<h1 class="page-title">Month: June 2021</h1>

Writing During A Heat Wave

If you watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you may recall a scene where she’d just saved the world (again) and she told Giles how badly her brain was fried. Giles started poetically waxing on about the events that had just occurred and Buffy looked at him and repeated, “Fire bad, tree pretty.” That’s how …

Writing Process

Tough Job

It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. What’s a tough job you ask? Finding suitably yummy men to be on my book covers. All these naked muscle-y chests… what’s a girl to do. Honestly, it’s a good thing my husband doesn’t have a clear view of my computer screen. I’m not so …

Writing Process

New Editing Toy

I’m going to geek out here for a minute, so I’ll beg your indulgence. I’ve been going cross-eyed while editing the Haythen Construction Series. My brain definitely leans toward story-telling and away from things like apostrophes and not overusing my ‘buts’. Seriously, the number of wayward apostrophes when I type is unreal. Some day I’ll …

Life

Getting To Know Me

I live with my husband near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I’ve adopted his family as my own and manage to have (for the most part) avoided being the evil step-mother. Not so hard, since his kids are grown with families of their own. Through the pandemic, I started writing again. It had always been my …

Writing Process

Creating An Identity

As I get ready to publish for the first time in almost a decade, I realize much has changed. All of the popular novelists do newsletters and blogs and interact on social media. These were new, unexplored and wild frontiers last time I tried to do this… and I do want to be one of …