Cancer 10 things I got wrong about breast cancer 13 Oct 201513 Oct 2015 So here I am, a handful of days after my lumpectomy, still waiting for the pathology report which will presumably tell us either "We got it all" or "There's still…
Writing Billable Hours – A Writer’s Day 4 Feb 20154 Feb 2015 Okay, novelists don't really have billable hours. I worked in a PR agency for a brief, miserable period and keeping track of how much time I spent on every little…
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…
Writing 5 Great Reasons to Publish Short Content 23 Sep 2014 When you’re trying to establish a brand, it’s important to build your series as quickly as you can without sacrificing quality or sanity. If you have a good response to…
Assholes… Writing great bad guys 10 Sep 2014 Just as you shouldn't write a perfect protagonist who is good at everything and always makes the right choice, don’t make your antagonist perfectly evil. Everyone has something not-terrible about…
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… Spoilers and Recaps – What series readers want 3 Jun 2014 This is a slice of the information gathered in the survey I posted about last week, and the data I found most useful and surprising. As someone who writes a…
Books… B.Y.O.P – Be Your Own Publisher 10 Mar 2014 I've been blogging about my trials and errors in this writing thing for a couple years now. From a post about discovering Kindle Direct Publishing and unearthing a long-lost novel,…
Writing Working with an Editor and Proofreader 3 Feb 201431 Jan 2014 Right now my most excellent Empress of Editing Marti McKenna is deep in the weeds of a second pass on my upcoming book Griefed, getting ready to hand off what…
Writing Multiple POVs: Keeping it real 21 Jan 2014 My first book The Sleepless Nanny, was written in the first-person from the protagonist's point of view. It's basically the easiest, most natural way to write, and a good place…
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