Books… Casting the Novel: Herding Your Characters 13 Sep 2013 I always knew that at some point I would need to create some system for tracking characters in my Lexy Cooper series. I just didn't know it would happen this…
Books… A Crime for Christmas? 9 Sep 2013 Is it too early to start talking about holiday stories? Not if you're trying to write one! Every year I notice something. There are a buttload of Christmas titles released.…
Books… How to make a paperback 28 Aug 201329 Aug 2013 Ever since my first book released for Kindle, people have been asking for a printed version. A 'real' version. They don't have a Kindle, they just don't like ebooks, whatever.…
Games… 9 years, 900 posts – Adventures in Blogging 15 Aug 2013 When I made my most recent blog post, I saw this: Yeah, NINE HUNDRED posts. Crazy, right? I guess not so crazy when you consider that I started blogging on…
Books… Roswell or Bust! A reader-funded research trip 13 Aug 201314 Aug 2013 And now for an experiment in novel research and crowd funding! I've been to every location in the first two Lexy Cooper books Schooled and Pwned. Granted, they weren't all…
Books… Writer meets writing app, falls in love. Words flow. 6 Aug 2013 Friends, I want to tell you about the new love of my writing life. It may be old news to you, it may have been around a while. But to…
Books… Things my proofreader taught me 19 Jul 201319 Jul 2013 I'm a professional writer. By that I mean that since 1995 I have made my living--paid my rent, fed my offspring--by writing. You'd think I'd have words pretty much figured…
Books… Is “easy to read” a good thing? 16 Jul 201316 Jul 2013 First of all, let me say that I have no quarrel with anyone who reviews my books. I love that a) you read my work and b) you took the…
Books… A Deep Breath — Moving on to the Next Book 28 Jun 2013 I began writing the first Lexy Cooper crime novel Schooled on May 3 2012 and finished the first week of August. It came out on November 6. I started noodling…
Books… My book comes out tomorrow and I’m calm 20 Jun 2013 Tonight around 11 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time I will begin the brief process of uploading my crime novel Pwned to Kindle Direct Publishing. Within 12 hours (usually only an hour…