“Ask and you shall receive.”  That’s only part of the story for me.  so many times I’m just […]

Some weeks I have a bit of trouble with the taking stock part of this weekly post.  This […]

Have you ever read books like Who Moved My Cheese by  Spencer Johnson or Zapp the Lightning of Empowerment by William […]

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I met Clayton Smith at the “Chicago Writes Conference” last September.  He read from his then soon-to-be-released novel, […]

VikkiC“The naked happy dance is more effective than medication for most of what ails us!” according to Vikki Claflin. [tweetthis]Humor is so much a part of who Vikki is that it radiates out of her being and leaks out her fingertips onto the page. [/tweetthis]Why, her name even sounds like laughter.

I got a chance to sit down and chat with Vikki last week, and I’m still giggling. I want to know more about how she wrote her book Shake Rattle & Roll With It.

Vikki has an eye for detail that, surely, she got at birth, if not that,