Yes. I procrastinate. I’m stubborn and willful, and I don’t always have my nose to the grindstone or my shoulder to the wheel. In fact, I can often be found staring off into space, a posture—I assure my children—that means Read more
GRL Registration As I write this, GRL Registration is over by exactly 24 hours. In the past day, I have seen joy at the anticipation of reunion, disappointment and animosity over the process, and fear of the unknown. For those Read more
My book Floodgates came out yesterday and so I wanted to give you an excerpt of one of the parts that I so enjoyed writing. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ We were sitting there quietly talking about Mom for some reason when the door Read more
To Be Named Later I recently got an edit that made me a laugh a little. “You waste a lot of titles naming chapters. You may want to consider using numbers instead.” Well, I guess you could think about it Read more
Right before I started this blog post, I’d just trashed a couple thousand words—actually the beginning of an entire chapter. Why? Because it didn’t work. I’d started from the wrong POV. From the wrong point. Pretty much the wrong everything Read more
There have been many times when I have agonized over the image for a book cover. More than once I have looked at what I was sent, stared at it, and screwed my face into a look of complete detestation. Read more