P.C. ZICK

April 11, 2020

THE WORLD OF COVID-19

I decided to get out of the house yesterday, so I drove to the nearby Wacissa River boat ramp where we often put in our kayaks. It’s an isolated park, so I brought a lawn chair and a book. A mile from the ramp, a flashing sign informed me the river access was closed. A…

March 19, 2020

ARE WE OVERREACTING?

I decided earlier this week that overreacting is preferred to under-reacting in this uncertain time of the COVID-19 virus. Perhaps it has to do with the events of this past winter. It hasn’t been an easy one, starting with the death of my older brother in December. Then my husband spent the past three months…

March 14, 2020

How it feels to be immunocompromised in the age of COVID-19

I want the word to get out about the attitudes of some folks right now. Sure, you say, “I’m healthy, strong, not high risk.” However, you can still carry the virus, some are even asymptomatic, and you can pass it along to someone with a compromised system and/or an older person. My husband is 70…

March 4, 2020

Take That, AP Style! Court of Law Rules the Oxford Comma Necessary

Happy National Grammar Day! Here’s a post from The Write Life on the Oxford comma debate. I adhere to this rule in my own writing and in the writings of those I edit. The reasons for using it are explained below. This settles the Oxford comma debate! Except…it goes against AP style. Here’s an overview…

March 2, 2020

When the Novel Was Dangerous | CrimeReads

Exactly! This piece came to me from a fellow writer, and it’s confirmation for major activities in my life: writing and reading. On the evening of Wednesday February 17, 1762, Kitty Hunter, aged 22, was introduced to Henry Herbert at a society ball at the house of Lord Middleton in London. Herbert was the 10th…

February 18, 2020

HBS Author’s Spotlight: Great Winter Reads 2020 from HBS Author’s Spotlight Bookshelf

Source: HBS Author’s Spotlight: Great Winter Reads 2020 from HBS Author’s Spotlight Bookshelf

December 24, 2019

WISHING YOU LIGHT AND LOVE

Wishing you all a lovely season of beauty, love, and peace. I am grateful to all as we head into the second decade of the millennium. Love, P.C.

November 19, 2019

AND ANOTHER ONE. . .

How many times in the past two months have I said, I just can’t do it? Plenty–but those moments of doubt lasted brief seconds, and I’d go right back at it. And today the sixth book in the Rivals in Love sweet contemporary romance series, Love on Stage, releases. To me, the novel’s publication translates…

November 12, 2019

A LITTLE HOLIDAY CHEER FOR YOU

DOWNLOAD FOR FREE – NOVEMBER 12-16 A Merry Mountain Christmas Links: Kindle, paperback Blush level: So very sweet it will bring cavities! “Now, this is what an adult Christmas story should be. It showed all the challenges that one has to face when you have become widowed such as how to take back your life, how to…

November 10, 2019

Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore – Sunday Interview and New Book on the Shelves – Love on Course by P.C. Zick

Sunday Interview over at Sally’s Cafe and Bookstore. Much thanks to Sally Cronin!