I had a letter this morning from a reader of this blog, wondering if it had been discontinued. In fact, the exact opposite is true–I’ve given up blogging elsewhere (except for Writer Unboxed once a month) to bring my focus back here. My web mistress is busy behind the scenes doing a facelift and I’ve […]
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Boot Camp For Writers
Writer’s Digest Novel Writing Conference, August 15 – 17, 2014, Los Angeles, CA Plot Your Novel’s Course Move closer to your goal of completing a tightly crafted novel that will capture and keep the attention of publishers and readers. Learn from industry-savvy speakers and deepen your knowledge in focused sessions. All this is brought to […]
Wild Fertility
A writing blog today….. I’m in the midst of an enormously fertile period. I’m writing in several genres, including a non-fiction project. This morning I awakened to write the next scene in a book that will eventually become a Barbara O’Neal book. There is soup and a lost child and dogs, but the underpinnings of […]
The end of one cycle…the beginning of the next
We are working on a new title for my next book. I’m nearly finished with the copy edits, and cover discussions have begun. That means it’s time for me to think about what’s next. I’ve started working on ideas for new books. This is–by far–the most enjoyable stage of the process until I have a […]
Cool off with In The Midnight Rain
On special this week at Amazon: IN THE MIDNIGHT RAIN: Ellie Connor is looking for answers when she arrives in Gideon, Texas to stay in the guest house of Internet pal Blue Reynard. She’s researching a book about the mysterious disappearance of a woman blues singer in the 1950’s, but she’s also seeking answers to […]
How One Writer Persisted
Here is the story of a novel. It was written in the wee hours before dawn before the writer’s family awakened and needed to be herded off to school. Before the work of the day began, before the brain was sullied by the noise of news and commerce and obligations. And when it was finished, […]
Waiting…..
In the moment…… It is a late Friday afternoon in February. My dog Jack is snoring on the floor behind me. My old cat Athena is comfortably sitting in the sunshine , peering out at the world. The kittens randomly leap on the back of the chair, up to the desk, over to the bookcase, […]
Ready, set….READ!
Ambling around the internet this morning, I found this challenge from Book Chick City: Since I’m often setting goals like “go to the gym seven hundred times a week,” the idea of reading a hundred books of FICTION in a year sounds like a dream. I bet you read that much most of the time […]
The Fruit of our Lives
Posted at Writer Unboxed this morning As I write this, it is the last morning of summer. My yearling kittens are crouched in the garden, watching a squirrel on the fence make his way through the face of a sunflower, methodically plucking out striped seeds with his tiny hands, cracking their shells, devouring the kernels. […]
Three Reader Favorites now available!
Three of my most beloved novels from my contemporary romance days are now available in ebook format. The Last Chance Ranch Amazon Kindle Barnes and Noble Nook Smashwords A full length contemporary romance. Weary and battered after a stint in prison for killing her abusive husband, Tanya has been dreaming of the day she could […]