Blog Posts for Bett Norris

How it Starts

Bett Norris — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:07:58 -0700

bettnorris | Edit From the foot of Dexter Avenue, looking toward the capitol. Sometimes, it begins with an image in my head, sometimes, it starts with stumbling across an old photo, like this one. I lived in Montgomery for 13 years, and worked in a state building behind the capitol. No one can resist being struck by the juxtaposition of so many interconnected and disparate ...

Update on P Town

Bett Norris — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:14:41 -0700

Only four weeks until Women’s Week in Provincetown. I’m getting excited, folks. It’s going to be fun. Lots of things happening. Great entertainment lined up. And Bywater Books will be there to provide you with chances to meet some of its authors. Bywater has several book signing events scheduled at Womencrafts. They are also hosting a wine and cheese party on ...

Bywater Books/Women's week in P Town

Bett Norris — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:00:05 -0700

Join Bywater Books authors Marianne K. Martin, Z Egloff, Mari SanGiovanni, Bett Norris, Cynn Chadwick, and Marcia Finical for a week of book signings, a wine and cheese party, and a discussion of Herstory/Yourstory with comedian/author Kate Clinton on Saturday, October 17, from 10:30 am till noon, at the Paramount Showroom in the Crown and Anchor.

My Life, and Dead Lizards

Bett Norris — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:47:04 -0700

I stepped on a dead lizard this morning. It was in my living room. Two cats lay suspiciously draped on the furniture, sound asleep, I assume. This is my life now, living with two cats. Recently, my partner, renowned animal lover and wrangler Sandy Moore, disappeared for a few days to spend time with her kids and grandkids, the human ones. Her real kids got very huffy with ...

Family

Bett Norris — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:37:13 -0700

Family MamaPosted at 06:59 AM on May 15, 2007 You know, this past week has been amazing, and in many ways, life altering. I want to tell everything that happened, to leave nothing out, but as I sit here, back at home after the literary conference in New Orleans at which my novel Miss McGhee was launched, I find myself thinking of very personal things.There's a page of acknowledgements in ...

Keeping Up

Bett Norris — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:17:53 -0700

I'm trying to count how many web sites/blogs I have and maintain. It all started with my web site, www.bettnorris.com, which still feels more like home than any other site or blog. Then I learned about MySpace. I created a page there, and posted blogs, usually copying the lates blog from my web site. Along came Facebook, and everyone flocked to it like lemmings, virtually leaving MySpace alone. ...

Women's Week In P-Town

Bett Norris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:20:06 -0700

Here's the Bywater P-Town schedule for Womens's Week. We are looking forward to a great week of promotion and fun, so come join us!Thursday, Oct 152-4pm: Bywater authors signing at Womencrafts Bookstore. Marianne K. Martin, Cynn Chadwick, Mari San Giovanni, Z Egloff, and Marcia Finical, and myself.6-8pm: A Night of Wine and Cheese with Bywater authors at Womencraft Friday, Oct 16 11-1: Master ...

Two Things at Once

Bett Norris — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:36:43 -0700

I'm at an odd place, editing the latest draft of What's Best for Jane, doing research for my next book, as yet untitled. Going back and forth between the two tasks, it seems that one is infusing the other. How did that happen? At first, it would seem logical that this cross pollination would occur, because the research is for an historical novel set in Montgomery during the decades leading up to ...

Miss Mary Leila McLeod, 1917-2009

Bett Norris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:56:58 -0700

Miss McLeod was a formidable woman whose family was very prominent and respected, who owned what was once the largest house in town, right next to the post office. The house, a huge, two-story Victorian, and the lot take up most of a city block. Miss McLeod lived at home with her parents all her life, and never married. I have no idea of her personal life. There were never any rumors ...

Montgomery

Bett Norris — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:50:50 -0700

This photo is looking east, up Dexter Avenue from Commerce, in 1906 Montgomery, toward the state capitol. The Dexter Avenue Baptist Church is on the right, at the top of Dexter, not seen in the picture here. Is it my imagination or is that lamp post to the right of the fountain leaning? You can see the electric streetcars. There seem to be a lot of people downtown, so I would guess that this is a ...