5 a.m.on my days off, and the last few edits are done on "The No-Campfire Girls". If all goes well, we'll order our first print run later today. Now, have to decide how many ...

 Look for an upcoming blog tour in conjunction with the May release of The No-Campfire Girls; thanks to my Google group The Ink-Slingers League for getting the ball rolling on that. We were slowed down in setup work because Emily had a stomach bug, but she feels better and we're still shooting for publication in a few weeks.

I was invited along on a blog tour ride by my writer friend Mari Collier, who was raised in Iowa and yet isn’t dull at all. Thanks for the extra work, Mari - sheesh. But anyone who writes SF, historical fiction, and humor is worth the effort. She now lives in California, yet isn’t strange at all.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4618494. ( Read more... )

            My working title for the Girl Scout story will be “No Campfire, Girls”, which is certainly better than the “Burning Brownies” that someone suggested!

Meanwhile, the working title of my “space opera” novella, which is flirting with becoming a novel, is: “Beowulf: In Harm’s Way”. Or possibly “The Beowulf: In Harm’s Way”, ( Read more... )

You’d think only being able to sleep three or four hours at a stretch would increase my writing time. Unfortunately, some of the other side-effects of Prednisone-nausea, headache, tiredness, and don’t get me started on night sweats-have slowed me down. Worse, I haven’t experienced the side-effect I hoped for: loss of appetite ( Read more... )

I foolishly asked everyone to vote on a title for my “Girl Scout” novella without actually telling anyone what it was about! So here’s a quick blurb, which might very well find its way to the back cover:

Fifteen year old Beth Hamlin is horrified to discover her beloved summer camp must go without campfires this year, thanks to the ( Read more... )

            Okay, so this YA “Girl Scout” novella I’ve been working on is almost ready to go, and it has no Girl Scouts in it ( Read more... )