Are you like me? Are you sometimes hungry to read something wonderful, but hesitate to start something new because it’s almost bedtime? You know if you start reading a  novel you might be tempted to stay up late and you…

Today I’m being interviewed on the fabulous blog, Get Lost in a story. Along with the interview you can read an excerpt from my new release, The Blue Breeze, and get a preview of an upcoming release. If you leave…

Stanford University is doing a survey to track publishing trends for indie, house, and hybrid authors. That’s awesome. Less awesome is the fact that they are (in ignorance rather than malice) still using the term “traditional” to describe house publishing.…

Today while I was out shopping a little girl of about three and her mother passed me in the store. The little girl pointed at me and I waited patiently for the usual “why is that lady so big?” It…

Life’s been happening and I’ve been a little overwhelmed by it. The most recent knock was a virus that ate the five novels I’ve been working on. Yep, they were supposedly stored safely in the cloud. It got them anyway.…

Wow! That went by fast. But it was a great summer. The kids were home. That always makes me happy. Too happy maybe, since I wasn’t getting much done with all the wonderful distractions in the house. So I rented…

I’m on pins and needles. In my May post I listed all the things that were happening in May and said that when I got past those events (which were wonderful!) I’d have the rest of the summer to write…

Never discuss religion or politics with your college-age children or there will be tears. Lots and lots of tears. And they will all be yours.

The first four months of 2014 have flown by and May seems set to do the same. I’ll be attending the Don Maass and Les Edgerton workshops, DFWcon, my eldest son’s college graduation (yay!), celebrating several birthdays, moving the youngest…

As my mother and her siblings reached 40, they were fond of repeating the phrase “Life begins at 40”. It was from the title of a self-help book their parents (my grandparents) kept in the house while they were growing up.…