THREE MONTHS of MARCH MADNESS!

These last few months have been moving like a freight train.  I am an award winning writer who doesn't like to be put in a box, so I write romantic suspense novels, cozy mystery novels, plays (both comedy and drama) and anything else I feel like writing, and I'm blessed to have been successful at it.  Oh, I don't mean famous successful, but able to make money successful, and I am grateful for this talent that has brought me so much joy.

In January I went to St. Petersburg Florida after having won the 2019 American Stage Theatre New Play Festival competition with my latest two act play The Diary of Annie Mae Franklin.  There were 544 entrants.  The trip included a stipend, three days of hotel accommodations, and a staged reading of my play.  It was awesome!  The play was well received by the standing room only audience and I had so much fun. 

In February, I worked on, and finalized, a new cover for the re-release of one of my most successful romance suspense novels, Singing a Song. I've been re-editing that novel for weeks.  Look for the re-release of that novel soon.

New Singing a Song Book Cover

Then this month, I traveled to Detroit, Michigan, with my writing partner, Lillie Barnett Evans.  She and I write the hilarious Grandmothers, Incorporated cozy mystery series together.  Go to our website:  www.grandmothersinc.com to find out more about that. The book covers are featured below.  Years ago, we wrote a play with the same title that placed the characters from our book series on stage.  In 2010 the play appeared Off Broadway to full houses and enjoyed an extension.  We've been marketing the play ever since to theatre groups.  In March, The Theatre Arts Club in Detroit produced the play. Lillie and I traveled there to see it.  The ladies in the theatrical group were most gracious and we thoroughly enjoyed the trip.

Lillie (l) and Crystal (r) with Theatre Arts Club play producer, Lisa (m) 

Yes, the past three months have been busy ones, and I love every minute of it.  Oh, and next month one of my other plays will enjoy a production in the Midwest.  I love the writing life!!!