Counting Down to Zen

I’m diverging from my usual writing-related posts to share a little Zen. Some of you may know that my husband and I are quitting our day jobs in December 2019 and heading out for a six-month beach sailing trip to Read more

Hurricane Florence : Battening down the hatches

As I write this, my home state of North Carolina, as well as South Carolina and Virginia are getting ready for an unwelcome visitor: Category 4 Hurricane Florence. I’ve written a stories with hurricanes in them (Take Two, set on Read more

How to Recharge Your Creative Self, by Shira Anthony

Happy July, everyone! I hope you’re having a great reading summer. I’ve caught up on a few books, watched some new anime, and I’ve been working on plotting and writing the sequel series to the Mermen of Ea, the Dragons Read more

Inspiration and Love in the City of Lights

By the time you read this, I’ll be touching down in Paris, one of my favorite cities. I’m headed to Livre Paris, the Paris book fair, to help out at the Dreamspinner Press table with Ariel Tachna and Nikki Bennett. Read more

Paris Salon du Livre 2018 – Meet Me March 16th and 17th in the City of Lights

I can’t tell you how excited I am to be heading to Paris in March for Paris’s biggest book fair, the Salon du livre (translates as “room of the book”). The fair is held every year and is a huge Read more

Three Micro Resolutions for a Happier 2018: It’s About the Little, Teeny-Tiny Things

Every year about this time, people start talking about New Year’s Resolutions. I personally did a terrible job of looking forward to 2017. Like most of the people I know, I dreaded what would happen with the new administration in Read more