I wish I had a good excuse for dropping off the map the way I have.  Most of my time has been taken up with work, but I also worked through the edits on my novel.  It was a lot of work and I’m still not as happy with it as I had hoped to be.

When I was done with it I turned around and wrote a 10 K Christmas story.  It was fun creating something ( Read more... )

The final corrections on Accrocher Ses Pantins (Hanging ‘em Up) story four in the Rebuilding Years series are in.

Also I finished working on all of the editor’s suggestions for Wings and Blades.

Between September and October I will have two short stories and a novel coming out in e-format.  Things are going to be hectic for the next few months ( Read more... )

I keep thinking that I am going to write a blog post, but I never seem to get to it.  Got me as to why but I’ve been getting home and then watching television and then doing some P.T. and then going to bed.  I think I am caught up on books I was reading to review, so that is a weight off of my mind.

I’ve been working on the final edits on Wings ( Read more... )

... but we endorse the same shoe.

Probably a year and a half ago I started using ‘minimalist running shoes’ to help with my back/leg/foot pain and numbness. I found a pair I really loved and ended up having them on every day for a year before I had to replace them.

While doing reviews of books on Amazon I decided to write a review of my shoes and ( Read more... )

I have conversations about this pretty often.  I write a lot of short stories, some of them are linked.  I just finished a four story series for my publisher.  I don’t write many novels.  I guess that makes me an oddity.

My friends often point to the novel I sold and say, “Look that proves you can write a novel.”

I’ve known I can write a novel for ( Read more... )

Comment to this post saying "FIVE!" and I will pick five things I would like you to talk about. They might make sense or be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself, hopefully for the rest of eternity!

muses_circle gave me these

1. Your current novel ( Read more... )

Frist off I have to apologize for disappearing for 3 weeks.  No excuse I’m trying to post once a week (as well as trying to get my author facebook and twitter up and running) but I’m just not in the habit yet, I think of topics I want to talk about and then forget.

I got good news at the end of last week, both my fourth story in my hyena hockey ( Read more... )

The weekend of May 18th to 20th I went to the Pennwriters Conference in Lancaster, PA.  The Keynotes were Hank Phillippi Ryan and Maria V. Snyder.

First off my mom and I write very different genres so we’ve never been anywhere together, she has her mystery things and I have my speculative fiction things, and this wasn’t just the first time we went ( Read more... )

Well really only for the past two weeks.  I know that I’ve been woefully absent since the middle of the month and I didn’t say I was going on a hiatus.  I know that I should tell people when I am going away, but I never seem to manage it.

For four days I was at Pennwriters with my mother.  It was a lot of fun and I got to meet great people, some ( Read more... )

So my question today is where do you create?  I was going to say write, but there are artists and musicians on my friends list as well.

This can be taken in two ways I could mean ‘where do you sit to create?’ or I could mean ‘where is your work set?’

I guess I probably mean both.

When creating is easy for me I can do it sitting on my bed or in ( Read more... )