News & Events Featuring Author DJ Geribo

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Category: The Latest News

Published: 12 August 2025

So now the book is done, galley copies handed out, feedback received, and changes are being made. We have to make a final run through of the novel and then we can have the copies printed and ready for sale. But there is one more part to this story that I will share and it is a question every author is asked, at least once. Where did the idea for the story come from? 

And yes, every story has a beginning that comes to the author, often, through unexpected ways. Or through a combination of incidents. For this novel, I thought about my own home, where it is located, and how I am up a hill, with another house down front of where my home is. That was the visual I wanted to recreate in the novel. And then I just elaborated on the picture, adding the young couple in the home down front (which there is) and my husband and I in the house up on the hill (not as old as the couple in the novel, but still....), and of course you have to have some chaos thrown in, which I did, more than enough, I think. And then the mystery of it all, what is going on, why are so many things going wrong and who is doing it? Somehow keeping interest until the very end when, hopefully, some of the questions are answered. I do like to keep things a bit open and you can come to your own conclusion. Maybe it will be what I had in mind, maybe not. 

Any more questions, well, I guess you'll just have to read the book! 

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Category: The Latest News

Published: 20 June 2025

For every story there is...well, a story. My latest novel, "Useful Pieces", due out this summer, began in November, 2019. As some of you may know, November is NaNoWriMo month - National Novel Writing Month. I like a challenge so I did it. For the entire month. The goal was to write over 50,000 words in November and at the end, you would have a novel. Certainly a novel that would need editing but at least a novel. Good way to confirm to ourselves that we can complete something in that short of a time. If you calculated it out, you would have to write more than 1000 words a day, or more precisely, 1,667 words a day. And I did it. It felt great to complete a novel in that time. And no, I would not do it again! 

So, you may be wondering, where is it? That was 2019. Why did it take so long to complete, meaning editing it and getting it published? What I did with it was, I put it on the back burner. When I was looking at all the books I've started writing this one jumped out at me. As I make progress on the many books I have started, I also write down the number of words. This novel was far ahead of all the others. So, sometime in late 2023, I dusted off the cobwebs and re-read the entire novel, making changes along the way. One of the reasons I put it aside was I was considering completely changing the ending which would have meant changing the entire story and would involve a lot of changes. Almost like writing an entirely new novel. But when I re-read it, I liked it and decided to go with it. I put the book in my publisher's file for his changes in February 2024, and waited. And waited. Then 2024 was over and it was one year later, February 2025 and the book still had not been edited. Finally, after much harrassing (from me) my publisher and I sat down and we began the editing process in May, 2025. Now we are getting close to the end of the editing with the next step sending for galley copies. After that, with another complete read through, it will be available for purchase. And, of course, a celebration! 

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Category: The Latest News

Published: 07 May 2025

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Published: 01 March 2025

I'm excited to announce my lastest book, "Useful Pieces" coming soon! We are currently in the editing stages and after a complete read-through and edits, we'll be sending it off for a proof copy which we will go through again one final time. This is a long process but I'm expecting the book to be completed sometime this spring. 

"Useful Pieces" will also soon be available for pre-order. Stay tuned for that announcement!

To give my readers a sample of what's to come, here is the opening to my newest book:

Sean stepped out onto the front porch. Fall was coming; you could always feel it in the air first. He inhaled deep, filling his lungs with the leaf-crisp air. He loved that smell. Decaying leaves he supposed it was; an earthy smell that he couldn’t get enough of. He hoped it wasn’t laced with mold; he could always smell mold in food products. Jill laughed at that because he would open a package of rotten chicken and think it smelled fine. But throw a little mold in there and he wouldn’t touch it. So salmonella ok, mold not ok. Of course he knew neither was good but he guessed his paranoia about mold had something to do with having read too much about it and how it can make you sick and if they are grown in the right conditions, can produce mycotoxins that are poisonous, the worst of which is aflatoxins that cause cancer. So yea, call him paranoid but he had done his research and wanted to steer clear of anything that had the slightest chance of having mold on it.

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Category: Upcoming Events

Published: 30 October 2024

Join me and other authors at the Dover Library on Saturday, Nov. 2, at 2:15 - 3pm where I and a few others will talk about publishing a book. Since I just published my 8th book, I have had experience that any author could use to help in getting their book completed. Also, my publisher, Jim Fontaine from BBD Publishing, will be there with me and will share his expertise as well. 

Look forward to seeing many of you there!