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10. I’ll be phasing out this WordPress site.

9. You will continue to receive my essays about Writing, Wandering and Wondering. It’s easy, click here.

8. Subscribers will have free access to THE ART COLONY, my first novel, about a young artist who is struggling to make her way in 1970s Galveston where it is not all Peace, Love and Rock and Roll.

7. Where you will meet Mandy and her dog Fortune who follows her everywhere, including a night on the streets after a lost job leads to eviction.

6. And ride the roller coaster of Mandy’s life – soaring to the heights when she is selected for an experimental Art Colony and plunging to the depths of eking out a subsistent life while living in close quarters with unfriendly, even hostile, colony mates. 

5. You might be drawn into Mandy’s crush on Grant, the photographer who has her fantasizing when she is not painting or surviving on garbage soup.

4. And maybe wonder and worry about a hidden room in which Mandy becomes trapped while helping the zoned out young poet Nevin. 

3. Or slap your forehead when each bad decision plunges Mandy into deeper despair.

2. While laughing at Mandy’s sharp wit, cheering at her determination and crying when Fortune is in peril.

Drumroll please ~ THE NUMBER ONE REASON to subscribe to my Substack site is:

1. You will receive chapters of my first novel THE ART COLONY in your inbox or on the Substack app when you subscribe at no cost to you at confessionsofacreative.substack.com here.