In celebration of the new year and the end of another, writing as Stephanie Browning with longtime friend (and former college room mate) Susan Brown, it’s time to repeat our list-everlasting…

And announce the spring publication of our next Stephanie Browning Romance…

Making Up Is Hard To Do!

 

We have a running joke, Susan and I, that sees us sharing digs once again, only this time, instead of beer and cigarettes (that was me, I’m afraid, guilty on both counts), it’ll be tea and cookies and incontinent supplies. And maybe a bottle of scotch. Our biggest concern is that we won’t remember where we stashed it!

However, in the meantime, (we figure we’re good to go for at least another twenty or thirty years) here’s our list-everlasting of New Year’s resolutions!

  1. Make money, lots of money…preferably by writing books that generate enough of an income for us to travel and retire in style.
  2. Write books that people want to read.
  3. But first, write the books that we want to write, not the ones we think we should.
  4. Pat ourselves on the back (as we are wont to do!) for everything we have done; whether we make the money we’d like to have or not!
  5. Revel in the writing process ‘cause there’s nothing finer than a well-chosen word or a well-writ phrase.
  6. Celebrate in style when we do succeed.
  7. Which means finding that perfect dress, one which hides life’s bumps and bruises and show us to be the grand dames we have become…of course, if we stick to the script, that would be red for Susan, black for me.
  8. Take a nostalgia tour of all our old haunts and be able to eat and drink like we did in the old days without fear of not fitting into the aforementioned perfect dresses.
  9. Be thrilled with our accomplishments when it is time to put down our pens even though we said, way back in ’92, that if we never did anything else, we would be happy anyway.
  10. Remember each and every moment so we can relive them in conversation, laugh merrily at our own foibles and toast our successes.

Over and over again….

To read an excerpt from Making Up Is Hard To Do, click here!