How’s the writing going?
Summer is such a great time. Everyone is more relaxed. People go on vacation, traveling or just hanging out at the beach or the pool. You meet a lot more people than you normally do during the year. I...
View ArticlePet Peeves
This month’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group question: What are you pet peeves in reading/writing/editing? I had to think long and hard about this because I don’t think I have any pet peeves when it...
View ArticleSurprising Even Myself
I have to say I love this monthly blogging for the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. There are always interesting prompts — trying to figure out what to write about each week was ultimately what made me...
View ArticleDown? Get up!
Along with a great number of writers (and just people in general), I suffer from depression every so often. It’s not persistent or severe enough for me to feel like I need to seek help from a...
View ArticleHear an excerpt from An Exotic Heir
Love audio books? Me too! But they’re so expensive! Since An Exotic Heir is now free to download (wherever you normally buy ebooks), I thought it would be fun to post audio clips of me reading the...
View ArticleSocial Media and the Author
A Response to MJ Rose’s article in the IWSG Newsletter. I read Ms. Rose’s article in this month’s newsletter with interest. I’ve been working on doing better with my marketing knowing that too many...
View ArticleWorkin’ on it
This month’s IWSG blog topic is to think back to this year past and decide if I could have done something better. Well, I could always have done better. I know that I took way too long to write Through...
View ArticleAnd it starts again
I may be crazy, but after a year’s hiatus, I’m going to start blogging again. I’m not even sure what I want to blog about, but I definitely want to give it a go. I think it’s going to be a round up of...
View ArticleImportant Questions for a New Year
Orna Ross, of the Alliance of Independent Authors, asks authors to think about these questions in her first post for the new year in the ALLi newsletter: What do I offer to readers that is different...
View ArticleImportant Questions Continued
Last week I started off this blog by answering two questions posed by Orna Ross in her first blog post of the year: What do I offer to readers that is different and unique? Why should readers read my...
View ArticleWord for Writers
Join me in an on-line seminar: Word for Writers! I’m so excited to be trying out a new (for me) medium! This is going to be a live 1 1/2 hour seminar (recorded for those who can’t make it in person)...
View ArticleCan you do too much research?
I love it when an idea for a book turns into a research project. But what to do with all that you learn when ninety percent of the research doesn’t actually make it into the book? That’s what happened...
View ArticleThat First Chapter
I think I mentioned here before that I’m beginning to plot out a whole new light, sweet Regency romance series. Well, can I just say on the record here that I am super glad that I’m plotting everything...
View ArticleOn Deadlines
Self-publishing deadlines: where do they come from? Well, from you, dear indie-author. What that means, if you’re anything like me, is that they’re too soon and you probably put too much pressure on...
View ArticleMake it a great first date
The first question I ask when I get to the end of a first chapter—either in a book I’m reading or writing—is “why should I care?” If the answer’s not obvious, there’s something wrong. The first chapter...
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