Ok. Using last weeks post to segue into food related euphamisms, I’m talking about when the momentum gets going, how do you share it amid your other life’s duties? Some people would say become organized. That is a project in of itself. But I know it could be done. I think, as with writing, you [...]

I’ve been asked to do a guest speaker spot next month and was hoping you guys could help me out a little. When you’re stalking calmly admiring your favorite author, what kinds of things do you look for? Bookmarks? Pens? Those cute notepads or stickypads? Personally, I’m a postcard collector. Love them. I collect them [...]

This might seem a random topic to blog about, but last week, not far from where I live, a woman was killed during a handbag robbery. Most women carry their lives in their handbag. I know I’m guilty of carrying way more stuff than I need. I thought a refresher of some commonsense rules wouldn’t [...]

Goodmorning!
Over the last week I have discovered something:  I like to write outside.
I don’t know what it is but I get such a thrill, the ideas and thoughts really flow.  I sit on my deck, setting up my laptop on our patio table, with the umbrella up so I’m in the shade.  The kids play [...]

No, I’m not talking about food, although, I am eating while I’m working. And there is butter involved. I am talking about motivation and velocity. You know how they say ‘the more sex you have the more you want’? Well, I don’ t know who they are, but I’ve heard it said. I think the [...]

I love it when I stumble upon something that’s useful to my writing. This week I went to our excellent public library (to return overdue books—bad me). I usually stay downstairs in the addition, where the newest books are displayed. But this time I ventured up the stairs. The original building is vintage and beautiful—lots of [...]

On one of the boards that I’m a member of a lady posted this time sucking device and trust me when I say, it’s a black hole!
However, it can also point out a few things to writers, like what your favorite word to use is in your WIP. Yup, just paste some of your WIP [...]

My characters are eating banana cake at the moment. I like food, and I enjoy reading scenes where characters are eating. I like the historical medieval banquets with the shared trenchers and the Elizabethan pies filled with live birds. Food is something that can be used in characterization. We can have a heroine who enjoys [...]

Goodmorning!
Today’s blog is going to be a little bit of a rant.
Lately I’ve heard some very interesting things from people when they find out I write romance and that I am published.  So today I am disputing each of these heinous allegations!
1.  I write sex books. 

NO!  I do not write sex books.  I write romance.  [...]

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty [...]