by Tammy Ditmore | May 28, 2025 | Editing, Publishing
One of the most rewarding moments as an editor is receiving a copy of a finished book from an author I worked with months ago. And it’s a special treat when the book is as enjoyable as Melissa Carter’s Facing Inward. If I told you a book that this is a...
by Tammy Ditmore | Jan 17, 2025 | Events, personal reflections
Over the past ten days, horribly destructive fires in Southern California have been in all the headlines, and friends and family from around the country have contacted me, wanting to know if we are okay. Many of them have only a rudimentary idea of where we live or...
by Tammy Ditmore | Dec 16, 2022 | personal reflections
Eleven years with a gem of a dog still doesn’t feel long enough.
by Tammy Ditmore | Jun 1, 2022 | personal reflections
I don’t think there are many people outside my family who made a bigger impact on my life than Charlie Marler, who passed away last week in Abilene, Texas. Decades after my last journalism class with him, I hear his voice in my ear when I write, and sometimes I...
by Tammy Ditmore | Sep 11, 2021 | Editing, Events, personal reflections
I’ve been watching lots of 9/11 documentaries in the past few weeks, and the images are still searing, even 20 years later. Passenger jetliners plow directly into skyscrapers. Fireballs, plumes of smoke, bloodied pedestrians streaming out of the Twin Towers as...
