I’m preparing for a major revamp of my author site, and I’m not sure what’s going to happen to this blog as part of that. So I want to invite anyone who hasn’t already followed me to Substack to come on over! I send out monthly updates at https://kathleenbasi.substack.com/. That’s where you’ll find the latest…
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I’m busy, so you get a giveaway!
It’s the 4th of July, and I am in the middle of the confluence of playing for our local professional orchestra’s summer festival, preparing for the big church music conference next week, and trying to do a major novel rewrite in as little time as humanly possible. So why not a road-trip themed giveaway? Check…
Read More$1.99 sale, today only!
A Song For The Road is on sale today only! Amazon made it a Daily Kindle Deal. (And I think you can gift it to others!)
Read MoreThis Party Is Moving
Recently I spent a weekend at a writing intensive on the subject of the business of writing. I spent a lot of time thinking about the many & varied ways I communicate with people and came to the conclusion that I need to streamline. In the past year or two, it’s become clear to me…
Read More#Things That Make You go, “Hmm.”
It’s one of those tropes in literature and TV and movies. At the height of their struggle, Hero does what must be done and then conks out, only to wake up three days later, in their bed at home. With no sign of having had any bodily functions while they were asleep. #thingsthatmakeyouwonder +++It has…
Read MoreLearning To Love Myself
Last week, I finished a major novel revision. The kind of revision that takes 6 months to complete. This is far from the end of the process, but still, it’s a big milestone, and one I’ve been working toward with increasing intensity as the months have passed and it took so.much.longer than I wanted it…
Read MoreThis is not “the best health care in the world”
Strap yourselves in, folks, because today I’m talking health care. I know, this is an author website. But I’m also well aware that any post I write about Julianna and Down syndrome touches some visceral spot in my readership. I accept this without fully understanding it. So let’s talk health care, because as a disability…
Read MoreThe summer of discontent
Originally posted on Intentional Catholic:
Photo by Monstera on Pexels.com At the beginning of this year, I set myself a spiritual goal to focus on contentment.I have not been incredibly successful. Honestly, I didn’t expect to be. Some goals are set knowing they are beyond reach—knowing that the striving toward them brings one closer to…
Giving away an advanced readers’ copy!
Head over to Instagram to enter a giveaway for an advanced readers’ copy of my novel, A SONG FOR THE ROAD!
Read MoreFive on a Friday
Here’s a heads-up for your early January: I’m starting something new! I’m going to start a new series called “Five on a Friday,” in which I’ll interview women’s fiction authors in five questions. Stay tuned–our first goes live on Friday, January 8th, when I’ll welcome Cara Sue Achterberg, whose new release, Blind Turn, releases that…
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Kathleen M. Basi 