutes from my house.In the cemetery adjoining the London Tract Meeting House in Landenberg, there’s a marker for a grave...