As a new writer, or relatively new, because I’ve been writing my whole life, but I digress: As a new writer and a member of writing communities, I still get fangirl on some fellow authors.  What am I talking about?
Well, I love to get emails from others. It’s the virtual way where authors talk to [...]

And I don’t think it’s fun. Yeah, I know, somebody out there is probably whining about my whining and being a lack of a team player and bad-sport and whatever, but I don’t care. E-mails that tell me I will have up-teem years of bad luck if I don’t forward it to my closest 20 [...]

I have just spent the last day completely reorganising my office and writing workspace.  I like to think of myself as an organised person - I make lists for everything, have just the right spot for everything, and I am always coming up with more efficient ways of doing things (or at least I think [...]

Thus far, I’ve been blessed to not have any nasty reviews of my books. I’m sure people have said nasty things about them, but they haven’t spread the news around the Internet.
 
This week, however, a friend of mine got a review on Amazon that was just vicious. The reviewer obviously didn’t get the point of [...]

Before beginning a new writing project, even before I know the whole story (I am a total plotter…not pantsing here!)  I HAVE to sketch out my characters, so today I thought I’d share the process with you.
 
It starts off with an idea, for example, my latest WIP is a contemporary that just came to me:  [...]

So after listening to me yammer on for two days straight, I’m going to let you all craft this blog and open it up for questions.  Ask me what you will about writing, submitting, the business, craft, whatever.  Really, ask away.  I’ll be watching the blog for the next two days ready to answer.

So after yesterday’s rant and downer on contests, let’s get to work on what I love most, creating characters. I love my characters. I love spending time with them, mulling over the problems facing them, how they are going to respond, but most importantly, how are they going to respond and why do [...]

You all know that I am going to give you three days of my usually brutally straightforward advice about writing. Warm milk, singing Kumbaya together, and nodding agreement that your Roman Vampire time travel contemporary erotic, yet traditional romance is going to be a blockbuster is not what you are going to get from [...]

I have been lucky enough to have been able to attend three conferences in the last month. In fact, as you read this, I am in Melbourne, Australia, attending the Romance Writers of Australia’s annual conference. I have also been to San Francisco for RWA National, and Auckland, New Zealand, for Romance Writers of New [...]

I can see the Summer-can’t-end-soon-enough rant has already been covered, so I can’t do that one. It would basically be a repeat, sans the schedule and no cool pictures. No schedule here, just a lot of free time to drive me batty with. Darling child that he is, I’m still the only “entertainment center” available.
So [...]