Books… Series Fiction: What I wish I’d known at the start 9 Dec 2014 I'm in the final stretch of writing the fourth book in my Lexy Cooper mystery series. Now, I'm certainly nowhere near as prolific as many writers, but by the time…
Books… The Hiatus Experiment or Can I Write A Romance in 2 Weeks? 10 Jul 20144 Feb 2015 Yesterday I finished the first draft of Summer Wind. This is the book that was giving me fits just a month ago when at the half-way point I hated the…
Books… The Care and Feeding of a Muse 1 Jul 2014 I absolutely believe in the muse. Not literally a daughter of Zeus, but the creative inspiration that comes from “out there.” Muse is as good a way to describe it as…
Books… Course Correction – When a work-in-progress isn’t working 17 Jun 201417 Jun 2014 Last week I wrote a long post lamenting the shitty state of my new novel Summer Wind. If you want to read the whole boohoo thing it's here. The short…
Writing Breadcrumbs: the art of leaving clues 15 Nov 2013 Writing is hard. Anyone will tell you that. Just sitting down and squeezing your brainthoughts onto a page via your fingers freaking HURTS. And I'm sure that non-fiction has its…